Let’s just do some straightforward martech news today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with email delivery vendor Validity, which has been on an acquisition binge. They just launched a new platform, Everest, that ties together features from several of their purchases. The company modestly says it will “give marketers everything they need to ensure email success” although it doesn’t include frills like lists, content, or products.
I’m intrigued by this report that citizen cybercriminals can purchase DDoS attacks as a service. But it’s not worth a news item. So instead let’s note that survey data compiler Dynata has integrated its 62 million personal profiles with Google’s Ads Data Hub. ADH, as it’s known to friends, is a sandbox that lets YouTube advertisers analyze their results without seeing any personal data.
In two cases that litigants in the UK and the Netherlands believe could exceed €10BN in collective claims, the companies are being sued for use of third party cookies for ad tracking. The Dutch case, which was filed by The Privacy Collective, is the biggest in the Netherlands related to violation of GDPR. The UK case, which will be presented later this month, is in connection with GDPR and the UK’s Privacy of Electronic Communications Regulation.
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.