Last year was an uncertain one.
Though many of the economic indicators were excellent, including the low unemployment numbers and strong GDP growth, there was a lot of uncertainty in the market throughout the year.
In the martech ecosystem, publishers continued to feel the pains after the COVID-19 bump. Still, I believe that had more to do with the sustained consolidation of ad budgets on the major platforms as marketers reallocated marketing spend in the post-IDFA (identifier for advertisers) and soon, post-cookie world.