Last May, Comcast NBCUniversal, Charter Communications, and ViacomCBS became co-owners of Blockgraph, a data platform for digital video ad targeting and measurement. They’ve just partnered with attribution platform TVSquared on a measurement solution that isn’t as comprehensive as the WFAs but is considerably closer to being available.
There’s too much bad news in the world right now for me to add more, Dear Reader. So I’ll sneak back to last week to report that programmatic advertising platform Stirista is buying Nikaza, a location-based measurement platform. Stirista has an identity graph that lets advertisers target customers across channels. Feel better?
Here’s a frightening tidbit: 35% of U.S. consumers told The Harris Poll that they would be happy if they never made an in-store retail purchase again. Seventy percent said they prefer zero human contact during shopping experiences. Presumably preferences will evolve after the pandemic ends but you do have to wonder how deep these scars will be.
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.