NASCAR has nothing on The CMO Survey, whose current cover credits Duke Fuqua, Deloitte, and the American Marketing Association as co-sponsors. The latest edition shares the usual insights into spending trends, management methods, and hiring. Martech fans may be sad to learn that CMOs rank tech and data last among revenue drivers, while placing talent at the head of the list.

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.