Remember when being “mobile first” seemed so important? That is so 2018. Connected TV (CTV) devices are now where it’s at, according to ad asset management vendor Extreme Reach. Their latest report shows that CTV served more video ad impressions (44%) than mobile devices (30%) in the final quarter of 2018. The mobile share actually peaked in Q4 2017 at 39%, when the CTV share was just 16%.
Turbo Systems has launched “the first universal, no-code engagement platform for the enterprise”. According to the company, it has the “potential to disrupt the very nature of how applications are built, managed, and consumed” by enabling users with ”zero developer expertise” to create “dynamic, highly personalized enterprise applications” on top of existing ERP, CRM, and human resources systems. I’m skeptical. Then again, the company has raised $8 million to fund the revolution.
Marketing Evolution combines data from multiple sources, but it’s not a CDP because it works at the campaign rather than customer level. One thing they share with CDPs is a need for quality inputs. So it’s relevant that they’ve just added automated features to assess and validate quality as new data is loaded into the system.
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.