Buying martech: what you love, what you hate, and who you trust (or not)
If you're reading this blog, it's a safe bet that you've been involved in buying — or selling — martech software. Probably quite a bit of martech software. So I greatly appreciate that a number of you responded to my survey over LinkedIn asking what you loved and hated about that experience and which resources you found helpful and trustworthy (or not!) in that process. Here's what you, at least the collective "you," had to […]
Will AI in martech make buyer experiences better or worse? It depends…
How do you know you're at the peak of a Hype Cycle? When means outweigh ends. Martech professionals and marketing ops leaders are being driven to apply AI in marketing — use […]
Blueprint for a hypothetical martech “holding company” for a world where aggregation beats consolidation
For 13 years of the ever-expanding martech landscape, conventional wisdom has predicted that our industry would consolidate. That conventional wisdom has failed spectacularly. Or more accurately, the conventional wisdom of the software […]
The new data layer in martech has taken hold as the foundation upon which marketing AI will be built
In our recent State of Martech 2024 report — which is free and now fully ungated — Frans Riemersma and I analyzed a ton of transformation happening across the martech industry, from […]
APIs are “very important” to martech buyers today, but they’ll be crucial for the coming wave of AI agents
Take a guess at filling in the blank here: _______ is to AI Agents as Data is to AI Models The answer, as you likely surmised from my headline, is APIs. Let's […]
3 counterintuitive surprises about composable martech stacks in The State of Martech 2024 report
For years, the conventional wisdom in martech has been: the fewer apps in your stack, the better. It's obvious, right? By reducing the number of apps, you will save money, have a […]
26 magnificently illustrated martech stacks from the 2024 Stackie Awards, with the winners revealed
Yesterday we celebrated the 10th annual Stackie Awards as part of #MartechDay. Every year for the past decade, we've invited marketers to send in a single slide that illustrates their marketing tech […]
2024 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic — 14,106 martech products (27.8% growth YoY)
Happy #MartechDay to you! On the first Tuesday of May, we celebrate the martech industry and all the talented marketing technologists and marketing ops professionals who work in it. Cheers to you […]
16 years later, the present — not future — of martech is here, but unevenly distributed
The CMO Survey, a bi-yearly study of trends and perspectives from CMOs run by Duke University, Deloitte, and the AMA, has been one of the keystone research projects in the marketing industry […]
This isn’t hyperbole: we have some big counterintuitive revelations coming on #MartechDay 2024
If you only attend one online event this year… well, then it's clearly not 2021 anymore! 😀 But this one is worth it. I guarantee you will be surprised, if not shocked, […]
Visible and invisible tech stacks, and the upsides and downsides of “shadow IT” in martech and beyond
Tech stacks are large. The empirical stack data we recently shared from Zylo, a leading SaaS management platform, showed that even after a year of belt-tightening, the average SMB (500 employees or […]
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Interviews
Start 2017 with the world’s most famous chief marketing technologist
Happy New Year, dear readers! What better way to launch into 2017 than revisiting our […]
Digital transformation at the AARP, from old to new
Had your fill of millennial marketing articles lately? Even the millennials themselves are like, "Don't […]
Insights from the chief marketing technologist of an $18B firm
Duane Schulz, chief marketing technologist at Xerox, is a marketing technologist's marketing technologist. One of […]
How utilized is marketing automation today? An expert weighs in
I recently had the chance to talk with Jeff Pedowitz, the founder and president of […]
Marketing
Buying martech: what you love, what you hate, and who you trust (or not)
If you're reading this blog, it's a safe bet that you've been involved in buying […]
Will AI in martech make buyer experiences better or worse? It depends…
How do you know you're at the peak of a Hype Cycle? When means outweigh […]
Blueprint for a hypothetical martech “holding company” for a world where aggregation beats consolidation
For 13 years of the ever-expanding martech landscape, conventional wisdom has predicted that our industry […]
The new data layer in martech has taken hold as the foundation upon which marketing AI will be built
In our recent State of Martech 2024 report — which is free and now fully […]
Media Content
The Martech Show Episode #11: The Great Unbundling with Benedict Evans
The Martech Show is back! Our latest episode is an interview with Benedict Evans, tech […]
The Martech Show Episode #10: Lessons from a Fortune 50 CMO on Agile Marketing, Martech & More
Season #1 of The Martech Show concludes in Episode #10 with a terrific conversation with […]
The Martech Show Episode #9: The Tech-Savvy CMO — Unicorn or Universal?
For this 9th episode of The Martech Show, I was delighted to have Rishi Dave, […]
The Martech Show Episode #8: The Martech Suite Strikes Back?
Ben Bloom, a senior research director at Gartner who specializes in marketing technology management, joined […]