Marketing measurement expert Kochava has purchased identity graph builder DigiCenter. The deal will expand the Kochava Collective mobile data marketplace with richer data and added email and cross-device identity coverage. The combined business will have data on more than 1 billion hashed emails and 9 billion devices.
Low-code and no-code system development are often lumped together but this Creatio study highlights that they’re quite different. Actually, it just covers low-code, finding that just 6% of low-code development is done by business users without any IT involvement. It’s a safe bet that many more no-code developers are working outside of IT.
Here are two more bits of identity-related news. Verticast’s Valassis has launched Household Connect, which groups devices into households based on their behaviors and ties them to a physical address. And TVSquared has integrated Foursquare location data to tie TV ads to store visits and foot traffic. Household Connect will enable better ad targeting while the TVSquared enhancement will improve campaign measurement.
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.