TMW #159 | Wednesday Martech Briefing

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LiveRamp buys Habu, streaming platforms get revenge on Apple, and Salesforce’s AI washing.

Here’s the week in Martech: 

• LiveRamp acquires Habu: Consolidation in the data clean room market.
• Streaming platforms get revenge on Apple: Netflix, Spotify and YouTube won’t build Vision Pro apps. 
• Salesforce’s AI washing: Selling ML as AI.
• Everything else: Indeed expand their ad network, RudderStack’s warehouse-native ML, growth in mobile ad spending, Canva’s decentralized community strategy, and the allocation economy.

 👇 Here’s everything you’ve missed in marketing and tech this week.

📰 Latest Developments

LiveRamp acquires Habu for $200M. Dealmaking is back, baby! Last week, LiveRamp agreed on a deal to acquire the data clean room (DCR) platform Habu. At face value, it looks like a logical purchase to bolster LiveRamp's self-positioning as a leading data collaboration platform, but how exactly do the two platforms fit together? LiveRamp's strength is in bringing together offline and online data, resolving identity and then enabling users to activate in paid media channels. Habu, on the other hand, has an extensive partner network but less capability to activate audiences that have been enriched in their DCRs. An interesting quirk of this deal is that the two platforms are both complementary and competitive. A recent report by the IDC listed LiveRamp and Habu amongst four leaders in the DCR category, meaning this deal is a significant consolidation at the top end of the market. Usually, that would make end-consumers shudder, but given DCRs are ultimately trying to compete with the walled gardens, consolidating for scale is necessary to have a fighting chance. Announcement | IDC Report | Consolidation

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