Personalization gets more than its share of hype. But 80% of firms that have invested in it will drop the whole thing by 2025, according to a study by Gartner Inc.
The reasons are
lack of ROI and/or the perils of customer data management.
In fact, 27% of marketers list data collection, integration and protection as the chief barriers to personalization.
Gartner also projects that one third of all brand public relations disasters will be caused by data ethics failures by 2023.
In addition, CMO budget allocations for influencer marketing
will decrease by a third as consumers lose trust in brands and entities they don’t know.
“Consumers have developed an increasingly jaundiced eye toward marketers’ efforts to
embrace them,” states Charles Golvin, senior director analyst in the Gartner for Marketers practice.
Golvin adds that "their increasingly cluttered email inboxes and mobile
phone notification centers may lead them to ignore even the most carefully personalized and contextualized message.”
Gartner also predicts that:
- AI-based identification of
emotions will influence over half of online advertisements by 2024.
- A quarter of marketing departments will have a dedicated behavioral scientist or ethnographer on their full-time staff by
2025.