Scott Brinker

The myth of martech consolidation is dead. Now what?

A couple of weeks ago, we hosted the MarTech West conference in San Jose. My personal thanks to all of the amazing speakers who brought such passion and insight to their martech-in-the-real-world presentations — you were awesome. Rather than offer my “hot takes” of the event a few days later, I decided to take a little more time to rest and reflect on what I personally took away from the experience. There were so many fascinating …

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MarTech West 2018 Keynote Stage

Calling marketing technology and operations leaders: come speak at MarTech East, October 1-3

Want to speak at MarTech East in Boston, October 1-3? We invite you to propose a compelling presentation idea at the intersection of marketing, technology, and management that you’d be passionate about delivering. Sessions at MarTech East will be a mix of 45-minute in-depth presentations and panels and 20-minute TED-style talks with slides. We’re looking for session proposals that are “graduate level” in nature — not Digital Marketing 101 — where a speaker will be …

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54 marketing stacks from The Stackies 2018: Marketing Tech Stack Awards

Wow, I am just in awe of the 54 entries we received into The Stackies 2018: Marketing Tech Stack Awards. The quality of the illustrations this year were particularly remarkable. These are marketers who clearly have a lot of passion for their infrastructure. (How’s that for something you wouldn’t have heard 5 years ago?) If you’re new to this, a “marketing stack” is the collection of software that a marketing team uses to ply their …

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The Stackies 2018: Marketing Tech Stack Awards

Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (2018): Martech 5000 (actually 6,829)

UPDATE: The 2020 Marketing Technology Landscape is now available. Like the running of the bulls in Pamplona — an apt simile? — it’s become a yearly tradition for me to release the marketing technology landscape at the MarTech conference in the spring. So here at our event in San Jose today, I’m pleased to unveil the 2018 edition of one of the most loved-and-hated slides in marketing: Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (2018) — 4.6MB Slide …

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Marketing Technology Landscape (2018)

10 days until MarTech, 10 things I’m looking forward to

Marketing technology and operations is the heartbeat of modern marketing. And there’s no event better than MarTech to plug you into the ground truth of how that discipline is evolving. Our next MarTech is now just 10 days away, April 23-25 in San Jose. I’m incredibly excited by everything that’s come together for this conference — it will be our best one yet. Here are the top 10 things I’m looking forward to: #1. Release …

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MarTech West in 10 Days

Martech-Enabled Marketing Operations: Invisible Roads and Bridges

The following is a guest post by Luque Wang, a senior marketing manager of global strategy and operations at GE Digital. What is Marketing Operations? Ten years ago, marketing operations was still a very new role in org structures. The number of people with marketing operations as their job title were few and far between. Today, marketing operations has become the backbone of a marketing team driving the marketing excellence and supporting the business growth. …

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Marketing Operations Org and Flow

Announcing the build-your-own martech landscape kit, fun for the whole office

As we’ve been slaving working away on the new 2018 edition of the Marketing Technology Landscape (“Martech 5000”) graphic — and that’s not the editorial “we,” but indeed a whole team of obsessively-compulsive martech lunatics dedicated industry advocates — it suddenly occurred to me this morning that we’ve been selfishly hoarding the fun. Seriously, you’ve not lived until you’ve tried to squeeze 5,000-some-odd logos on to a single PowerPoint slide. It’s an epic Zen exercise …

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Build-Your-Own Martech Landscape

3 marketing technology myths we’ll debunk at the vendor-agnostic MarTech conference

As the world’s largest, vendor-agnostic marketing technology conference, MarTech gives you real-world insights into the good, the bad, and even the ugly of procuring, implementing, and operating marketing technology solutions. Our 2-day program delivers candid, in-depth, and unbiased content that you won’t get anywhere else. MarTech is designed specifically for marketing operations executives who are responsible for leveraging martech investments and technologies. And we’re not looking to sell you anything — well, other than a …

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That's Not How Martech Works!

Stackers gonna stack: a great marketing stack slide from Alert Logic

Here’s another fun entry into The Stackies 2018: Marketing Tech Stack Awards that I thought I’d share from Alert Logic, a leading provider of information security solutions. There are four reasons why I wanted to call this one out: A great marketing stack illustration doesn’t necessarily need to invent a whole new way of organizing its tools and technologies to be enlightening and instructive. This is a terrific example of a marketing stack that clearly …

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Salesforce to acquire Mulesoft because, hey, it’s a world of infinite cloud services

Yesterday, Mulesoft announced it was being acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion. That’s a pretty hefty premium — a 21.6X multiple — given that the company had less than $300 million in revenue for 2017. That’s a strategic bet. So what’s the strategy? Although I’ve sworn off the game of making predictions, I do feel this validates one of the 5 big disruptions to marketing that I’ve been clamoring about for the past two years: …

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Salesforce to Acquire Mulesoft

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