Customer Data Platform.
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A platform that unifies customer data from multiple sources into a single persistent profile, accessible to other marketing tools.
A Customer Data Platform (CDP) is a technology that collects, unifies, and activates customer data from multiple sources—website behaviour, email interactions, CRM records, offline purchases, app usage, and third-party data—into a single, persistent customer profile. Unlike a CRM (which is primarily for sales interaction management) or a DMP (which handles anonymous, third-party ad targeting data), a CDP is designed to handle known, first-party data at scale and make it available to any connected marketing tool.
What CDPs Enable
CDPs enable: accurate cross-channel attribution by linking the same customer's interactions across devices and channels; real-time personalisation powered by unified customer profiles; advanced segmentation that combines online and offline data; audience syndication to advertising platforms using first-party audiences; and data governance that ensures privacy compliance across all downstream uses of customer data.
CDP vs. DMP vs. CRM
The key distinctions: CRMs manage relationships with known contacts in a sales context; DMPs (Data Management Platforms) handle anonymous, third-party cookie data for advertising—fading in relevance as third-party cookies disappear; CDPs unify first-party known and anonymous data into persistent profiles for marketing activation. Many organisations use all three, with the CDP as the central data layer that feeds the others.
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