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Customer Data Platforms
Prioritizing User Privacy in Platform Development and Licensing: A Guide for Leaders in Marketing and Technology
Digital privacy concerns are at the forefront of consumers’ minds. Whether you’re a solutions provider, MarTech professional, or business… we all play a pivotal role in shaping the ethical landscape of platform development as it concerns privacy. As our industries fail to respect the rights of our users, there’s more and more pressure to legislate consumer protections with the government,…
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Customer Data Platforms
Five Ways Martech Companies Play the Long Game Given an Expected 28% Drop in Marketing Spend
The Coronavirus pandemic has brought its own set of challenges and lessons from a societal, personal, and business perspective. Due to economic uncertainty and frozen sales opportunities, it’s been challenging to maintain new business growth. And now that Forrester expects a possible 28% drop in marketing spend over the next two years, some of the 8,000+ martech companies may be (inefficiently)…
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Advertising Technology
6 Technology Trends Every Marketer Should Know About
It’s no secret that marketing trends emerge with technological changes and innovations. If you want your business to stand out, attract new customers, and increase its visibility online, you’ll need to be proactive about tech changes. Think of tech trends in two ways (and your mindset will make the difference between successful campaigns and crickets in your analytics): Either take…
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Content Marketing
Our New Martech Zone Logo Unveiled for 2019
One area that I didn’t invest in branding was this site. While my company had a great logo that I love, and we work with all of our clients on their branding, I wasn’t available to work on the Martech Zone brand. The old M symbol was a slightly modified illustration I purchased hastily after switching the domain. It was…
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Customer Data Platforms
Martech: The Three Keys to Solving Marketing’s Massive Technology Problem
All too often, technology becomes the personification of success. I’ve been guilty of it, too. Technology is easy to buy and, therefore, feels like an instant upgrade! The first decade of the 2000s was all about inbound, so we raced toward marketing automation with open arms; in a dust of purchase orders and definitive guides – we were off and…
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Advertising Technology
SQream: How Big Data Analytics Have Become Crucial for DSPs
The stakes have never been higher for marketers managing real-time bids, programmatic advertising, and customer targeting. Budgets are under pressure. Expectations are sky-high. And campaign optimization isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s the difference between wasted spend and sustained ROI. That’s why big data analytics has evolved from a supporting role into a strategic linchpin for demand-side platforms (DSPs). DSPs operate in…
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Content Marketing
You’re Probably Spending More Time Managing Data Than Marketing
Yesterday, I shared how we batch loaded an entire year of social updates. While quite a bit of work went into the research, our team spent quite a few hours just massaging the data and making it a file that could be uploaded. Even after we passed all validation checks, we had to then manually go through and select or…
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Content Marketing
Why We Rebranded to Martech Zone and Changed Our Domain
The term blog is an interesting one. Years ago, when I wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies, I loved the term blog because it denoted a sense of personality and transparency. Companies no longer had to depend on pitching the news to reveal their culture, news, or advancements. They could broadcast those out via their corporate blog and build a community…
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Advertising Technology
Balloons, Bubble Gum, and Martech: Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Unlike balloons and bubble gum, Martech won’t burst when extended to what seems like a breaking point. Instead, the Martech industry will continue to shift and stretch and adjust to change and innovation—just as it’s done over the past several years. It may seem that the industry’s current growth is unsustainable. Many have asked whether the martech industry—distended by more than…
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Content Marketing
Martech Zone: Welcome To My New Martech Publication!
It’s only been a year since I last reskinned our WordPress site. While I liked the layout, I had a ton of plugins and customizations to make it function the way I wanted it, too. With WordPress, that can begin to spell disaster from a performance standpoint and I was seeing the cracks in the foundation. So, I went on…
