Scott Brinker

20 years of massive development in marketing (a metaphor)

April 23, 2010 / Uncategorized / By Scott Brinker / Leave a Comment

Thank you for all the positive feedback on Rise of the Marketing Technologist. It’s been inspiring to hear so many stories of people who are already working as de facto marketing technologists — one of whom called my proposal for a marketing CTO their “dream job.” This bolsters my belief that the talent and skill set for such marketing technology leadership is out there, eager to contribute at the next level up. To motivate such …

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Rise of the Marketing Technologist

April 18, 2010 / Marketing Management / By Scott Brinker / 34 Comments

Last week, I gave my talk at Search Insider Summit on the Rise of the Marketing Technologist. Based on the positive feedback I received from brands, agencies, and technology vendors alike, it apparently resonated deeply. So, first, I’d like to share the slide presentation with you: Rise of the Marketing Technologist from Scott Brinker However, since slides can’t capture the full dynamics of the presentation, I thought I would follow with an essay version of …

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The future of marketing in a technology world

April 8, 2010 / Uncategorized / By Scott Brinker / 4 Comments

Next week, I’ll be presenting at Search Insider Summit with an 18-minute, TED-style talk called Rise of the Marketing Technologist. This time around, the event organizers — led by programming chair Gord Hotchkiss — asked speakers to put aside the usual topics and instead share our visions of where the future of marketing is headed. So while I usually talk about post-click marketing and conversion optimization at such events, I’ve decided that this is the …

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A perfect storm for marketing technology

March 26, 2010 / Marketing Software / By Scott Brinker / 6 Comments

To say that there are a lot of marketing technology companies out there is a major understatement. To help picture the scale of this expanding universe, here’s just a sample of the players in the field: These are merely a fraction of the firms offering marketing automation, web analytics, campaign management, conversion optimization, email marketing, bid management, keyword research, attribution management, behavioral targeting, digital asset management, marketing resource management, social media monitoring — and I’ve …

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Ideas for an agile marketing manifesto

March 24, 2010 / Agile Marketing / By Scott Brinker / 8 Comments

While working on an article for Search Engine Land, Agile Marketing For Conversion Optimization, it struck me that there really should be an Agile Marketing Manifesto. Just as the Agile Manifesto helped coalesce a diverse collection of software developers and their various agile methodologies under a common banner, there’s an opportunity for marketers to throw off the shackles of legacy processes from the last century and declare allegiance to a new set of guiding principles. …

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Business models for linked data and web 3.0

March 6, 2010 / Marketing Data / By Scott Brinker / 11 Comments

In January, I wrote a post on 7 business models for linked data (with an 8th model added shortly thereafter). Although far from comprehensive, it attempted to illustrate the range of direct revenue vs. indirect revenue models that could justify development of linked data initiatives. A number of people from the linked data community contributed feedback and suggestions of additional models, including Leigh Dodds (Thoughts on Linked Data Business Models), Paul Groth (Another 5 Linked …

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Creative technology != marketing technology

February 16, 2010 / Agencies / By Scott Brinker / 2 Comments

Just read an article posted on Adweek yesterday, The New Tech Heads, profiling four “digital technologists” — that label seems a tad redundant, doesn’t it? — from top agencies: Scott Prindle, executive creative technology director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky Chris Kief, creative technology director, TBWA\Chiat\Day Richard Schatzberger, director of creative technology, Bartle Bogle Hegarty Gareth Kay, director of digital strategy, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners I’m thrilled to see this coverage. The integration of technology into …

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Web 3.0 interview on data marketing

February 2, 2010 / Marketing Data / By Scott Brinker / Leave a Comment

While I was at the Web 3.0 Conference last week, giving a talk on data marketing, I did a quick video interview on the subject with Scott Koegler of SemanticWeb.com. Watch Web3.0 Conference Interview Scott Brinker – Ion Interactive in Tech & Gaming | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Ratings in Google search ads address trust

January 31, 2010 / Marketing Tactics / By Scott Brinker / 2 Comments

I woke up this morning to read an incredibly exciting story on Search Engine Land, Yelp Ratings Appear In Google AdWords. This may be one of the most game changing experiments in the history of advertising. Here’s why. Last year, I did a research project on people’s attitudes towards sponsored search advertising, which led to a blog post that study reveals issues with search ads — trust and usefulness. (I have since also read similar …

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Data marketing for Web 3.0

January 26, 2010 / Marketing Data / By Scott Brinker / 5 Comments

I just finished up my presentation on data marketing at the Web 3.0 Conference, and I thought I’d share it here as well. Web 3.0 Data Marketing View more presentations from sjbrinker. I’ll recap what I said to accompany the above slides, a kind of running commentary like they have on DVD’s. I’ll put slide numbers in brackets, like [4] for slide #4, so you can follow along. Marketing with Linked Data I want to …

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