Let’s start the year with a couple of items from the end of December. First is the birth announcement of a bouncing baby CDP from conDati, which hatched with a $2.5 million nest egg. They’re now in beta and plan a full launch by June.

Still, programmatic is far from dead. This ANA study reports it accounts for 78% of digital display spending and the share continues to increase. But the ANA confirmed that marketers have brand safety concerns and found that 35% of marketers taking over more programmatic work from their agencies. Already, 47% own their tech provider contracts and 32% do their own audience planning on a DMP. There’s considerably more in this study: it’s worth a download if you’re interested in the topic.

Have you been debating whether marketing operations should be centralized or decentralized?  Neither have we, but it’s still interesting to learn that 59% of Marketo users told Perkuo their marops were centralized, 30% hybrid, and 5% decentralized.  More here on most- and least-used capabilities and most common weaknesses.  Is “marops” a thing?  “Markops” would be cooler, since it sounds like “marketing cops”.