Fulcrum SaaS, a campaign CDP that focuses on real-time personalization, announced a $5 million funding round, bringing total funding to $7 million.  Fulcrum makes heavy use of automated segmentation, recommendations, and campaign flows, seasoned with a heavy dose of AI.

Google has granted permission for publishers to use Lotame’s cookieless identifier, Panorama ID, within its Encrypted Signals for Publishers (ESP) program. ESP (get it?) lets publishers share an encrypted ID based on first party data to buy and track audiences. The ID is based on a cross-device identity graph maintained by Lotame and has been adopted by more than 18,000 publishers.

CDP Redpoint Global is launching its Data Readiness Hub, which packages its data quality and identity resolution tools in a real-time environment to automatically update customer profiles as new data becomes available. The aim is to solve quality problems before the data enters critical activation systems. Continuous updates also reduce data preparation time.