July 2019

McDonalds SVP Marketing Technology

McDonald’s drops CMO role and creates a new SVP marketing technology role (under the CIO)

Normally, I don’t write about career moves on this blog. But an article that appeared in Ad Age this week about the upcoming departure of famed McDonald’s CMO Silvia Lagnado — and the company’s decision to not name a new CMO — caught my attention. Another CMO role disappearing is newsworthy — that’s been emerging

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Martech Is Marketing: A Spectrum

Martech is marketing: a wide spectrum of possibilities

“Martech is marketing.” The MarTech conference recently updated its tagline to that phrase, evolving beyond our original motto, “Marketing. Technology. Management.” It’s not that the conference itself changed. But since we launched the event five years ago, the context in which it operates — the profession of marketing — sure has. Over that time, the

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