LinkedIn will prepopulate advertising forms with data from user profiles, according to this report. The change is positioned as a way to increase response to mobile ads, where data entry by viewers is challenging (unless they’re under 25, which case they type faster on a phone than a keyboard). In reality, it should provide more accurate information and higher conversion rates. Good way to leverage your data, LinkedIn.

Leadspace has launched a B2B “audience management platform”, which combines a company’s own data with third-party data, contact databases, social profiles, intent data, and data on the open web. It includes individuals and companies. Data is updated in real time and made available to other systems for analysis and execution. In other words, it’s a B2B CDP. Leadspace’s original predictive modeling services will be part of the new solution.

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.