With businesses drowning in data but starving for insights, Salesforce bets on AI agents that can simulate outcomes for GTM and pricing scenarios. Mike Pastore on November 9, 2025 Salesforce signed a definitive agreement last week to acquire Spindle AI, an agentic analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to autonomously model agentic scenarios and … Continue reading Salesforce acquires Spindle AI to bolster analytics for Agentforce
Sportradar acquires IMG ARENA to boost global sports data expansion efforts Ross Kilvington Suswati Basu Sports technology company Sportradar has completed the acquisition of IMG ARENA. This acquisition includes the rights to IMG ARENA’s global sports betting portfolio from Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. and OB Global Holdings, LLC. IMG ARENA is a … Continue reading Sportradar acquires IMG ARENA to boost global sports data expansion efforts
Marigold is holding on to its SMB tools like Campaign Monitor and Emma, but its relationship marketing apps are on the move. Mike Pastore on September 30, 2025 Zeta Global announced Tuesday it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Marigold’s enterprise software business, including Marigold Loyalty, Cheetah Digital, Selligent, Sailthru, Liveclicker and Grow. … Continue reading Zeta Global acquires enterprise software business from Marigold
Social drives discovery, but data often gets lost. Klaviyo broke out the checkbook to help fill that gap. Mike Pastore on August 19, 2025 Today, Klaviyo announced the acquisition of Gatsby, a social commerce platform that helps brands convert social media engagement into owned customer relationships. Consumers are increasingly starting their shopping journeys on … Continue reading Klaviyo acquires Gatsby to improve social commerce insight
The company hopes to give marketers better insight into the reasons behind customer behavior. Constantine von Hoffman on July 11, 2025 Amplitude, a leading company in behavior-tracking software and digital analytics, announced it acquired Kraftful, a startup that uses AI to understand customer feedback. Amplitude hopes to now give marketers and product teams a … Continue reading Amplitude acquires Kraftul to improve customer feedback analysis (DD)
Another standalone CDP is off the market, as consolidation continues to hit the space. Mike Pastore on June 18, 2025 Consolidation struck the customer data platform (CDP) market again today, as Supermetrics announced the acquisition of real-time CDP vendor Relay42. Supermetrics calls itself a marketing intelligence platform and helps simplify data integration and management … Continue reading Supermetrics acquires real-time CDP Relay42
Vendors touching customer data keep pairing up as data becomes more essential in the AI era. Mike Pastore on May 2, 2025 The ongoing battle to clean up, unify and activate data led to another acquisition this week, as Fivetran announced it signed an agreement to acquire Census. With the acquisition, Fivetran now sees … Continue reading More consolidation among data tools, as Fivetran acquires Census
The purchase is designed to provide marketers with a platform to manage the entire lifecycle of email campaigns. Constantine von Hoffman on April 11, 2025 Validity announced (May 09, 2025) its purchase of Litmus, an email optimization and testing solutions provider. The acquisition aims to create a more all-encompassing platform for marketers to manage … Continue reading Validity acquires email optimizer Litmus
Another independent CDP is absorbed by a digital experience platform. Kim Davis on January 8, 2025 Composable digital experience platform Contentstack announced the acquisition of Lytics, the real-time CDP founded in 2013. Contentstack’s primary current offering is its headless CMS. Lytics’ first-party data management capabilities are expected to supplement the existing Contentstack Personalize. Capabilities … Continue reading Contentstack acquires CDP Lytics
The move gives the company capabilities that are essential to its new Zero Data AI Cloud platform. Constantine von Hoffman on December 6, 2024 Uniphore announced today that it is acquiring data technology firms ActionIQ and Infoworks. The move is a key part of the company’s new Zero Data AI Cloud, aimed at accelerating … Continue reading Uniphore acquires ActionIQ and Infoworks
