Customer Data Platforms are supposed to be good at connecting with other systems, so it’s always a bit unclear whether a new integration is newsworthy. But let’s lead today with an integration between the Lytics CDP and Salesforce Marketing Cloud. It’s interesting because uses Salesforce as a delivery engine for Lytics campaigns.
It seems the News Gods were too busy with their Halloween costumes to make anything happen on Thursday. So let’s roll back to Wednesday, when marketing analytics vendor TapClicks bought reporting tool builder Megalytic. Data gathered by TapClicks’ 200+ connectors will now feed Megalytic dashboards.
Halloween is the right day to announce a “headless digital experience cloud”, which sounds a bit scary. It’s like a headless CMS (meaning you can access its functions via APIs in addition to a conventional user interface) but with more functions. Bloomreach says they have the first one. Trick or treat?
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.