One hidden cost of unused martech is the effort that went into installing and integrating it. This Digibee study of large enterprises found that 16% to 25% of IT spend goes to integration, and half the companies rebuild six or more integrations each year. Worse still, 79% of those new integrations cause significant downtime, which can easily cost more than $1 million per hour.

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.