
Maybe the marketing funnel is dead, too — and here’s what can replace it
you should probably stop thinking about marketing in terms of campaigns. It used to be that you created marketing collateral and could...

At IAB’s Podcast Upfront, stories-in-sound strut spectacular ad specs
If radio married a blog and had offspring, they would be podcasts. And these youngsters — personally expressive posts in audio — are...

An email marketer’s top-level guide to DMARC, your best anti-phishing tool
One of the many things every email marketer ought to know are the major players in email protocols — the underpinning technologies making...

How computer vision may impact the future of marketing
Snapchat can give you a puppy dog face thanks to facial recognition (a subset of machine vision). Autonomous cars can identify a human...

IDC’s Gerry Murray: AI isn’t just one thing
The big thing about artificial intelligence (AI), IDC Research Director Gerry Murray told me, is that it isn’t just one thing. “It’s many...

Becoming a martech mastermind: Agility, proficiency and accountability
close to 4,000 martech vendors across categories like Advertising & Promotion, Content & Experience, Social & Relationship and more....

Analyst David Raab: We’ll have self-driving cars before we have self-driving marketing platforms
If you think self-driving marketing platforms are like self-driving cars, analyst David Raab disagrees. (He will be participating in a...

Applause CMO: Digital tech continues to change how customers are acquired and kept happy
Before digital, the marketer’s role was pretty clean-cut: Tell people about the product and get them to buy it. Post-purchase, maybe...

Fuze CMO: A single source of truth for customer data ‘collapses under its own weight’
Virtually every marketer or marketing software vendor I interview says they want to establish “a single source of truth” about customers...

A martech wish list: Where marketing clouds need to go
email service providers (ESP) or push platforms. They all were designed around a particular customer and set of use cases, and their...

5 tools to take your marketing automation to the next level
Automation helps companies save time, scale faster and reduce the damage caused by human error in their customer acquisition pipelines....

Real Story Group: Good time to get your informational house in order
It seems like nearly every marketing tool or platform these days is happy to tell us how smart it is. Whether described as artificial...

MarTech Today Research: A marketer’s guide to personalization tools
The biggest difference that digital technology has made for marketing is the ability to personalize at scale. As a result, there are...

Get into the email automation game
In my experience, the way a marketing automation program is conceived and set up often dooms it to failure. Such a failure doesn’t...

Is Google getting ready to buy Marketo?
The Marketo logo Marketing platform Marketo announced last week a multiyear alliance with Google Cloud, which Marketo CEO Steve Lucas...

Spotify’s VP of Growth: CRM is much more than off-the-shelf software
“The customer is always under warranty,” Spotify VP of Growth Mayur Gupta told me. Of course, he was speaking figuratively to emphasize...

Meet today’s CMO: Multisport athlete
regularly entering the landscape, the underlying technologies have evolved to follow an increasingly complex buyer journey and assist...

Demand gen tunnel vision: Why your company probably needs to invest in branding
And yet, despite the huge proliferation of powerful enablers, there remains a reality we should stay cognizant of: As human beings, we’re...

WorkSpan launches a platform for joint marketing campaigns
Businesses have used portals and other online tools to communicate with their channel partners almost since the internet began. But this...
























