Marketing Software

My friends, the above is an infographic of 547 human resource (HR) software products across 17 categories. It was created by the smart folks at Capterra, and you can click here to view a larger version on their site. So why am I posting it here? Two reasons. First, the overlap between marketing and HR is more important than ever — marketing, like software development, is a profession of acquiring, empowering, and inspiring talent. So …

Marketing isn’t alone — HR software landscape with 547 products Continue Reading »

Only 9% of marketers have all the marketing technology they need and fully utilize it. That remarkable statistic stood out to me from a new report on marketing technology strategy published by Ascend2 that reveals some interesting insights on the utilization and effectiveness of marketing technology today. Kudos to the 9% who seem to have their marketing tech situation fully baked! Of course, it’s possible that some percentage of those people may feel that way, …

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Let’s play a little game. The chart above shows the top 10 marketing analytics and automation companies, ranked by their 2014 revenue in this category. Well, actually, the revenue numbers are there, but I have cleverly hidden the company names. Can you guess who the companies are? For bonus points, can you name them in order of their revenue from last year? (These revenue numbers include broader “marketing cloud” offerings, and services as well as …

Who are the top 10 martech companies? It may surprise you Continue Reading »

Tony Ralph, the director of ad technology at Netflix, delivered one of the best talks at MarTech in San Francisco earlier this year. It’s truly a “graduate level” discussion about how Netflix’s adtech/martech team developed a build-and-buy strategy for their own technology stack for bringing programmatic advertising in-house. While not every marketing team has access to the level of engineering talent that Netflix has, Tony makes a compelling case for businesses to internally develop customized …

In marketing tech at Netflix, APIs are the new black Continue Reading »

For many years, we kept being promised that “the year of mobile” was upon us. When it failed to materialize, it was easy to become jaded and write off much of the discussion of that coming wave of innovation as hype. But somewhat suddenly, we now look around, with everyone reaching for their phones every other minute — or checking them on their Inspector Gadget watches — having integrated them into their soaring digital expectations …

Marketing and the Internet of Things, closer than you think Continue Reading »

The following is a guest article by Roger Lee, a general partner at Battery Ventures. As regular readers know, I rarely publish guest posts, particularly those that emphasize individual vendors. When you read this one, you may think I have thrown that policy out the window, as Battery has invested in two out of three companies featured in it (update: three out of three, if you count that ExactTarget is now part of Salesforce). I …

A great example of a 3-vendor multi-platform stack Continue Reading »

I’m pleased to announce the results of our first-ever “Stackies” awards. As a quick recap, we invited marketers to send in a single-slide diagram of their marketing technology stack, the different marketing software products that they use in their work, organized in a way that makes the most sense to them. The four “best” stacks entered would split $1,876 to be allocated to charities they could choose. Before I reveal the winners, let me first …

21 marketing technology stacks shared in The Stackies Continue Reading »

The closing session at our last MarTech Conference in San Francisco was an all-star fireside chat, “Follow the Martech Money: VCs, IPOs, and M&A”, with three leading venture capitalists and one of the most influential investment bankers in the marketing tech space: Neeraj Agrawal of Battery Ventures Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital Ajay Agarwal of Bain Capital Ventures Brian Andersen of LUMA Partners They engaged in a candid discussion about how they view the forces …

A candid fireside chat with 4 heavyweights in martech money Continue Reading »

“Bill Gates got it immediately. It took Andy Grove 10 years to figure it out, and 20 years for Steve Jobs.” That quote in The New York Times by David B. Yoffie, Harvard strategy professor and co-author of a new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs, immediately caught my eye. (Hat tip to M.G. Siegler.) What was “it” that these three titans of technology ultimately all figured …

4 topologies of integrated marketing technology stacks Continue Reading »

I’m excited to announce The Stackies: Marketing Technology Stack Awards. The short version: share a high-level diagram of your own “marketing stack” — the collection of marketing software tools you use, large and small — by May 31, and if yours wins, I’ll donate up to $1,000 to the charity of your choice. All stacks will then be shared in a SlideShare deck, so everyone can have the benefit of learning from each other. Here …

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