December 2019

Tom Wentworth, a pioneering engineer-turned-CMO in the marketing technology space whom I’ve long admired, recently commented on a LinkedIn thread, “Martech is about to face its ‘dot-com’ moment. How many pet stores did we really need in 2000?” I think he’s right — but possibly not in the way he (or you) might think. The remark was a reference to the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, when hundreds of first-generation Internet companies went …

Is martech headed for its “dot-com moment” in 2020? Continue Reading »

I’ve said many times that change is at the heart of modern marketing operations. It is at the very center of the “4 forces” diagram of The New Rules of Marketing Technology & Operations because it’s the dominant variable of our profession. And what’s the most common and concrete change in martech? Why changing martech applications, of course. This well-known yet not well-quantified phenomenon was the motivation for Chris Elwell and Jennifer Cannon of MarTech …

83% of marketers rip-and-replace a martech app each year — here’s why Continue Reading »

UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we have postponed The Stackies Awards Ceremony until October 6, when we’ll do a virtual event. As a result, we are extending the deadline for entries through September 18, 2020. We will also double the number of awards given — from five to ten — to provide one set of awards to those who submitted by the original deadline and a second set for those who submit by the …

Enter The Stackie Awards 2020: Share your marketing stack with the martech community Continue Reading »