Paid Media & MarTech through the lens of Zenda
Clear analysis on what shifts in the growth ecosystem: platforms, data, martech and judgment.
Product, growth, and technology: the convergence your martech stack hasn't absorbed yet
Product, growth, and technology increasingly run as a single discipline, but most martech stacks are still wired in silos inherited from the previous era. Consolidating cuts friction, and raises vendor dependence by exactly the same amount: there is no free lunch. It matters most for startups and scaleups where speed of learning beats optimizing each layer on its own.
Infillion acquires Catalina: real purchase data now in Programmatic
Infillion acquired Catalina, the world's largest source of deterministic purchase data: 130 million households, 70 retail banners, $600 billion in annual spending tracked. The data will be exclusive to the Infillion platform. For the US programmatic ecosystem, this consolidates verified purchase data within a single DSP. For LATAM, where that infrastructure doesn't exist at comparable scale, the measurement gap widens while retail media investment grows at 28% annually.