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Amperity Raises $50 Million As Mar Tech Heavyweights Turn To CDPs

Customer data platform (CDP) Amperity announced a $50 million investment round on Monday, bringing its total funding to almost $90 million. A cohort of large venture capital investors, including Tiger Global Management and Goldman Sachs, backed the new Amperity round. “What I think many industry observers see is the opportunity for a multi-billion dollar, blue... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // July 15th, 2019 //

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The Companies Challenging LiveRamp’s Supremacy In Data Onboarding

LiveRamp pioneered data onboarding, the technology to match anonymized online user cookies and mobile IDs to real-world consumers and offline data. But now, LiveRamp must contend with rivals following the trail it blazed. LiveRamp executed a neat financial pirouette last year, when it re-listed on the stock exchange with a market cap of more than... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // July 9th, 2019 //

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Meet ALC, The Data Broker You Probably Didn’t Know Existed (Yet)

ALC may be one of the biggest first-party data companies you’ve never heard of – but that’s about to change. Founded in 1978 as the American List Counsel, ALC started life as a provider of data services to direct marketers, which back then primarily meant developing customized consumer data files to support postal campaigns. But... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 28th, 2019 //

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How Indie CDP Amperity Taps AI On Behalf Of Brooks And Other Brands

Salesforce and Adobe have lately rushed into the customer data platform category. But independent CDPs aren’t standing still. Amperity, a machine learning-focused CDP, lately updated its platform with new AI capabilities that can combine disparate consumer data into unified profiles, said Chris Jones, SVP of product management, who joined Amperity from Microsoft last year. Additionally,... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 27th, 2019 //

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How Much Is Your Data Worth To Facebook, Google And Amazon? Senators Intro A Bill To Find Out

A bipartisan bill proposed Monday by Sens. Mark Warner, D-VA, and Josh Hawley, R-MO, aims to make big tech companies – Facebook, Google, Amazon, et al. – tell users how much their data is worth. The Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data (DASHBOARD) Act – another commendable acronym – would require... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 24th, 2019 //

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How The New Salesforce CDP Could Consolidate Cloud Marketing

Salesforce has big plans for its recently released customer data platform (CDP), Customer 360. The world’s largest CRM and DMP provider is reimagining what enterprise customers need in their mar tech toolkit, Salesforce Marketing Cloud CEO Bob Stutz told AdExchanger at the company’s Connections conference in Chicago this week. Salesforce considers its CDP product to... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // June 20th, 2019 //

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Salesforce And Adobe Dominate The DMP Space, As Oracle Continues To Slip

If you’re a data-management platform (DMP) and your name isn’t Salesforce or Adobe, it’s starting to get pretty chilly out there. Oracle’s BlueKai DMP is a strong third, while Neustar and Lotame continue to chug along – but Salesforce and Adobe undoubtedly lead the pack, at least when it comes to how advertisers think about... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 19th, 2019 //

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Adobe Aims To Beat Salesforce To The Punch With Its CDP, Now In Beta

If you’re a marketing cloud, you’ve suddenly got customer data platform fever. On Monday, Adobe rolled out the beta version of its CDP, housed within the Adobe Experience Platform. Perhaps not so coincidentally, Salesforce will host its Connections conference in Chicago this week, where it’s planning to share more details about its CDP, while Oracle... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 17th, 2019 //

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Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Lattice Engines, Because CDPs Aren’t Just For B2C

Everyone wants to capitalize on the customer data platform craze – even B2B players like Dun & Bradstreet. The commercial database provider announced its plan Thursday to acquire Lattice Engines, a lead gen software and predictive email marketing platform for sales orgs that entered the CDP category a few years ago along with scores of other... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 14th, 2019 //

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Salesforce And Adobe Lead Forrester DMP Wave With Embrace Of Privacy

Forrester’s 2019 DMP Wave focused on how data-management platforms plan to make their products more privacy-safe in an environment with increased pressure from privacy regulation as well as Apple ITP and Firefox ETP. Because of the amount of change going on in the DMP landscape, the analyst firm gave particular weight to a company’s vision.... Continue reading »

by Sarah Sluis // June 13th, 2019 //

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