Revcontent is a “content discovery network”, which means they put those little “from the around the Web” story advertisements on the Web sites you browse. They do it 250 billion times per month. (It feels like I personally account for at least 500 million of that total, but probably not.) They’ve just acquired Rover, a machine learning recommendation company that should help them do a better job of matching recommendations to viewers.

Semarchy does master data management, meaning it unifies and standardizes all kinds of data, including customer identities.

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.