And then there’s first-party data, everybody’s favorite crush.  This Dun & Bradstreet report that finds it’s the top go-to-market priority (40%) among a cross-section of B2B sales, marketing, and data leaders, even ranking ahead of new customer acquisition (34%).  Data accuracy is their top obstacle to data-driven success.

Mobile gaming is one of the industries that are stealing time from search and social activities.  So it’s a bit surprising to see this estimate from data.ai (formerly App Annie) that consumer spend on mobile gaming will drop by 5% in 2022 and 3% in 2023.  Note this is an estimate of what consumers will spend; spending on mobile advertising is still expected to rise by 7.5% next year, outpacing other ad media.

With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).