Investments in marketing technology continue to be a priority for businesses across the board, as they strive to meet increased demands for personalization and a need to collect, authenticate and analyze rapidly increasing amounts of consumer data to improve the customer experience (CX).
Overall marketing budgets dipped slightly to 10.5% of company revenue in 2019 as compared to 2018, as CMOs and VPs of marketing operations continue to focus on ROI and efficiency, according to Gartner’s annual CMO Survey for 2019-2020.