Data Management

CDPs are still getting budget, but the architecture around them is shifting toward the warehouse

CDP spending is rising, but operations teams are rewriting specs around warehouse-native, zero-copy activation and consent controls.

Consumption-based martech is bringing surprise AI bills to CMO budgets

Gartner data show CMOs put 15.3% of budgets into AI, but only 30% can scale. Usage-based martech is rising, and half of adopters keep renegotiating.

Marketing teams are buying AI before they can govern it

Benchmarks from The CMO Survey, Forrester, and CMI show AI rising on budget lists while governance and fundamentals lag. Plan for measurement, data, and workflo

Marketing teams are spending 16.6 hours a week trying to show up in AI answers

A WordPress VIP data point is turning “AI SEO” into a CMS and analytics problem, just as MarTech’s September event doubles down on AI and data ops.

GenAI gains remain limited as effective use stays low

NROC’s Q2 2026 data puts a number on the AI gap: access is broad, effectiveness is rare, and data plumbing plus model choices decide whether teams see value.

Insider’s “agentic” pitch is pushing martech buyers onto one platform

Insider is marketing an “agentic” customer engagement platform as enterprises consolidate CDP and messaging tools across 12+ channels.

Zeotap's composable CDP now runs entirely inside a customer's Snowflake account, eliminating data copies

Zeotap's new Snowflake Marketplace native app runs identity, segmentation, journey orchestration, and activation without ever moving data outside the customer's

Tenon brings native marketing automation to the ServiceNow AI Platform, closing the gap between CRM and customer engagement

Tenon's expansion into the ServiceNow AI Platform lets enterprise marketing teams run omnichannel campaigns on the same data, workflows, and governance already

RainFocus connects Adobe Workfront and AEM to eliminate manual event content workflows

RainFocus adds two Adobe Experience Manager integrations to automate session data sync and enforce brand governance across global event programs.

RainFocus connects event data directly to Adobe Experience Manager, closing the content supply chain gap for enterprise marketers

RainFocus launches two Adobe Experience Manager integrations that sync event session, speaker, and exhibitor data into AEM and enforce brand governance across g

RainFocus adds two Adobe Experience Manager integrations to close the event content supply chain gap

RainFocus launches AEM Sites Connector and AEM Content Advisor, linking event data directly to Adobe's content supply chain for enterprise marketing teams.

France and Italy set pixel-tracking consent deadlines, and Klaviyo is shipping controls now

CNIL and Garante regulations require separate consent for email open-tracking pixels. Klaviyo has released per-recipient and account-level controls to help send