Healthcare tech vendor Healthgrades, which offers a CDP among other things, has purchased healthcare marketing and CRM vendor Evariant. Head-banging data complexity and rapid change make healthcare a growth area for the CDP industry.

The premise behind all this digital advertising is that consumers will see more relevant ads. Most consumers (82%) agree that’s what they want, according to this DISQO survey, although just half (53%) say they usually get it. Unsurprisingly, irrelevant ads make most people unhappy (57%).

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.