Super Senders generally detest their email service provider. That’s not an exaggeration. It’s like a dark family secret that no one talks about in public. But that doesn’t make the problem go away.

It’s always been striking to me how obvious this seems to be to everyone, but they try to ignore it because they feel like it’s just the way things are. After a career managing technology companies, I’ve been in the email world for 2.5 years now. I’m new enough to have been able to come in and see things with fresh eyes. There are many reasons why the marketing cloud ESPs are, frankly, doing a terrible job serving their largest customers.

Over its 15 years of existence, Gmail has undergone some major changes – some heralded by fanfare, others made without warning or even acknowledgement. From perpetual beta status and Priority Inbox to Promotion annotations and AMP, Google’s penchant for innovation has often left marketers running to keep up with the latest update.

Marketers understand the importance of personalization when it comes to their cross-channel messaging efforts, but it’s also essential to acknowledge that it’s quite possible to take it too far, even accidentally. In our latest webinar, Phrasee CEO Parry Malm joined us to talk about why too much — or too eager — personalization can often be worse than none at all, and how you can approach personalization in a way that will help you avoid common missteps.

Any enterprise marketer who has made the leap into cross-channel messaging knows it’s difficult to execute a sophisticated cross-channel strategy for a variety of reasons. At the top of that list of obstacles are technology that doesn’t serve the Super Sender’s needs, and data that’s challenging to access.

This is some of what we found in our new survey, where we asked enterprise marketers about their experiences in the cross-channel space, and tried to better understand what’s working and what’s not. And when it comes to personalization, there are some clear hurdles that they’re trying to find a way to get past.

For enterprise marketers competing for space in the inbox and eyeballs on mobile, there’s never been a more complex — or exciting — time than today. Technology is enabling teams to tailor not only their campaign content but the device in order to reach customers with relevant messages where they’re most likely to engage with it.

Our latest survey asked enterprise marketers about their experience with cross-channel messaging to try to get a feel for how they’re either thriving or struggling, and what adjustments they’re having to make in order to keep up in a rapidly changing landscape. In our webinar last week, we took a deep dive into this research, examining some of the key findings and trying to place them into the broader context of the marketing world, to better understand where cross-channel messaging stands today, and where it’s likely headed in the near future.