We all know that 2/2 is National Repeat Yourself Day, but let’s celebrate early by reporting things we’ve reported before. We’ll start with this Nielsen study that finds just 28% of marketers make data quality their top priority, ranking it behind audience targeting, ad creative, and reach. In fact, Nielsen says marketers are creatures of habit who do many irrational things. We are shocked.
Mobile marketing attribution and ad fraud prevention AppsFlyer has raised a $210 million Series D, bringing total funding to $294 million. The system integrates with several thousand other products, opening the door to more than just analytics. In fact, they already provide audience segmentation, treading gently onto CDP turf.
Enough about money. Let’s worry instead about what we’ll do when privacy rules prevent us from targeting ads with individual data. GumGum’s got you covered, with a system that will automatically categorize content so you can match your ads to what people are reading. It will also avoid those awkward brand safety discussions when your ads appear in the wrong places.
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.