REVEALED: The industry tells us how sh*t their data-driven marketing really is
29 September 2025
We all know how important data is - you can’t go to an industry conference without having that message hammered home. But how good is our own data-driven marketing?
MAD//Fest teamed up with our friends at imagino to find out. We surveyed more than 100 top brand marketers for our How Sh*t is your Data-Driven Marketing report who gave us a warts-and-all account of their own data-driven marketing.
The results are in, and they’re eye-opening - and dare we say heartening for many marketers lamenting their own capabilities.
For example, almost half (44%) of marketers say their company's personalisation is poor or very poor.

Meanwhile, almost a third (30%) describe their segmentation as either poor or very poor.
These are just two snippets from our report which delves into where the marketing industry is with:
- Major marketing investments
- Personalisation
- AI and automation
- Analytics and measurement
PLUS: The experts at imagino give 3 simple suggestions to help make your data-driven marketing a little less sh*t.
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