Scott Brinker

chiefmartecTV Episode 3: Marketing Technology as a Strategic Asset

3 or 4 years ago, it would have been taboo to talk about your martech stack

Last week, the marketing strategy consultancy Lenati released their report Marketing Technology as a Strategic Asset, the result of a series of interviews we jointly conducted with 9 tech-savvy marketing executives from companies such as Adobe, Dun & Bradstreet, Hilton, Microsoft, and SAP. Our anthropological goal was to learn how these different companies managed marketing […]

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Marketing Technology as a Strategic Asset Contributors

Marketing technology as a strategic asset and executive unicorns

Over the past several months, I collaborated with Lenati, a marketing strategy consultancy, on a series of interviews with senior marketing executives. Our goal was to learn how these leaders, from a variety of different industries and organizational sizes, addressed these four key questions on strategic marketing technology management: How do they decide which marketing

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Adtech and Martech Moving In-House

The Great Marketing Migration

While there are numerous reasons why agency businesses are struggling today, the underlying gravitational pull they’re fighting is this: marketing is migrating in-house. That’s not to say that companies don’t still need or want help from external service providers. Or that there aren’t new and exciting opportunities in the services space. They do, and there

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Marketing Technologists on the Marketing Team

Martech and marketing technologists go mainstream — 3 key stats

The good folks at DataXu, in collaboration with market research firm MORAR and Withpr, have produced a fantastic quantative research study on the current state of marketing technology management: Modernizing the Mix: Transforming Marketing Through Technology and Analytics. You absolutely have to download this report — it’s a gold mine of insight into the current

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5,700 Marketing Technology Companies

Think my marketing tech landscape is too big? It’s missing 1,900 firms

Whenever I disclaim that my gigantor marketing technology landscape graphic is only a “representative sample” — that there are actually many more martech companies out there than I’ve been able to discover and include — I get the sense that most people consider it simply fine print. “Sure, Scott, you’re disclaiming that so as to

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Previous Roles of Marketing Technologists

Where unicorns come from — feeder roles for marketing technologists

The following is a guest post by Erica Seidel, founder of The Connective Good, a recruitment firm focused on marketing leaders with deep analytical and technical skills. Erica also serves on the advisory board of the MarTech conference series. Marketing technologists have burst onto the scene in recent years. These professionals can pinpoint the right

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