Improvado pulls together advertising, customer, and product data and sends it to a data warehouse, business intelligence system, or anywhere else.  This might qualify it as a CDP, but the focus is on advertising performance measurement and company prefers to call itself a “Revenue Data Platform” instead.  They just raised a $22 million Series A, bringing total funding to $30 million.

Consumers are split almost evenly in their attitudes towards personalized marketing.  Frontier Communications found that nearly half found targeted advertising annoying (46%) and invasive (36%) while a similar sized group find it useful (42%) and enjoyable (39%).  Along the same lines, 28% said they’d pay $50 per month or more for ad-free social media while 27% wouldn’t pay a penny.

Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.