Customer Data Platform vendor BlueVenn has acquired LEAP media solutions, which builds marketing databases and runs marketing programs for U.S. media companies. LEAP has long used BlueVenn technology. It’s another example of CDP vendors adding more services.

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.