Online tracking using third-party cookies has long been one of the more questionable aspects of digital advertising. These changes have forced a rethink of digital ad strategies, especially those relating to acquisition and retargeting. They're also driving significant changes to the positioning of data management platforms (DMPs) used to manage digital advertising efforts.

All the latest martech and adtech news from Cal.com, Fulcrum, ActionIQ, Comscore, Instreamatic, DoubleVerify, Owler and Yotpo.

​Ever-more unified customer profile management, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation and comprehensive marketing resource management tools dominated the list of Adobe Experience Cloud product innovations presented at this year’s Adobe Summit.

It’s been another year of growing sophistication across the marketing technology landscape. As artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced automation progress, capabilities being introduced into the ever-growing array of martech stacks and customer engagement technologies is exploding. In the second of our special edition predictions reports, CMO takes a look at what’s in store for marketing technology innovation and utilisation in the coming year.

Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is partnering up with Salesforce to unify its customer data sets and build out a single view of its audiences.

All the latest martech, adtech and customer technology news from Meltwater, OpenText, Braze, Tapjoy, Narrative Science, Tableau, Anyword, NICE, Google and aqfer.

All the latest martech, adtech and customer tech news from InMobi, Genesys, NICE, Neustar, Sprinklr, Brightcove, OpenSparkz and Treasure Data.

Some retail tech companies hope you’ll take it at face value when they tell you how good their solutions are. Others rely on their clients to do it for them. But Australian-born customer data and experience platform, Lexer, has gone one step further to show how strong its tools are, by building its own retail brand.

All the latest martech and adtech news from Intuit, Mailchimp, InMoment, Zeotap, Salesforce, Nielsen, PubMatic, Contxtful, Neustar and MessageMedia.

A lack of data maturity and actionability is hampering utilisation of customer data platforms (CDPs), a new joint study by Epsilon, Adobe and Publicis Groupe and conducted by Forrester Consulting has found.

Building out a unified view of customers and creating increasingly personalised experiences is firmly in the sites of Australian finance and consumer products comparison website, Canstar, thanks to adoption of a customer data platform (CDP).

Customer data management, reporting and actionability was firmly in the spotlight this week for Adobe as the vendor unveiled a new approach to its customer data platform (CDP) offering and journey analytics and first-party data sharing capabilities.

In 2021 savvy marketers will continue to embrace creative ways of connecting with consumers to build awareness and drive demand through online touchpoints and digital insights in their campaigns. We explore the major ingredients that will help drive digital marketing success in the New Year.

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.

Having a plan for how you’re going to use customer data, an ability to action it, and a lifecycle approach to customer engagement are all vital in building a successful customer data strategy.

For a new streaming service in a competitive environment, Kayo has gone from 25 per cent prompted awareness to 80 per cent in just 12 months – something it puts down to the Aussie love of sport, plus some exceptional marketing by the Kayo team.

​There is a massive opportunity for brands to engender even more consumer loyalty, as the true potential of data and the harnessing of technologies like customer data platforms (CDPs) and artificial intelligence (AI) become apparent in the coming years.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Salesforce, Confirmit, BlueVenn, Leanplum, QMS Media, Automation Anywhere, Verint and Adobe, and NetOpt

The customer data platform (CDP) industry continues to grow apace, with 14 new vendors and US$236 million in cumulative funding added to the ecosystem in the last six months.

Most marketers are planning on switching their customer data platform (CDP) in the next 12 months, despite being happy with their current provider, a new report has found.