{"id":10608,"date":"2025-12-03T18:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:47:56","slug":"the-cdp-fantasy-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=10608","title":{"rendered":"The CDP fantasy is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SE01EP13-Tejas-Manohar-800x450.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tejas Manohar of Hightouch on Playbook Broken.\" \/><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Customer data platforms promised clarity, unity and true personalization \u2014 but reality didn\u2019t live up to the hype. <\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Hightouch Co-CEO Tejas Manohar joins us to dismantle the outdated CDP playbook and reveal why modern teams are shifting toward composable data architectures and AI-driven decisioning. <\/p>\n<p>Manohar shares the inside story of the CDP market\u2019s evolution, why most organizations still struggle to activate their data, and how AI is finally enabling the kind of individualized marketing the industry chased for decades. <\/p>\n<p>From broken batch-and-blast tactics to the rise of automated insights, this conversation exposes what\u2019s not working \u2014 and what B2B teams must embrace next. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re re-thinking your stack, your strategy or your role in an AI-powered marketing world, this episode is required listening. <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode guide <\/h3>\n<p><strong>00:16:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guest introduction: Tejas Manohar<\/a><br \/><strong>00:54:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The evolution of CDPs<\/a><br \/><strong>09:26:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The role of AI in marketing<\/a><br \/><strong>12:23:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=743\">The future of marketing playbooks<\/a><br \/><strong>20:10:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=1210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personalization in marketing: Myth or reality?<\/a> <br \/><strong>23:53:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=1433\">AI in marketing: A new workflow<\/a><br \/><strong>30:40:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=1840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The technical shift in marketing<\/a><br \/><strong>35:08:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JP1gKtXZbQM?si=bWJzPwH6RvZsUrvk&amp;t=2108\" 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<\/p><\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/martech.org\/the-cdp-fantasy-is-over\/\">The CDP fantasy is over<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/martech.org\/\">MarTech<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customer data platforms promised clarity, unity and true personalization \u2014 but reality didn\u2019t live up to the hype. In this episode, Hightouch Co-CEO Tejas Manohar joins us to dismantle the outdated CDP playbook and reveal why modern teams are shifting toward composable data architectures and AI-driven decisioning. Manohar shares the inside story of the CDP &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=10608\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The CDP fantasy is over&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"medium":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"large":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"inspiro-featured-image":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"inspiro-loop":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"inspiro-loop@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-masonry":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-masonry@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jp1gktxzbqm.jpg",0,0,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}