It’s all surveys today, Dear Reader.  We’ll start with NewVantage Partner’s 10th annual study on corporate data initiatives, which finds scant progress towards becoming data-driven.  One hint why: 92% of companies say corporate culture is the main obstacle, but just 13% are making data literacy their top investment priority.

Marketing Intelligence, a new solution from Salesforce, provides always-on ingestion of marketing data. Drawing on the unified data of Salesforce Data Cloud and the support of Agentforce agentic AI, it will deliver actionable insights and recommendations. It will feature a homepage for marketers; paid media optimization as Agentforce automatically pauses low-performing ads; and automatic data enrichment.