It’s hard to imagine that anyone who reads this newsletter hasn’t already heard, but Adobe announced an agreement yesterday to purchase B2B marketing automation vendor Marketo for $4.75 billion. Seller was Vista Equity Partners, which bought Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 billion. Adobe gets 5,000 customers in B2B marketing, where it has had little presence. Adobe comments suggest Marketo will stay separate from Campaign, Adobe’s B2C marketing automation system.

CDP vendor RedPoint Global has released a packaged solution for retail banking, its latest industry-specific solution. Components include single customer view, retail banking data model and templates, turnkey connectors for marketing channels, preconfigured reports, and real time decision tools. It runs on the Microsoft Azure platform.

The build-vs-buy debate never ends, and sometimes build really makes sense.  But buy is clearly the way to bet: just 17% of martech replacement projects chose a homegrown solution this year, according to this MarTech survey.  That’s down from 31% the year before.  CDPs were among the least common replacements, maybe because they’re awesome and maybe because most CDP implementations are fairly new.  Download for more fun facts.