Zeta Global and Dun & Bradstreet are combining their data to enable business marketers to target business contacts based on consumer data including purchase intent, behaviors, transactions, and location. Audiences combining D&B business information with Zeta Global consumer data will be sold by both companies, with a special focus on giving small businesses easy access to advanced marketing capabilities.
Brave is about to give Google Search, Bing, and other browsers a run for their money with the beta release of the company’s new search engine, which will become the default for the Brave browser by the end of the year. The search engine runs off community-curated open ranking models to avoid algorithmic bias and censorship and does not rely on other search engines or providers. It will also allow a community, or a single user, to set their own rules and filters, which the company evocatively calls “Goggles,” to... Read More >
Business software information company G2 has raised a $157 million Series D, bringing total funding to $257 million and valuation to $1.1 billion. While best known for its crowd-sourced reviews, the company also helps companies buy and manage their software and offers marketing solutions to software sellers.
Like the determined optimist who tells his boss the factory is on fire by reporting they’ll soon be able to update their equipment, let’s find some silver linings in a batch of gloomy surveys today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with this Fivetran report, which finds that 85% of data leaders say their company has lost money by basing decisions on bad data, and 66% believe their C-suite can’t tell when that happens. The bright side is there’s lots of room for improvement.