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Data and Analytics Absorb More than 25% of Most Marketing Budgets: Forbes Study

Into pain, are you? Then you’ll enjoy a Forbes Insights report on top pain points related to data-driven marketing strategy.  Culture and management support head the list, followed by technology and internal skills. Funding is less of a problem. In fact, 27% of respondents said they spend more than half their marketing budget on data, up from just 12% a year ago. Another 39% said they spend 26% to 50%, up from 28% last year. That seems crazily high but numbers don’t lie, right?

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Appboy Connects with CDPs and Raises $50 Million

August 14, 2017

Appboy assembles customer data and executes cross-channel campaigns as customers move through different lifecycle stages. They’re big, processing more than 750 million active users per month. They’re getting bigger, having just raised a $50 million Series D, bringing total funding to $95 million. They’re getting more open, having recently announced connectors to feed data to Customer Data Platforms mParticle and Segment, as well as Amplitude and Amazon Redshift.

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Consumers Want Alignment of Physical and Digital Experience: CMO Council Survey

August 10, 2017

Chances are you also haven’t given much thought to physical product packaging, unless that’s your specialty. But the folks at Danaher have, since they own and several businesses related to it. They sponsored a CMO Council survey that found 66% of marketers believe their customers are very sensitive to alignment between physical and digital experience. Oddly enough, they didn’t ask how many actually achieve such alignment. But they did find that changes to physical presentation take much longer than digital changes. Duh.

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Algolia Gives AI Agents Real-Time Access to Salesforce, Adobe Data

May 9, 2025

If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.

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