Today’s news reminds us that technology is supposed to make things easier. We’ll start with acquisition of no-code experience builder SnapApp by personalized content delivery platform Uberflip. The result should make it eaiser to set up Uberflip experiences.
We have several bits of CDP product news today, Dear Reader. Let’s start with an announcement that Lytics is repackaging their product so buyers can purchase data unification alone or in combination with insight and messaging functions.
The mixed news: the Firefox browser will block a standard ID designed to help advertisers track users without third-party cookies. The ID is being developed by the DigiTrust consortium, a project led by the industry group IAB Tech Lab. Whether this is good or bad news depends on your attitude towards privacy.
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.