Finally there’s e-Spirit, a Web content management system that became an omni-channel “digital experience hub”. They just announced an “intelligent content engine” that creates personalized messages by first building a unified customer database and then generating audience segments and product and content recommendations as inputs.
U.S. and UK marketers will spend $34 to $40 billion on technology this year, or roughly 16% of their budgets, according to advertising industry research firm WARC.
Having a hard time telling apart Amperity, TouchCR, and dozens of other CDP vendors? So is everyone else. The CDP Institute is working on it – here’s the latest step in our project to make sense of it all.
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.