TV manufacturers offer a new path to attribution enlightenment. We reported last week that Samsung had launched a product to track ad consumption, measure results, and make incremental buys to meet coverage targets. Vizio just launched something similar.
For one brief, if delusional, moment, marketers thought adtech had made accurate performance measurement a reality. Loss of third-party cookies and device IDs shattered the illusion. The gold-standard alternative has always been controlled experiments to measure incremental results, but that’s been too hard to execute. Measured just raised $21 million to make it easier. On average, they find 40% of media investments are ineffective.
Third-party cookies aren’t entirely dead yet, at least according to TikTok. They just added a requirement for advertisers who use their site conversion pixel to pass them third-party cookie data, improving TikTok’s own targeting and attribution capabilities. It seems pretty retro but maybe TikTok knows something the rest of us do not.
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.)