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This Digiday survey for Best Buy.Ads offers a more cautious view of retail media prospects. Just 17% of respondents expected the importance of retail media networks to grow significantly in 2023, and the fraction of brands expecting to spend more than 60% of their budget fell from 14% to zero. Half (51%) said retail media were no more effective than other channels.

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.