It’s a light news day, Dear Reader, so I’ll stoop to some mild click-baiting with a minor item that puts Adobe in the headline. That being: Adobe has added AMP support to its Campaign email engine. AMP is an open standard that lets emails contain interactive elements such as forms and dynamically updated content. That’s legitimately interesting, although Adobe isn’t the only vendor to support it.

Customer experience vendors highlight their data unification features because disjointed data is a major pain point for their buyers. This Forrester study commissioned by Deloitte Digital makes exactly that point, finding that companies have an average of 28 customer data sources and are struggling to bring them together. Leaders are significantly more likely than laggards to bring customer data management in-house.

Just over one-third of marketers plan to either buy a new CDP (21%) or replace an existing one (13%) this year, according to this Optimove survey. Unfortunately, it doesn’t report how many have a CDP already in place, which would put the other values in perspective. It does seem that CDPs are a relatively low priority: they rank sixth on the list of new systems and eighth on the list of systems to replace.