Caleb Benningfield

Caleb Benningfield is the Principal Solution Architect at Amperity. With over seven years of experience at Amperity, the leading customer data platform (CDP), Caleb has held various roles, including Principal Solution Architect and Forward Deployed Engineer. As one of the first employees, he was pivotal in establishing the Customer Success team and was involved in the company’s first major successful customer project with Alaska Airlines. Caleb has the unique ability to bridge the gap between technical aspects and market perspectives. Prior to Amperity, Caleb served as a Lead Software Engineer at IMS Health, where he worked on scaling an enterprise CRM and marketing automation platform. He began his career as a Software Developer at Appature before its acquisition by IMS Health.

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Caleb BenningfieldMonday, July 24, 2023

Gain Customer Trust With These Three Privacy-Centric Advertising Practices

A one-size-fits-all advertising approach no longer cuts it. Customers expect personalized advertising experiences that cater to them. And they also want to have a say in how they see and receive ads. But there’s a catch. Much of today’s advertising comes from third-party (3P) data. With the deprecation of third-party cookies and data privacy laws—not to mention consumers themselves are…

It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was Helping Hand, which curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and navigate resources on the Internet. Years later, I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I discovered that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly changed the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media is my company overseeing my publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking gigs. Highbridge is my agency with two other partners that help companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
CEO, DK New Media
VP, Highbridge