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All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Alida, SAP, Segment, Swaarm, Dun & Bradstreet, MessageGears and Sageflo, Pixability, Bonzai and Informatica

Seven West Media (SWM) is making a big data play, touting its first-party data offering with new audience insights, activation and measurement solution within 7REDiQ, along with second-party data partnerships and its new 2021 content lineup.

Google has been hit with an antitrust lawsuit by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in search and search advertising, in what the DOJ says is a violation of US antitrust laws.

McDonald’s Australia has appointed Chris Brown as VP and CMO for the iconic fast food business. With over 23 years’ experience leading creative and digital agencies in Australia and overseas, Chris will join the McDonald’s Australia senior leadership team, reporting directly to CEO, Andrew Gregory.

This festive season is set to be a Covid Christmas, marked by less spending, less socialising and less traveling internationally, although there’ll be an increased focus on exploring local attractions, according to new Pureprofile research.

Technology brands have dominated the top global brands of 2020 ,with Apple coming in first place, followed by Amazon and Microsoft, according to Interbrand’s 21st annual Best Global Brands report.

Australian marketers have almost universally shifted their priorities to focus on marketing-led growth, marketing efficiency and improving ROI, according to a new report.

With the impending demise of third-party tracking cookies, marketing through contextual targeting is gaining a renewed importance. CMO talks to several in the industry about the opportunities and challenges in the shift to contextual marketing.

CMOs will need to drive customer obsession within their firms, rather than simply guiding ad procurement and promotions, according to Forrester’s 2021 prediction. This means marketing teams will need to put the customer at the center of everything they do, including leadership, strategy and operations.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Tapad, Adobe, SurveyMonkey, SAP, SugarCRM, Shogun, Claravine and Unqork

Twilio is set to acquire customer data platform, Segment, for approximately US$3.2 billion, a deal analysts say reflects the maturity of the CDP space and will be one of many such acquisitions to come.

Planning, embracing change and transforming familiar approaches will be critical to success for B2B leaders, according to Forrester's SiriusDecisions research team​. And leaders across the revenue engine will need to accelerate the shift toward digitisation, buyer-centricity and customer obsession.

Creativity is about coming up with the ideas but data is the key to assessing if something is working,​ says Netflix co-founder and its first CEO, Marc Randolph.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from SAP, Tru Optik, Lytics, RollWorks, Sendinblue, UPshow, AcuityAds and Tableau

The Iconic has chosen Optimizely as its experimentation platform to help ensure its customer engagement and conversion testing is as impactful as possible while avoiding site performance issues.