CDP Institute

This very interesting Salesforce survey of IT leaders reports that just 22% deploy purchased applications without customization, compared with 65% who customize apps before deployment and 49% who develop apps internally.  Other tidbits: the average number of apps in an enterprise grew from 843 in 2021 to 1,061 in 2023, a 25% increase; during that period, the percentage of integrated apps has remained steady at 29%; and 46% of enterprises have a composable design strategy and 43% plan to add one in the next 18 months.

When Dentsu asked CMOs to name their biggest problem, budget headed the list while technology and measurement came in last.  But the answers were different relating to innovation, where technology implementation ranked as the top challenge.  You won’t be surprised that CMOs are optimistic about generative AI; you might be surprised that just 6% worry it will have negative consequences, compared with 32% of consumers.

At just under six hours per day, traditional TV viewing is far from dead.   Still, this Comcast study reports 21% of advertisers are reducing their linear budgets – far more than social, streaming, or addressable TV.  The bigger news is that 73% of marketers are using addressable TV, 87% are using first party data, and last year saw a 51% increase in audience-based targeting.

Two-thirds of publishers (65%) don’t think first party data or alternative IDs will solve the problems of cookie deprecation, according to this Emodo report.  But just 40% rate it as a top priority and only 19% are prioritizing it when evaluating ad sales partners.  Top publisher priorities are the economy (57%) and attention metrics (52%), with less attention to supply path optimization (30%), tech costs (30%), sustainability (27%), and the growth of connected TV (26%).

No one likes to spend money on “made for advertising” (MFA) sites that have few actual visitors, although the outrage seems stronger among publishers than advertisers, who see the waste as a cost of doing business.  Still, for the advertisers who do care, NewsGuard has just launched a service to let advertisers build lists that exclude MFA sites from their campaigns or build lists of non-MFA sites to include.