Why should Fortune 500 marketers get all the attention? Email tech vendor Validity just launched a platform that helps small businesses run better email programs at a lower price. Bundled features include sender reputation monitoring, list validation, and inbox placement reports.
CDPs adoption is significantly above average among high-performing B2C marketing organizations, according to this Loyalty Research Center survey of Fortune 500 marketing leaders. That’s due to a greater focus on first-party data as companies adapt to a cookieless future. Other tidbits: the average company uses seven martech systems, 75% are adding AI use cases, and 66% are sunsetting their DMP.
Smart TV makers are mining their customer data for all it’s worth. Vizio just struck an exclusive deal to share data from 20 million homes with Nielsen, which will use it to validate several of its research panels. As you surely know, Nielsen has been under fire recently for the quality of its TV audience data.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)