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From ZoomInfo → The Trade Desk → CTV: Your ABM Data Is Now a Media Network

How identity, activation, and attention are finally merging — and why the winners will be the teams who stop DIY’ing their media architecture.

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Mike Harty
Dec 15, 2025
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There’s a quiet shift happening in B2B that almost nobody is talking about.

Not in press releases.

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Not in vendor webinars.

Not even in the loudest ABM influencer threads.

But it’s everywhere if you look closely:

  • ZoomInfo’s firmographic taxonomies inside The Trade Desk

  • 6sense audience syncing straight into CTV and omnichannel pipes

  • FunnelFuel cleanrooming account, persona, intent and firmographic data into curation and DSPs like TradeDesk

  • Demandbase pushing ABM audiences into Reddit Ads Manager

  • ID5 + TrueData bulking up the identity layer behind all of this

  • And CTV quietly becoming the highest-ROI channel in enterprise B2B - a lot more to come on this one because it’s really caught my eye

A new architecture is emerging — one where your GTM data is the media network.

Not metaphorically. Literally.

Your ABM vendor identifies the accounts.

Your identity vendor resolve…

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