
The new marketing mandate: Learn fast
But digital marketing is so much more. Everyone on your team needs to be a data analyst. Your blog manager needs to understand Google...

How to set up a successful revenue-generating demand gen system
Marketers are expected to focus on the bottom line, and measurement is key to accomplishing that. A lot of startups get sloppy and charge...

Using Bluetooth, beacons and NFC to personalize in-store shopping
struggling. Just this week, children’s clothing retailer Gymboree declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced plans to close hundreds of...

Who’s really responsible for brand safety? Tools you can employ to take the matter in hand
Photo © Bloomicon / Shutterstock.com So your ad drove a million views — cool. Now, did all those views take place in a brand-safe...

The value of applying artificial intelligence in display advertising
artificial intelligence was an ambiguous notion of big ideas with futuristic applications — self-driving cars, drone deliveries, fridges...

CMO audit series, Part 3: Media channels (it’s not what you think)
There is a big difference, though, in small iterative changes in our industry and giant shifts that completely change the game for...

The next tech innovation to help marketers engage live audiences: Voice
Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post last year: The last 10 years have been about building a world that is mobile-first, turning...

The marketing career advice that no one gave me
And for a while, this was true. But in bike racing, you hit a point where the competition is strong enough that just putting time in the...

B2B CMOs and CIOs: It’s time to rethink data management
In digital media and advertising, data management platforms (DMPs) have become an essential tool that “ingests, classifies, sorts and...

Diving into the new SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall
I’ve been a fan and an avid collaborator with SiriusDecisions since around the time when Rich Eldh and John Neeson gave birth to the...

3 ways to ensure your marketing technology stacks up
The Marketing Technology Landscape has now reached nearly 5,000 vendors, with options to suit a wide range of marketer needs. Depending...

Martech vendor investment forecast: Sunny with just a few ‘clouds’
A powerhouse panel of marketing technology investors came together at the 2017 San Francisco MarTech Conference to discuss and debate the...

Stop calling ‘ad tech’ advertising
Plain and simple: advertising technology is not advertising. It may contain the root word “ad,” but the realities of the current ad tech...

Making martech usable
There are 5,000 different technologies in the Martech Landscape. And those are divided into over 50 different categories. It’s a lot to...

Getting ahead of the game with predictive analytics
Whether you build a team in-house or opt to work with a partner, good analytical talent is hard to come by, so putting together that...

MarTech, conversational UI, and the future of connecting with customers
Of the growing set of new themes in the exceptional content at this year’s MarTech San Francisco conference, one stood out in particular:...

Mobile is not the only channel to the customer, but it’s the most powerful one
Mobile is a key part of the modern relationship between brands and consumers. While it is by no means the only channel for brands to...

3 key takeaways from MarTech San Francisco 2017
The 2017 MarTech conference in San Francisco is over, and it’s safe to divulge the event’s WiFi password: martech5000. Despite the...

What can legacy media teach us about programmatic’s future?
In 2012, when Newsweek announced that they were going to scrap their print edition and go all digital, it felt like the culmination of an...
























