Well, here’s a sad piece of news: 56% of organizations routinely experience high regret over major tech purchases, Gartner reports.  The good news is that some organizations are better at it than others.  The good ones have clear objectives, disciplined processes, move quickly, and include IT teams in the process.

I apologize for that headline, Dear Reader, but do have one relevant factoid: Ebiquity reports that nearly 10% of U.S. programmatic ad spend goes to “made for advertising” web sites, which have high viewability but low quality, suitability, and effectiveness. In other words, clickbait. The global average is just under 8%. Also, 32% of third-party marketing cookies fire before users have a chance to consent and 93% of domains first at least one. So plenty of other people should apologize too.

Incrmntal has released its Explorer platform, which uses “causal AI” to estimate the incremental impact of advertising investments.  What’s magic is the incremental measurements happen without marketers needing to set up incremental impact tests.  The system can also suggest the best place to spend your next ad dollar.