September 2015

5 Digital Dynamics Transforming Marketing

The 5 digital dynamics that are transforming marketing

As I prepare for the MarTech Europe conference coming up in a few weeks, I’ve been thinking about “digital transformation” — a topic that is entwined in the evolution of marketing, even though it’s much, much bigger than just marketing. Digital transformation is about reimagining a business in the digital world. Or, if “reimagining” is too […]

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Marketing Technologists, Growth Hackers, Digital Marketers

Marketing technologists, growth hackers, and regression to the mean

One of the arguments I sometimes hear is that the role of marketing technologists has a limited future because, eventually, every marketer will be a marketing technologist. I’m usually skeptical of those assertions because I know so many marketing technologists who have deep technical skills — such as systems architecture and software engineering — that

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MarTech 2016 Call for Speakers

Call-for-speakers for MarTech 2016 in San Francisco

Time flies! As does marketing technology, which has experienced amazing growth this year on just about every metric imaginable — more new ventures, more acquisitions, more adoption, more investment, more technical advancement, more marketing technologists, more capability maturity inside marketing teams. The pace of innovation in this industry is mind-blowing. And I love it. If

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Stephan Pretorius

Meet WPP’s firm of strategic marketing technologists

In preparing for the upcoming MarTech Europe conference — as a promotional interjection, please note that discounted “beta rates” for tickets expire next week — I’ve had a number of terrific chats with Stephan Pretorius, the co-founder and president of Acceleration, a WPP marketing technology services firm. Stephan will be one of our featured speakers

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