Ad management platform TapClicks has purchased paid search analytics vendor AdStage. The deal is TapClicks’ fourth acquisition in the past year, part of a strategy to become a unified marketing platform. Whatever that is.
Sales and marketing results improved at 94% of companies that increased their data quality investment and fell at 74% of those that didn’t, according to this Dun & Bradstreet study. Quality had its greatest impact on basics including sales prospecting and closing, insights, and campaign execution, and the least on advanced goals including personalization, online/offline alignment, and Account Based Marketing. Bear that in mind when you’re justifying your next quality investment.
Finally, CDP Audiens announced an $8 million strategic investment from South Korea’s NHN Corp. In addition to cash, Audiens will gain access to data from NHN’s game, payment, IT and advertising businesses.
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.