April 2017

Marketing Technology Landscape: Marketing Automation Evolution

From 2016 to 2017, 5X more marketing automation vendors were added than removed

tl;dr — From 2016 to 2017, the marketing automation category of the marketing technology landscape grew yet again, by 36%, from 156 vendors to 212. If you predicted it was going to consolidate in the past six years, sorry, you were wrong. Marketing automation remains a bellwether of martech It’s become a bit of a

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MarTech San Francisco 2017 Expo Hall

Separating marketing technology fact from fiction at #MarTech in 2 weeks

We’re now only two weeks away from the MarTech conference in San Francisco, May 9-11 — the world’s largest independent marketing technology conference designed for senior-level marketers and technologists. We stress the the word independent because unlike most of the big marketing events these days that are run by Adobe, HubSpot, IBM, Marketo, Oracle, Salesforce,

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Marketing Technology Is NOT Consolidating

Marketing technology may never consolidate (but that’s a good thing)

You’ve surely seen those eye charts with hundreds of marketing technology vendor logos. There are the iconic LUMAscapes by Terence Kawaja. And there’s my own chiefmartec.com marketing technology landscape, which last year organized 3,874 martech solutions on a single slide. (Spoiler alert: the upcoming 2017 edition will have more.) These charts provoke a visceral reaction

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Customer Journey

THE HACKIES: Creating SCALE: Shared Content and Link Evaluation

This article is a guest post by Christopher Penn of SHIFT Communications. It was entered into The Hackies essay contest for the upcoming MarTech conference. Like it? You can register your vote in the contest by sharing it on social media, especially LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The Challenge Historically, content marketers and communicators have been

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MarTech Cartoon Caption Contest

You have to participate in this MarTech cartoon caption contest…

As you may know, Tom Fishburne, a.k.a. the Marketoonist, will be one of our keynote speakers at the MarTech conference in San Francisco next month, May 9-11. I’m really looking forward to his presentation — sage observations on a wild marketing industry, roiled by the crazy pace of technological innovation, all revealed through the lens

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Marketing Technology Strategy

THE HACKIES: Driving digital transformation strategy in a rapidly evolving technology environment

This article is a guest post by Anita Brearton of CabinetM. It was entered into The Hackies essay contest for the upcoming MarTech conference. Like it? You can register your vote in the contest by sharing it on social media, especially LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Last month I listened to a webinar presentation related to

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Solvis Martech Stack

THE HACKIES: 6 areas to make your martech stack work with people, processes and data

This article is a guest post by Jesus Hoyos of Solvis Consulting. It was entered into The Hackies essay contest for the upcoming MarTech conference. Like it? You can register your vote in the contest by sharing it on social media, especially LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. During the last few years, many vendors and companies

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