Since no day is complete without a no-code story, we’ll report that no-code software development platform Unqork has raised a $207 million Series C, bringing their total to $365 million. Maybe now they can afford another “u”.
CDP vendor Segment has agreed to be bought by communications platform Twilio, according to a Forbes report. Price is set at $3.2 billion. Segment would be by far the largest CDP vendor to be acquired. See this Customer Experience Matrix blog post for more analysis.
Many proposed replacements for third party cookies rely on Web site visitors logging in during their visits. This means marketers will have to pay more attention to companies like Okta, whose strength is the sort of identity management traditionally associated with logging in employees and other computer system users. Okta had several announcements today, including a Salesforce partnership for Work.com, new SDK for biometric-based, passwordless authentication, and no-code option to build identity management workflows. The rise of no-code also reflects the rejection of expertise.
Products to connect ad impressions with sales results are usually limited to one ad type and one sales channel. You can add VideoAmp and TransUnion to that list: they’ve launched an offering that links VideoAmpt’s TV viewer data with TransUnion’s TruAudience purchase data. VideoAmp can also use the data to optimize media plans in real time.