Consumer marketing agency V12 has launched the Home Retail Intender Database, which combines data from “hundreds of sources of offline and online data” to identify consumers in-market for specific home retail products. Inputs include online browsing, physical retail visits, and events such as new moves and new children. V12 calls itself a Customer Data Platform although it’s probably more accurate to say that CDP functions are part of their service.
Messaging platform Urban Airship has expanded its geographic reach by acquiring Accengage, which it says is Europe’s largest provider of mobile CRM and push notifications. Urban Airship does similar things but is strongest in the Americas, UK and Nordic countries.
Also at NRF: retail customer data expert dunnhumby has launched a media business that lets retailers sell advertising on in-store signage, point of sale screens, and similar “owned” channels. It will also manage campaigns in conventional channels. In-store media networks are nothing new but it’s still a good way to leverage dunnhumby’s customer data skills.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.