Happy International Sloth Day, the traditional day for CDP product announcements. This year is no different. First: Segment is adding low-code ways to gather mobile app events and control downstream data activities, user-managed identity resolution rules, and new features to comply with data privacy regulations.

Amplitude calls itself a “product intelligence platform”, which seems to mean it’s selling customer behavior analytics to product managers. They’ve just introduced a customer journey analysis tool that tracks customer behavior on digital products and finds the events with the highest impact on results like dropping out or converting. Useful.

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.