I don’t know about your team, but people around here are bored enough that they’ve started scraping wax off the kitchen floor to see what color tile is underneath. If you’re looking for a marginally more productive activity, MartechTribe has released an interactive martech landscape that shows how often different products are used together. Hours of fun and it won’t hurt your knees.
If data isn’t captured then is it really data? It’s not quite as perplexing as why we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway, but this Seagate study does raise the question, since their estimate that 68% of data isn’t used includes 44% of data that goes uncaptured. Lots of other, probably more useful information here, including top five obstacles to using data (all relevant to CDPs) and that two-thirds of respondents think their company’s data security is inadequate. Also interesting regional comparisons if that’s helpful.
Finally, we have a promise from video ad platform LoopMe that your ads will never appear near hateful content. Users get a range of rules to block content topics, sites or apps and to use third-party brand safety services. Sadly, those are far from perfect and it’s not clear that LoopMe is doing anything extra. We also don’t know what happens if they fail to meet their “promise” to keep your ad from appearing in the wrong place.
Just over one-third of marketers plan to either buy a new CDP (21%) or replace an existing one (13%) this year, according to this Optimove survey. Unfortunately, it doesn’t report how many have a CDP already in place, which would put the other values in perspective. It does seem that CDPs are a relatively low priority: they rank sixth on the list of new systems and eighth on the list of systems to replace.