Category Archives: Marketing Technology

Introducing MarTech’s guide to agile marketing for leaders

This e-book will show you the skills and perspective needed to lead an agile marketing organization effectively. Henry Powderly on February 18, 2022 It’s easy to get into the weeds when it comes to agile marketing. After, the practice itself is all about breaking goals, projects and marketing tasks into smaller blocks in order to … Continue reading Introducing MarTech’s guide to agile marketing for leaders

Lytics adds cloud data connection feature to improve ad targeting

Marketers will be able to create create custom audiences for many advertising platforms. Corey Patterson on December 7, 2021 Customer data platform Lytics announced today that it’s offering a new tool that allows users to enhance their advertising campaigns via cloud data warehouses. The feature, Cloud Connect, is a freemium offering linking to Google Big … Continue reading Lytics adds cloud data connection feature to improve ad targeting

How to build a successful marketing technology roadmap

Courtney Trudeau of Merkle shows how marketers can adopt new technologies without disrupting their organizations. Corey Patterson on December 7, 2021 at 12:23 pm The rise in marketing technology platform offerings, coupled with consumer behavior shifts, has created a need for strategic transformation. Courtney Trudeau, Senior Director of Technology Strategy at Merkle, recently worked with … Continue reading How to build a successful marketing technology roadmap

From Big Data to Big Ops: Brinker speaks on marketing ops shift

How marketers can navigate the tech explosion around every business function imaginable. DevOps and DataOps for starters. Chris Wood on September 15, 2021 Every marketer has seen that crowded graphic of the marketing technology landscape, which gets set in smaller print every year as the number of vendor logos balloons, now, to over 8,000 and … Continue reading From Big Data to Big Ops: Brinker speaks on marketing ops shift

Real Story on MarTech: Sometimes the biggest vendors carry the biggest risks

But many smaller vendors are betting their lives on a single offering. Tony Byrne on July 15, 2021 at 11:54 am In 2019 when IBM suddenly let go of nearly all its martech portfolio, I joked that it reversed an ancient adage: while perhaps “no one ever got fired for recommending Big Blue,” it turns … Continue reading Real Story on MarTech: Sometimes the biggest vendors carry the biggest risks

The pros and cons of specializing in specific martech products

MOPs practitioners have their favorite solutions, but is it a good idea to specialize in one only? Steve Petersen on April 14, 2021 Martech practitioners specialize in specific products. That’s not news. Further, it makes sense for people to learn how to really use a specific platform well. However, that’s not always ideal when putting … Continue reading The pros and cons of specializing in specific martech products