CMO’s 2019 round-up of mega adtech and martech buys

It’s been yet another year of significant mergers and acquisitions in the marketing, advertising and customer technology sphere.

From Adobe’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of the industry’s best-of-breed marketing automation darling, to SAP’s Qualtrics customer and employee experience management buy, Salesforce’s whopping data visualisation investment and a bunch of private equity deals, the consolidation of the martech lumascape is showing no signs of abating – even as new entrants continue to creep into the ecosystem.

Here, CMO rounds-up what we saw to be some the biggest deals of the past 12 months.