Dynamic Yield continues to expand beyond its roots in Web site personalization, adding a feature to send campaign audiences to email, ad networks, call centers, and other channels. Last month’s enhancement let them include offline purchase data to their unified customer profiles. https://www.dynamicyield.com/blog/bridging-online-and-offline-purchase-data-for-personalizationAlthough Dynamic Yield casually refers to having “CDP product”, it’s not clear they meet RealCDP requirements for handling all data types and easily sharing the profiles with other systems.

Digital transformation occupies a meta-hype class of its own. Marketers will be pleased that this Mindtree study found Digital Officers are most successful at improving digital experience. They’ll be less happy to learn that the vast majority of CDOs come from IT (69%), while just 8% come from marketing or sales.

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.