Martech Suite vs. Best-of-Breed 2020

The Martech Show Episode #8: The Martech Suite Strikes Back?

Ben Bloom, a senior research director at Gartner who specializes in marketing technology management, joined me for Episode #8 of The Martech Show to share some surprising data from their latest report, Marketing Technology Survey 2020. The first surprise? A pretty significant shift in the preference for integrated suites over best-of-breed solutions. Like a 30 […]

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The Martech Show Episode #7: Ecosystems and the Expanding SaaS Universe

You think there’s a lot of martech, right? But it’s only a fraction of the total SaaS universe out there. This latest episode of The Martech Show features Jay McBain, Forrester analyst extraordinaire — I’ve long been a fan of his work — sharing his insights about SaaS markets and ecosystems. Jay estimates that there

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Martech 2030: Five Trends

Martech 2030: Five Trends in Marketing Technology for the Decade of the Augmented Marketer

Four months ago, I started a collaboration with Jason Baldwin, the global head of product management at WPP, to write a paper on the major trends in marketing technology that we believe will shape the decade ahead for agencies and brands. It wasn’t about guessing our own “hype cycle” of individual technologies. There are plenty

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The Martech Show: The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing

The Martech Show Episode #6: The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing

For the fifth episode of The Martech Show, we talked about five major trends of marketing technology. For this sixth episode, we discussed the six disciplines of agile marketing. For the seventh episode, we’ll clearly need to cover seven swans-a-swimming, which would make a great viral TikTok video. Coincidence or martech numerology? You decide. Seriously

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The Martech Show Episode #5: AI and the Modern Marketer

The Martech Show Episode #5: Martech Trends in Agency Land

Earlier this month, my opening keynote for the (virtual) MarTech Conference covered five major trends in marketing technology that are already present today but will grow dramatically over the next 10 years in The Age of the Augmented Marketer: “No Code” Citizen Creators Platforms, Networks & Marketplaces The Great App Explosion From Big Data to

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How Bias Creeps Into AI and Machine Learning in Martech

The Martech Show Episode #4: Avoiding Bias and BS in AI and Machine Learning

Okay, the original title for this episode was, “Marketing Has a Data Farm: AI, AI, Oh!” — the kind of whimsical play on words that amuses me to no end. (I know, my bar for self-amusement is pretty low.) We intended to discuss how marketing is harnessing its troves of data through real-world examples of

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MarTech Stackies 2020: 51 marketing stacks

51 martech stacks shared in the 2020 Stackie Awards, beautifully illustrated examples of modern marketing toolsets

This is the 6th year that we have run The Stackies as an awards contest that invites marketers to send in a single slide illustrating their marketing stack — the collection of martech tools they use and the way they conceptualize them together as a whole. Although we award trophies for a few winning entries

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Martech Hiring Trends

The Martech Show Episode #3: The Road from Marketing Ops to Marketing Tops (CMO)

The latest episode of The Martech Show is now available for your viewing pleasure. It was a terrific session, with special guest Erica Seidel, executive recruiter and founder of The Connective Good, along with our sponsoring guest Justin Sharaf, VP marketing at Jahia. Erica kicked off the show by walking us through the evolving trends

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Integrated Multi-System Architectures Taking over Martech

Integration is by far the most important criteria when selecting martech — and it’s changing the industry

The CDP Institute released their latest State of Customer Data report last week, and it revealed an important milestone in the martech industry: For the first time ever, the majority of participants (52%) described their martech stack as an integrated, multi-system architecture. In others words, most marketers reported having a best-of-breed stack — with many

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