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Zero-Party Data: An Explainer

Zero-party data is here and it's one of the best ways to connect with customers. Learn more about zero-party data and how we collect it.

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Zero, First, Second, and Third Party Data: What's the Difference?

Where should you focus your data-related intentions? What data, when collected, has a good balance of quality, reach, and customer trust?Â

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Your Guide to MarTech Tool Consolidation

Download this eBook to learn about the three main benefits to simplifying your tech stack and avoiding tool fatigue across your digital teams.

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Your Guide to Customer Data Platforms (CDP) vs Data Management Platforms (DMP)

Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and Data Management Platforms (DMPs) are often confused with eachother, but they are not the same. Download to learn more.

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Your Guide to Aligning branding and marketing with creative automation

Discover how branding and marketing can be aligned to face present-day challenges in an agile way

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Your Buyer is Telling You Their Story. But Are You Listening?

The new B2B buyer journey is anything but linear. Learn how to plan a buyer-centric and omnichannel marketing and sales funnel with precision demand marketing.

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You've Heard of Shadow IT, but Have you Heard of Shadow Creative?

Discover the meaning of shadow creative and learn how creative automation can protect companies from the dangers posed by this practice.

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WTF NFT - The Top 10 NFTs You Can Buy Right Now

It's only been a couple of weeks since the world went NFT-mad, putting bids on that random meme that lives in the recesses of your 15-year-old mind, or buying artwork that can never actually be hung..

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WTF Is Unstructured Data, and Is It the Future of Data Management?

According to the latest figures, the volume of unstructured data is set to grow from 33 zettabytes in 2019 to 175 zettabytes, or 175 Billion terabytes, by 2025. That's an unfathomable amount

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WTF Is the Metaverse, and What Does It Mean for Marketers?

Basically, the idea behind the metaverse is to create a space similar to the internet, but more tangible, in so the fact that users can interact with the world via digital avatars. Plus, unlike the..

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WTF are Rich Snippets?

Rich snippets can give your pages the edge in search results. We look at what snippets are, and how you can use them to promote your content more effectively.

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Workflow Management Best Practice Guide

In this guide, we’ll take a deep dive into the growing market of workflow management tech. We’ll focus on what it is, how it works, and why now is a good time to invest in a robust workflow..

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Women's History Month - Sinem Soydar Ganal

Meet Sinem Soydar GĂźnal, Global Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Vodafone.Â She's a digital strategist with 17 years of digital transformation, marketing, communication, channel management and..

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Women's History Month - Julie Alexander

Meet Julie Alexander, Head of Marketing at Relay42. Relay42âs platform for Intelligent Journey Orchestration empowers businesses to create meaningful customer relationships by utilizing smart..

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Women's History Month - Holly Chen

Meet Holly Chen, Growth Advisor. She advises early and growth stage B2B and B2C companies to unlock and scale growth opportunities. Holly also serve as interim Head of Marketing or Head of Growth for..

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Women's History Month - Dr Christine Bailey

Meet Dr. Christine Bailey, Managing Director, SMB UK & Ireland | CMO at Valitor.

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Women's History Month - Anita Brearton

Meet Anita Brearton, Founder/CEO of CabinetM. CabinetM help modern marketing teams manage the technology they have and find the tools they need.

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Women's History Month - Amy Rodgers

Meet Amy Rodgers, Managing Editor, Research & Rankings at WARC. WARC's mission is to the save the world from ineffective marketing. They do this by providing the latest evidence, expertise and..

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Women's History Month - Amy McManus

Meet Amy McManus, CEO/Founder of AM Marketing a full-service marketing agency based in the UK. Amy is a UK Women of the Future finalist, freeman of the London Guild of Entrepreneurs, an Associate..

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Women in Martech: Building Support, Promoting STEM, and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome.

What is the experience of women in Martech? Can it be improved through Building Support systems, Promoting STEM, and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome? Studies have shown that women hold less tech..

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Will GPT-3 and Language Models Replace Your Content Team?

Though inferring word probabilities from context, LLMs can build an abstract understanding of natural language, which can be used for a bunch of different tasks. So will they replace your content..

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Why your Social Media Strategy Still Matters this Holiday Season

With over 70% of APAC consumers planning to proceed with their holiday shopping digitally this year, optimising a successful social media strategy is vital.

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Why You Should Use Direct Mail in Your ABM Campaigns

There are many benefits of ABM. As a long-term process and campaign, it can really pay off. In fact, 99% of businesses say account engagement is higher for ABM accounts.

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Why You Should Make Room in Your Stack for a CDP

Rather than seeing a CDP as an addition to your stack, start seeing CDPs as the glue that connects your stack together. A CDP could be the solution to integrating and connecting your customer data.

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Why You Can't Afford to Ignore Digital Marketing Attribution - BluprintX

You can't afford to ignore digital marketing attribution, it needs to be used to drive growth and success in 2021 and beyond

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Why We're All in the Business of Trust

In 2020, as people around the world struggle with their governments, Big Tech, social media and â simply put â each other, weâre all looking for a little trust.

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Why Virtual Events Might Actually be Good News for Marketers

While face-to-face contact is irreplaceable, virtual events offer a lot of advantages over traditional events, conferences, meet-ups and webinars.

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Why Social Listening Can Be a Valuable B2B Marketing Tactic

Social listening can be a very useful B2B tactic. In this article, we look at how B2B companies can use social listening, and some tools to check out.

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Why Precision Demand Marketing Starts With the Demand Acceleration Platform

Today, buyers call the shots, as they should. As a result, we need to rethink our B2B marketing strategies. We need to be buyer-driven and act with more precision, more touchpoints, and greater..

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Why Omnichannel Marketing Is Key to Customer Engagement

How do you crawl, walk, and run to omnichannel marketing? This question was at the core of LXAs recent Web Sesh, Driving Customer Engagement in a Distracted World

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Why Marketing Operations is the Hottest Rising Profession and how You can Capitalize on it

As the martech stack goes beyond just automation, and as it absorbs more of the sales cycle, tech becomes a centre focus. From the embracing of these new technologies comes the need to hire..

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Why Marketing Executives Need to Speak Marketing Operations (MOPs)

Senior Marketing executives need to better understand their Marketing Operations team if they want to achieve their strategic objectives. Learn why!

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Why it's Time to Break the Rules of B2B Marketing

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Acquia CMO Lynne Capozzi explains why the idea of differences between B2B and B2C marketing no longer applies. We're all marketing to humans.

Thereâs no such thing as âdoing business..

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Why it's Important for the CMO to be Friends with Sales and CSM

Why it's Important for the CMO to be Friends with the Head of Sales and CSM.

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Why is Zero Party Data the Future?

Zero party data is a window into how privacy and customer experience will work in the future. Zero party data is when a customer willingly and proactively shares information with a company. This..

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Why Is Email Production So Hard? And What You Can Do About It

There is so much that goes into making one email. It can take over two days to create and execute a new email campaign, according to 40% of companies. So why is email production so hard? And what can..

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Why is Creative Content Essential to Crafting Powerful Digital Experiences? [2/4]

Digital experience isthe hottest (and most profitable) trend in marketing right now. As the digital world continues to expand, so do customer expectations.

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Why Is Accounting Giant Intuit Buying Mailchimp?

This week, Intuit announced the acquisition of email marketing platform Mailchimp for ÂŁ12bn. What's it all about?Â

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Why Half of the Money I Spend on AI is Wasted

This will be a roundup of AI/ML trends/adoptions across marketing functions as Kashyap Kompella explores how half of the money he spends on AI is a waste!

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Why Everyone is Talking About CDPs

Watch on-demand: Join Lourenco Mello, Product Marketer at Snowflake, to learn why operating with a CDP as a separate silo is a risky idea... and ways to supercharge your campaigns with a different..

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Why Ecosystem Thinking is the Key to Martech Agency and Vendor Success

Courtesy of Forrester, the new 2021 Channel Software Tech Stack has been released and it showcases the huge growth the martech landscape is seeing!

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Why Diversity Shouldn't Be A Buzzword or KPI

Why Diversity shouldn't be a buzzword or a KPI. The importance of diversity in the industry and how the industry can progress.

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Why Did Twilio Acquire Segment?

Letâs dive into what Twilio's latest acquisition of Segment really means for the platform.

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Why Creativity Matters More Than Ever

During challenging times, creativity has proven time and time again to be an ingredient which keeps us afloat and allows us to thrive.

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Why Content Agility Matters for B2B Marketers

B2B marketing is always changing. Technologies, market conditions, trends, the demands of consumers, Susan from Account's hair style. So, to keep up with this, you've got to remain agile and flexible.

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Why Community Based Marketing is Making a Comeback

What is Community Based Marketing? It is the approach to drive consumer behaviour based on direct contact with people and carried out within a community.

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Why CMOs Need to Close Campaign Gaps

CMOs are reliant on marketing operations and campaign teams to deliver solid campaign results.

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Why CMOs must embrace martech

A modern CMOs role is essentially half-tech. In companies where the CMO role is staying, they're looking to fill it with tech-capable marketers.

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Why Clean Data is Essential for Your Marketing

Yuck! Is that your data you've left lying around? Ugh, it's all mouldy. And what's this? More data under the bed? Right, it's time to clean all this up.

Marketing data is used to give marketers a..

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Why Centralising & Unifying Data is Mission Critical

In this digital age data is key for any modern-day marketer. But is simply collecting data as you go enough to keep up with this rapidly evolving industry?

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Why CDPs Have Become a Core Pillar of a Marketer's Stack

CDPs (Customer Data Platforms) are emerging to become at the heart of every marketer's stack, rather than just another addition.

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Why Books Should Become Part of your Content Marketing Strategy

How books can boost your content marketing strategy, helping to build your brand and audience.

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Why B2B Marketers Must Plan for a Cookie-less Future

B2B Marketers must prepare for a cookie-less future. Why? Well, because that's audiences demand. Discover what you need to know here.

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Why and When B2B Chatbots Fail (and 3 Examples When They Work!)

Chatting, the most human thing to do. Have a natter with your nan. Have a discussion with your dad. Have an argument with your aunt. Have a parley with your...postman. You get the idea. So why have..

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Who Won the Super Bowl Ad War 2021?

In the annual battle of the ads, who won the Super Bowl Ad War 2021?

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Who Were Steven Bartlett's Favourite Guests on Diary of a CEO?

Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast has been incredibly successful, with more than 5m downloads since it was launched.

Guests include a mixture of celebrities and business leaders, with Grace..

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Who Should Own the Salestech Budget? Marketing or Sales?

When the right salestech falls in the right sales team's hands, magical things can happen for your cash money. But who should own the budget - marketing or sales?

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Who Manages Martech? IT or Marketing?

The selection and operation of sometimes complex marketing technology raises a lot of questions around management and responsibility.

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Who is... Tom Goodwin?

Tom Goodwin is an expert in innovation and digital transformation, developing his image as a futurist and advocate for change over many years in the industry.

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Who is Vala Afshar?

Vala Afshar is an author and award-winning inventor of social technologies and customer services operations..he is the Digital Evangelist for Salesforce and boasts a considerable following on Twitter..

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Who is Trung Phan?

Trung Phan is a prominent figure in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and business, known for his expertise in the field and his entrepreneurial spirit.

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Who is Travis Wright?

Travis Wright is a leading figure in the digital space, vice-chairman for the World Tokenomic Forum, advisor for a multitude of companies across the industry, podcast host...oh and recent member of..

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Who is Tom Goodwin?

Tom Goodwin is a leading figure in the Digital Transformation space, speaker, consultant and EVP Head of Innovation at Zenith Media...oh and a new member of our Marketing Book Club with his ground..

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Who is Tom Fishburne?

Tom Fishburne is a leading figure in the Content Marketing space, launching Marketoonist to introduce a new method of communicating with the customers through his 'marketoons'...oh and recent member..

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Who is Tim Hughes?

Tim Hughes is a leading figure in the marketing and social selling space, co-founder of Digital Leadership Associates, keynote speaker, bestselling author...oh and recent member of our Marketing Book..

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Who is Tamara McCleary?

Tamara McCleary is a leading figure in the tech and futurist space, CEO for Thulium, brand expert and technology futurist for her own website TamaraMcCleary.com and creator of the RelationShift method

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Who is Steven Bartlett?

Steven Bartlett became one of the world's most influential and renowned social and creative leaders in just six short years, but who is he?

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Who is Simon Sinek?

Simon Sinek is an optimist, founder and bestselling author..his WHY concept not only gave him a global bestseller but made him a strong leader in the entrepreneurial space...oh and he's the recent..

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Who is Seth Godin?

Seth Godin is a leading figure in the Marketing space, starting up two businesses, writing 19 bestsellers as well as a much renowned blog... oh and recent member of our Marketing Book Club with his..

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Who is Scott Galloway?

Scott Galloway is a leading figure in the tech and marketing space, public speaker, clinical professor of marketing at New York University Stern School of Business, bestselling author...oh and recent..

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Who is Scott Brinker?

Scott Brinker is a leading figure in the Martech space, co-founder of Ion Interactive, current VP Platforms Eco-systems at Hubspot and bestselling author

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Who is Scott Brinker?

Scott Brinker is a leading figure in the Martech space, co-founder of Ion Interactive, current VP Platforms Eco-systems at Hubspot and bestselling author

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Who is Roland Smart?

Roland Smart is a leading figure in the Agile Marketing space, startup entrepreneur and VP at the Oracle corporate marketing group...oh and recent member of our Marketing Book Club who stopped to..

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Who is Robert Rose?

Robert Rose is a leading figure in the Content Marketing space, founder of the Content Advisory and Chief Strategy Advisor for the Content Marketing Institute, bestselling author...oh and recent..

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Who Is Richard Branson?

Richard Branson is an entrepreneur and bestselling author..his Virgin Group is now worth $19.5 billion and Richard himself ranks as the eighth richest person in Britain...oh and he's the recent..

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Who is Rand Fishkin?

Rand Fishkin is a leading figure in the marketing and startup space, founder of four businesses, bestselling author, avid blogger...oh and recent member of our Marketing Book Club with his most..

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Who is Paco the Pug?

You've seen him in on our website, on socials and on our emails but we think it's time for you to meet Paco the Pug

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Who is Neil Patel?

Neil Patel is an author and entrepreneur of three digital organisations..he also co-hosts the popular 'Marketing School' podcast alongside Eric Siu as well as authors his blog for marketing..check..

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Who is Jeanne Bliss?

Jeanne Bliss is the leading voice in the CX space, pioneering the role of Customer Experience Officer - a published author, founder, thought leader, founder president..oh and the latest guest to join..

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Who is Jay Baer?

Jay is a 7th generation entrepreneur, author of six books, and founder of five multi-million dollar companies.

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Who is Heather Cabot?

Heather Cabot is an advocate for women in tech, startup entrepreneur and investor and advisor...oh and recent member of our Marketing Book Club with her ground breaking book, Geek Girl Rising

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Who is Grace Beverley?

Who is Grace Beverley, otherwise known as GraceFitUK? The social media influencer and founder of the direct-to-consumer fitness brands TALA and Shreddy is making headlines!

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Who is Gary Vaynerchuk?

Gary Vaynerchuk is a leading figure in the entrepreneurial and social media marketing space, starting up three businesses, hosting his own Gary Vee podcast and writing a total of 9 groundbreaking..

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Who is Eric Ries?

Eric Ries is a leading figure in the marketing and entrepreneurial space, founder of the renowned Lean Startup approach and bestselling author...oh and recent member of our Marketing Book Club with..

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Who is Emily Chang?

Emily Chang is an author and TV anchor for numerous renowned networks from CNN to Bloomberg..she has interviewed some key tech entrpreneurs and has campaigned for startups around the industry..oh she..

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Who is David Raab?

David Raab is an independent consultant specialising in martech as well as the founder of the Consumer Data Platform Institute.. he is also the author of literally thousands of articles related to..

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Who is Darrell Alfonso?

Darrell Alfonso. He's one of the faces of marketing technology and he's a name you probably already know if you're on a website called MarTech Alliance. But how? What has Darrell done to get to where..

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Who is Chris J Snook?

Chris J Snook is a leading figure in the digital space, co-founder of multiple businesses including the World Tokenomic Forum, keynote speaker, bestselling author...oh and recent member of our..

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Who is Carlos Doughty?

This is a page about Carlos Doughty founder of the MarTech Alliance, the contents of which were definitely not influenced by Carlos Doughty and written by the MarTech Alliance editorial team of their..

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Who is Bernadette Jiwa?

Bernadette Jiwa is a brand strategist and brand storyteller, founder of the Story of Telling and the Right Company ...oh and recent member of our Marketing Book Club with her most recent book, Story..

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Who is Ann Handley?

Digital marketing and content expert. Writer and bestselling author. Keynote speaker and world's first Chief Content Office. #Queen, according to a Content Marketing World audience member. Who is Ann..

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Who is Aaron Ross?

Who is Aaron Ross, the man behind various best-selling sales and marketing books and the CEO and founder of Predictable Revenue?

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Who Do You Need to Hire For Your Metaverse Team?

Who Do You Need to Hire For Your Metaverse Team? With meta hiring 10,000 metaverse roles for the development of the metaverse. Who will companies need to hire?

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Which Social Media Platform Algorithm Will Work For You?

The algorithms of the biggest social media platforms are constantly changing. As the priorities of these companies shift, the strategies of content creators will need to as well.

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Where Does Influencer Marketing End and Ad Fraud Begin?

Are Instagram influencers key to authentic marketing? Or are they just another instance of using vanity metrics to profit off the advertising effort of brands?

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When Tech Alone is Not Enough: Shifting to a New Perspective

Alina talks about how companies still struggle to get the most out of their technology.

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When Should You Use a Hybrid Event? 5 Scenarios to Consider

The B2B marketing world is abuzz with hybrid events, an event format promising to meld together the best elements of physical and virtual events.

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What’s The Difference Between Web 1.0, Web 2.0, And Web 3.0?

You can't begin to understand Web 3.0 without looking at what came before. So, what is Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, and what will the web look like in the future?.

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What, Why, How of Salestech

Simply using a salestech tool isn't going to make anyone a natural-born salesperson. The tech can't replace the fundamentals of great salespeople and good processes, but by God can it supercharge..

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What, Why, How of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

Essentially, any digital asset, artwork, gif, meme handcrafted by a sarcastic teenager, can be turned into a collectable, and valuable, asset. How do NFTs work, and why should you be interested?

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What, Why, How of Marketing Technology - 4Ps of martech

It's our goal at the LXA to help make marketing technology simpleor at least simpler! What follows in our 4Ps of Marketing Technology guide, will provide you a practical framework for doing exactly..

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What, Why, How of Marketing Stack Management

A lot of change can unfold in the transformative digital world over the course of a year - we dont have to look much further than the progression of the Marketing Technology Landscape to be reminded.

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What, Why, How of Digital Selling

Digital selling is basically changing the way sales and prospecting is done. The tools and platforms now available to most sales people mean that, although traditional methods are still effective,..

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What, Why, How of Digital Out of Home Advertising

This year, digital out-of-home advertising is forecasted to capture 40% of OOH ad spending, making out of home (OOH) the only traditional advertising category that's still growing strong.Â

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What, Why, How of Digital Asset Management (DAM) Systems

DAM stands for Digital Asset Management and it pretty much does what it says on the tin: It’s a piece of software that helps you manage all your digital assets. Our latest guide explains more.

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What, Why, How of Data Privacy for Marketers

A guide for managing data privacy while creating effective marketing, with details of related legislation, and how technology can help you to manage customer data.

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What, Why, How of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) / Account Based Experience (ABX)

ABM is a strategic marketing approach that places personalised focus on targeted, key accounts.Â Our guide explains the benefits, and how to get started.

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What, Why, How of the Creator Economy

The creator economy refers to the monetisation of work made by independent creators. From vloggers, to streamers, to influencers, to YouTube dog chefs, the creator economy implies a shift in the..

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What, Why, How of 'Interactive Voice Experience'

More than 55% of US adults own smart speakers, or home products. 45 million use them every day, and 70 million at least monthly. How can marketers use this boom? But first, let's find out:

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What's The Secret Behind Companies with Great Sales and Marketing Alignment?

Oil and water. Toothpaste and orange juice. Sales and marketing. Sometimes things just don't go together. That last one, though? That one really needs to come together.

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What's the Role of a Modern Sales Enablement Manager?

What is the job and role of a Sales Enablement Manager? As a Sales Enablement Manager, you're the go-to person for sales reps whenever they need to brush up on their knowledge. You don't just have to..

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What's The Difference Between Web 1.0, Web 2.0, And Web 3.0?

What is Web 3.0? Well, you can't begin to understand the third one, without understanding what came before it. So, what is Web 1.0? What is Web 2.0? And what will the web look like in the future?

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What's the Difference Between First-Party and Third-Party Data? A Marketerâs Guide

Digital advertisers have long relied on third-party cookie data to track web activity. However, these methods are becoming obsolete as the demand for greater data privacy forces marketers to adapt..

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What's the Difference Between Creative Ops and Design Ops Anyway?

There is a shift happening within the design culture of your organization. With the specialization of the creative and design ops roles, the structure of teams is changing, and it has significant..

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What Will Your Customers Want Next? This Simple Framework Helps You Stay Ahead of the Curve

This simple yet powerful framework can help you anticipate customer needs & unlock innovation opportunities regardless of your business, product or sector.

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What Privacy Issues Will Haunt the Metaverse?

The metaverse is a complex space. So, any issues surrounding its implementation and use are bound to be equally tricky.

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What Marketing Looked Like in the Last Pandemic

Looking back through the lens of time at what marketers were communicating to consumers then, reminds us that the human experience hasn't changed all that much.

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What Marketers Need to Know About Omnichannel Customer Journey Mapping & Experiences

Increasingly, business isn’t all about the product—it’s about the customer experience (CX). But according to a recent Forbes survey commissioned by Treasure Data, while three-quarters of business..

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What Is Zero Party Data and How Can You Use It?

Zero party data is when a customer willingly and proactively shares information with a company. This might include product preferences, personal details and context, or how they want to be identified..

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What is Web 3.0 Marketing?

"Another one?!" I hear you say. "I can barely keep up with the one we've got. I haven't even got a Twitter account yet!" Wowee. Wait until you hear about the Metaverse.

So, what is it? Where is..

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What is the ROI of brand equity, and how does DAM serve as insurance for your brand?

Discover the three main ROIs of brand equity and learn how your company can achieve these with a digital asset management system in place.

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What is the Recession Playbook for Marketing Leaders?

Gartner uncovers 9 actions marketing leaders can take to win through recession

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What is The Future Of SalesTech?

Sales tech has seen quite a few years of sustained growth, with investment rising dramatically. But what does its future look like?

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What is the Future of AI in Marketing?

With such tech as AI, the whole industry and way of working will likely change. Though change is scary, it does mean unprecedented progress, efficiency, and effectiveness. It also means AI has to..

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What is The Ethereum Merge, and Should Marketers Care?

It's finally happened. The Ethereum Merge has started its first stages. But why should marketers care?

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What is the Difference Between First-Party and Zero-Party Data?

What is the difference between first- and zero-party data? As third-party cookies are phased out, youâre likely hearing more and more talk about first-party data. And if youâre in the marketing..

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What is the AR Cloud?

"Oh, another one of these terms", I hear you say. "What about the mega-space, or the augmented funnel forest. Or even the virtual reality hybrid tornado." Well, trust us on this one. It's pretty cool.

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What is Social Selling and Why is it Trending?

Social selling is trending in the world of salestech. From connecting, commenting, liking, or sharing potential customers activity, sales reps can create meaningful relationships and increase their..

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What is scrum?

Sadly no, weâre not talking about rugby playersâŚbut we are going to tackle the subject of scrum (#sorrynotsorry).

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What is Preference Management?

What is preference management? Preference management combines data privacy and customer choiceÂ to empower users to manage brand communications.Â Other benefits include organizationalÂ compliance,..

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What is People-based Marketing?

People-based marketing is taking a pretty personal approach. When using it, brands can customise messaging, customer experience, and deliver campaigns at just the right time. Every customer is an..

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What is Natural Language Processing (NLP) Based Marketing?

Natural Language Processing or NLP is a type of artificial intelligence. It basically allows for computers to interpret language like a human being, using this insight to write and respond in a..

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What is Natural Language Generation, and is it the Future of Content?

Gartner estimates that by 2020, natural language generation and artificial intelligence will be a standard feature of 90 percent of modern BI platforms. So, this is where NLG comes in.Â

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What is Metatech?

Meta-this, meta-that. What happened to good ol' NFTs. Ah, a simpler time. But what is metatech, and what does it mean for the future of well, everything?

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What is MarTech?

What exactly is martech and why is it so important? Marketing technology, or âmartechâ as it is so often referred, is one of those buzzwords that you hear popping up outside of the digital sphere..

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What is Marketing Ops?

Not that long ago, the Marketing Operations role didn't exist. Now, 60% of large tech companies have hired staff into a formal Marketing Operations role. So, what is is?

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What is Madtech, and Why Should I Care?

MadTech is just a bunch of people in an abandoned warehouse, beads and whistles on, music pulsing, dancing round the latest iteration of the iPad. Someone's remixed Alexa. Steve Jobs is there. Wait,..

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What is Lead Gen Technology?

A good lead generation tool provides an efficient and effective solution to increase your customer base and maximise sales. These tools will preferably integrate with existing marketing or CRM..

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What is Intelligent Time Email Sending?

Turns out Intelligent Time is not when you drink 5 Red bulls, eat a handful of Skittles, and go into your High School Geography exam. That's called The Big Brain Event and it's a completely different..

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What is Influencer Marketing?

A little insight into the ever-expanding strategy of influencer marketing, and how you can go about adopting the renowned approach.

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What is Google Analytics 4? Your FAQs Answered

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What is Good Content Marketing?

Most people spend nearly seven hours every day online. As a brand, this gives you an opportunity to be a part of whatever people are watching, reading, or listening to in the form of content.

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What Is Foot in the Door Theory and How Should You Use It?

What is foot in the door theory in marketing and sales and how can you implement it in your marketing strategy?

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What Is Ethical AI and Is It Important?

There's a lot of mention of something called Ethical AI in digital marketing today, but what is it and how does it impact you?

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What is Direct-to-Avatar?

Cutting out the middleman, and bypassing humans completely, Direct-to-avatar might change the face of consumer business models for good.

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What Is Digital Transformation, and Where Does Martech Fit In?

I'll look at what digital transformation is, why it's necessary, and the part played by martech in an effective transformation strategy.

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What is De-Fi, and How Can it Benefit Marketers?

As of January 2021, approximately $20.5 billion was invested in De-Fi. So, what is this term you've heard your 15-year-old nephew chatting about with his friends on Discord? Also what's a TikTok? Who..

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What is Dark Social, and Why Should I Care?

'Dark Social' is when users will share content via private channels, such as email, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or text. Is it as spooky as it sounds?

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What is Customer Management, and Why is it so Important?

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways people engage with brands and how they expect brands to engage with them. Read how.

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What Is Customer Experience and Why Does It Matter?

We look at the growing importance of customer experience, how it can be measured, improved, and how technology can help.

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What Is Conversational Marketing?

Conversational marketing is above all a customer-centric approach. It is dialogue-driven, easy, and accessible. So, it's no surprise that it's become the go-to strategy for driving customer..

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What Is Conversational Account-Based Marketing ?

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If we think about martech maturity vs marketer tech skills maturity, you have to imagine it like this: one is wearing chinos in a wine bar, talking about taxes. The other is kicking the stuffing out..

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The Marketing Operations Playbook for 2024

Watch on-demand: Discover the essential strategies, skills, and tools for marketing success in 2024 and beyond. Unveiling the Marketing Operations Playbook for 2024 with Darrell Alfonso. Gain..

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The Marketers Roadmap To Success In The Cookieless Future: 3 Things You Should Know

In a cookieless climate where customer consent is front and centre, how can marketers optimise their first-party data strategy?

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The Lead Funnel is Broken. Try Cross-Channel Activation Instead

More leads often just means more work for you, because if the funnel is stuffed full of contacts gathered just to meet goals, you’ll more likely create a blockage than create new business.

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The Latest Trends in Digital Marketing, According to the Gartner Hype Cycle 2020

The latest Digital Marketing trends as predicted in Gartner's Hype Cycle, 2020.

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The Instagram and Facebook Algorithm Updates for 2023

Social media platforms, and the demands of their users, are continuously evolving, updating, and shifting. So, marketers need to be constantly aware of the changes in order to remain on the feeds,..

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The ingredients to successfully driving omnichannel personalisation at scale

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The Ingredients to Successfully Driving Omnichannel Personalisation

Learn how to drive omnichannel personalisation at scale on your site with the help of Apoorv Durga, who will be talking at our MarTech Fest DialUp!

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The How and Why of Customer Satisfaction Surveys

Customer satisfaction surveys can be so valuable, if you ask the right questions, and design your surveys well. Here are our seven best practices for satisfaction surveys.

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The Holy Grail for Digital Experience: A Self-Guided Customer Journey

Marketers are obsessed with the customer journey, and for good reason. The best way to deliver a next-best action requires not only understanding how an individual has interacted with your brand, but..

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The History of Thunderhead

A big hitter in the software game, Thunderhead have become a recognised leader in the customer engagement and customer journey orchestration market since their founding in 2001. We explore the last..

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The History of Salesforce

Based in the Salesforce Tower in San Fran, Salesforce reached the high heights of $21.25 billion of revenue in 2021 alone. What's the story behind Saleforce?

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The History of Marketo

Marketo is one of the most connected and open marketing platforms available to marketers, and supports both large enterprises and small businesses, across a bunch of different industries.

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The History of Hubspot

After meeting at MIT in 2004, Brain Halligan and Dharmesh Shah realised people were completely changing how they shopped. No longer did the whole pop-up, invasive, attention-grabbing techniques work...

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The History of Acquia

We look at the rise of Acquia from 2005 to the present day.

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The Growth of the Experience Economy

Basically, the experience economy is, as Harvard Business Review suggests, when a "company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as props, to engage individual customers in a way that..

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The future of digital working - perspectives from a tribe of GenZ marketing consultants

Watch this session from Jay Richards, founder of Imagen Insights, a qualitative and quantitative insight sourcing company from the global Gen Z community.

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The Future of Data in the Metaverse

The metaverse, and Web 3.0, have an opportunity to start from scratch. How can this new industry avoid the mistakes of the past?

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The Fall of Internet Explorer: Where It Lost Out to Rivals

Internet Explorer used to be everyone's favourite browser, but why did it die? Why does no-one use Internet Explorer anymore?

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The Facts Behind Why Marketing Gamification Works

It's no secret that effective marketing needs to engage the customers in a meaningful way. At Leadfamly, we've always believed that by using game mechanics in your marketing, brands are able to..

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The Evolution of Digital Messaging Excellence

The Evolution of Digital Messaging Excellence report looks at the role that mobile push and app notifications play in omnichannel marketing strategies.

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The Event Plannerâs Plan for Hybrid Event Data

In the last year, event planners have had to pivot their entire strategy to digital, unlocking a more dynamic, personalized experience while reaching a much larger audience than possible with..

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The Essential Guide to Video for Business

Is your business unlocking the potential of video? Discover video for business tricks and tips engage, entertain and convert your audience.

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The Eight Types of Digital Marketing that You Should Know

The 8 main types of digital marketing that you should know about if you considering advertising your products or services online...

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The Different Flavours of a CDP

Apoorv Durga delivers another knock-out sesh: âThe Different Flavours of a CDPâ at AntiConLX DialUp Series 2

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The Dangers of Automation Without Orchestration

You often hear of Automation and Orchestration, but what are they and can you have one in your company without the other?

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The Customer Data Platform: An Acxiom Point of View

Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) address the need for a single customer view across data and marketing channels. Many vendors have entered the CDP space very quickly.

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The Biggest Martech Deals of 2021

As we enter 2021 we take a look back at the biggest marketing technology deals we witnessed in 2020

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The Big Tech Execs get a grilling from the Antitrust Hearing

Tech giant CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google testified before congress following investigations from U.S. federal state Antitrust Officials.

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The Bestest and Most Funnest Marketing Books Money Can Buy

There's a whole lot of marketing and business books out there, but which ones are the best and most entertaining, rather than just educational

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The Best of Hybrid, In-person and Virtual Experiences

I pitched this article to my manager and one of the words I used in my provisional title resulted in me hearing him swear for the first time. On reflection, I am ashamed of the word I used. Itâs..

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The Best Marketing Virtual Events/Conferences to Attend in 2020Hopin takes even more investment - what does this tell us about the events tech space?

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The Best Marketing Events & Business Conferences for 2020: APAC Edition

Planning on attending a marketing event in the APAC region? The LXA has saved you the effort, and put together a comprehensive list of the all of the best events in 2020!

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The Best Marketing Events & Business Conferences for 2020

Planning on attending a marketing event in 2020? Not sure what to pick? The LXA has saved you the effort, and put together a comprehensive list of the best events in 2020!

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The Art of Leveraging Commerce Data to Create Personalised, End-to-End Marketing Campaigns

big data can be intimidating to businesses. Whether you're experiencing inadequacy with data quality, literacy, or tools, it can be tough for both B2B and B2C companies to make headway with data. But..

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The Absolute Best Brand Experiences of 2020: Top 5 Vertical Trends

Get ready for the absolute best brand experiences of 2021 - see which verticals had the top experiences!

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The Absolute Best Brand Experiences of 2020

Tune in to see the stunning creativity and exciting ways brands were collecting zero-party data in 2020.

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The A to Z of SalesTech Terminology

We've put together a list of the top Salestech terms. Consider this your comprehensive dictionary of SalesTech phrases, acronyms and abbreviations.

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The A to Z of Martech Terminology

A comprehensive dictionary of martech terms and acronyms, helping you to understand DXPs, CDPS, data-driven marketing and much more.

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The 3 R's of Data Conflation

Data is not only the language of computing and of business, increasingly it's the language of life, every day.

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The 3 Biggest Updates in Wearable Tech

With shipments reaching over 533M in 2021, boosted by the development of 5G, wearable tech is becoming a reality for many consumers.

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The 2024 CX Playbook for Success: Developing and Aligning Your Vision Right Through to Your Martech Roadmap

Watch on-demand: The 2024 CX Playbook for Success: Developing and Aligning Your Vision Right Through to Your Martech Roadmap

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The 2021 SalesTech Landscape has Landed

Nancy Nardin and her trusty team at Smart Selling Tools have just released the 2021 SalesTech Landscape for the world to see.

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The 13 Most Expensive NFTs Ever Sold

NFTs have created a new form of exchange. This new economy offers freedom and decentralisation for creators, artists, and even brands.

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Ten of the Worst Marketing Mistakes Ever to Grace Our Planet

We present ten of the worst marketing mistakes, with examples from Gap, Pepsi, Apple and more.

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Tech that is transforming traditional reading

Are books being phased out and replaced with eBooks, apps, audiobooks and more, or is the humble book now a luxury item?

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Tap into Data to Drive Birthday and Milestone Campaigns

Everyone loves moments when a family member or friend remembers something about you and shares that with you, like a birthday, anniversary, or memory. Those moments are meaningful ways to connect..

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Take a look at the 2021 European Martech Supergraphic

Courtesy of MartechTribe, the new 2021 European Martech Supergraphic has been released and it showcases the huge growth the martech landscape is seeing!

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Swedish MarTech Landscape revealed

The team at Avaus are at it again releasing their THIRD martech landscape. This time they turned the spotlight on Sweden, highlighting over 150 companies providing marketing technology solutions.

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Suspension of Disbelief in Marketing

There is always a (healthy) suspicion that we don't always, maybe, say everything in marketing. Often the best way to make a point is not to take a real situation but take the point you are making..

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Suppress your Audience, Liberate your ROI

How audience suppression can improve the efficiency of your ad campaigns , increase effectiveness and improve brand reputation.

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Superpowers for Supermarketeers: How to power-up your content machine in 4 steps

Watch on-demand: top tips and best practices to optimise tools and workflows for productivity and ROI,

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Supernova: Centralised Data Platforms blow sh*t up at The Economist

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Supercharge Your Marketing Strategy: Top Tips To Retain Customers

While customer acquisition and marketing initiatives to generate new customers is important, customer retention of existing high-value customers is key. If you are focusing most of your marketing..

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Supercharge Your Marketing Strategy: Top Tips to Grow Your Customer Base

Regardless of what industry you are in, it's a well-established rule that around 80% of a company's revenue comes from 20% of its customers.

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Supercharge Your Marketing Strategy: Top Tips to Acquire Customers

One of the most important journeys for digital brands is how new prospects and customers are introduced to your products or services. Read all about how to start supercharging your acquisition..

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Super Bowl Marketing: Stats and Trends for 2023

Who are the winners and losers in the Super Bowl advertising space? Here's some statistics and trends to help you figure it out.

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Super Bowl Marketing: Stats and Trends for 2022

Who are the winners and losers in the Super Bowl advertising space? Here's some statistics and trends to help you figure it out.

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Success Journey: How Condé Nast Uses a Customer Data Platform to Create Business Value

Watch on-demand: a deep dive into the world of business value creation with the current MarTech focused on CDP.

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Stop Procrastinating and Start Planning Your Post-Cookie Marketing Strategy

Yes, the death of third-party cookies has been delayed. No, savvy brands shouldn't procrastinate and just wait to see what happens. It's time to act!

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SparkPost Product Updates to Accommodate Appleâs Mail Privacy Protection

As you have likely heard (and may be stressing about), Apple really rocked the email world when they announced in June that they were planning to anonymize open activity for their email users.

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South Western Railway Chooses Acxiom and Tealium to Transform its CX

Both the pandemic and GDPR regulation have changed the way the travel industry understands and interacts with its customers. As the industry enters its recovery, South Western Railway chose Acxiom..

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SOPs (Sales Operations Professionals): The Role Explained

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Social Video Marketing: Stats and Trends for 2021

What is the best social media platform to use for your video marketing? Here are a few stats to help you decide.

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Social Media Management Buyer Guide

Social media has come a long way since its first incarnation as forums and message boards.

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Social listening - Marketing to the New Mainstream: An agile approach to trend & audience intelligence

An agile approach to trend and audience intelligence. Combining conversational and behavioural data to help understand audiences.

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Social listening - How to Better Understand Your Customers And Their Sources of Influence

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Smart Growth for Small & Medium Businesses With ABM

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Skills and Tech Are the Main Barriers to Great Customer Experience

While organisations agree that great customer experience provides a key competitive advantage, just 23% of marketers think they are exceeding customer's CX expectations.Â

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Six Sales Books You Need to Read Right Now

We went and asked a few of our residential sales experts to recommend their favourite sales books

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Six of the Biggest Developments in the Metaverse Space

Recently companies have been taking huge steps, both overt and covert, into creating metaverse infrastructure. And with the martech landscape ramping up, and changing rapidly, it's not impossible..

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Six Marketing Books You Need to Read Right Now

Tom Corley, the author of Rich Habits, found that people who make more than $160,000 a year read for self-improvement, education, and success. On the other hand, those with an annual income of..

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Sitecore Receives a Record Breaking $1.2 Billion Investment

Digital experience management software, Sitecore, made martech history as it announced an incredible $1.2 billion investment.

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Singapore Institute of Technology Can Now Build Webpages in Less than 30 Minutes with Acquia Cloud Platform

To achieve higher efficiency, consistency and scalability in managing their web content, the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) turned to Acquia.

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SHUT UP and Listen to your Smart Speaker

Maria Reyes, Marketing Director at Bauer Media talks about voice technology and how she ended up doing voice for Bauer.

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Should Marketers Invest in Personalised Video Content?

80% of Twitter users say they prefer video content. Hubspot reported that over 50% of consumers want to see more video content from brands they follow. So the audience is there. Now, it's up to you..

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Seven Key Insights From MarTech Alliance's 2021 Research

The MarTech industry saw a very interesting year. And we've had our fingers on the pulse of all aspects of the space. So, what have our reports being saying about industry developments, changes, and..

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Seven B2B Marketing Trends you should know about

The best B2B marketing trends that you need to know about if you run, deal with, or work in a B2B marketing business...

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Seth Godin on B2B Personalisation Perfection

What does marketer, speaker, teacher, author, all-round great guy Seth Godin have to say? What does he think about the challenges and opportunities of perfecting a personalisation strategy? What he..

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SEO Technology Buyer Guide

In this guide we’ll examine the SEO technology tools which help businesses of all sizes manage the different aspects of their SEO strategy.

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SEO Platform BrightEdge Acquires OnCrawl

BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, has today announced the acquisition of OnCrawl.Â BrightEdge and Oncrawl have been in discussions about the future of the SEO industry and the development of..

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Sendoso Bags $100 Million Funding in Series C Investment Rounds

Corporate gifting platform Sendoso has managed to raise $100 million in it's series C rounds as SoftBank, via its Vision Fund 2, became new investors!

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Searching for Meaning: Alternatives to Google Offering Added Extras, from Privacy to Planting Trees.

Google have always pretty much had a monopoly in the West over our searches, whether you're looking for new top hats, or trying to figure out whyÂ that specific body part is doing that. New consumers..

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Search tech - No Wrong Answers: Search, Lies and Experiences

John talks about the challenges presented by search, opportunities that have come around by change and ways ahead.

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Scott Brinker: From Big Data to Big Ops

We are in an era moving away from big data, to the era of big ops. So, how do we go from big data, with a scale and complexity of data collected, stored and analysed, to big ops, with the scale and..

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Scott Brinker's Martech Predictions for the Decade to Come

MarTech Conference kicked off with a session from the Godfather of martech himself, Scott Brinker and if you missed it, donât sweat weâre about to give you to run down.

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Scott Brinker's 5 Insights Into The Martech Trend: of 'No Code' Citizen Creators

Where will the possibilities of technology lead us one decade from now? One key trend predicted by Scott Brinker and Jason Baldwin for the decade of the augmented marketer is âNo Codeâ Citizen..

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Scheduling Start-Up, Calendly Raises $350M

Calendly, a cloud-based service used to set up and schedule meeting times have closed an investment of $300 million and is now valued at $3 billion.

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SAP to Acquire Emarsys to Boost Customer Experience Business

SAP to acquire Emarsys to boost Customer Experience business for an undisclosed amount.

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Salestech: What it is and Why it Matters

Marketing and sales teams are merging like never before, making it crucial for marketers to be clued up on the world of salestech. Find out more here

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Salestech: Stats and Trends for 2023

What does the current and future salestech landscape look like? Here's some statistics and trends to help you figure it out.

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Salestech Continues to Explode: Highspot Raises $200 Million

Salestech continues to explode as Highspot announces cashing in $200 million in their latest Series E funding.

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SalesTech Buyer Guide (2nd edition)

Salestech is where sales and technology meet.

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Salesforce Signs the Deal with Slack for $27.7 Billion

The deal is done. Salesforce has acquired Slack for an impressive $27.7 Billion.

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Salesforce in Talks to Buy Slack Technologies

Software super giant, Salesforce is in talks to acquire workplace messaging app, Slack as it seeks to expand its offerings to businesses, sources reported on Wednesday.

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Sales Enablement, Sales Operations & SalesTech Periodic Table

Our new periodic table brings together all the essential elements of Sales Enablement, Sales Operations, and SalesTech excellence. This periodic table serves to identify what needs auditing and..

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Sales Enablement & Sales Operations Best Practice Guide

In this guide, we will explore the key components of effective sales enablement and efficient sales operations, and provide practical advice for those looking to implement a sales enablement strategy.

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Sales and Marketing Alignment: Stats and Trends for 2022

Sales stand on one side of the ice. Marketing on the other. Both wear matching sequinned leotards. The music starts, the spot light turns on.

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ROX: Where CX and EX overlap

We all know what CX is here. Most of us know what EX is too. But do we know what ROX is? The chances are that knowing the term Return on Investment shortens to ROI, then you can work out that ROX..

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Rise of the Machines: Can A Business Be Run Entirely By AI?

We’ve long considered the possibility of machines taking over our lives and dominating business, but could it really happen? Will everything in your office soon be run by machines?

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Reverse ETL vs CDPs: Who Will Win?

The world of data analytics is rapidly evolving; with it, new technologies and methodologies are emerging. Two technologies that are becoming increasingly popular are Reverse ETL and Customer Data..

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Revenue Attribution â itâs All in The Way That You Sell it

It's just a matter of time before marketing operations and automation professionals get asked by the CMO to create better revenue attribution models and reporting, and start trying to push the..

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Retro Tech: The Second Coming of Direct Mail

We all get that it's a challenge connecting with consumers. Digitally, the market is flooded with newsletters and tweets and emails and coupons and love letters and Facebook posts. So, how do you..

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Retro Tech: Is SMS messaging making a comeback?

But SMS marketing is making a comeback. Its usage actually increased by 197% between 2015 and 2017 alone. This is particularly true in the B2B space, where clients would rather text with a business..

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Retro Tech: Are Silent Videos Making A Comeback?

Between 83%-92% of that content is watched without the viewer turning the audio on.Â Plus, video posts have 135% higher organic reach than regular photo posts, so you need to make the absolute most..

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Retro Tech: Are QR codes making a comeback?

Flavilla is a recognised leader in marketing, and for good reason. and now, she's coming to speak at this year's AntiConLX Global. So, we've sat down to talk with her, about all things tech,..

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Retro Tech: Are Plain Text Emails the Future (As Well As the Past)?

Plain text emails are still incredibly valuable in 2021. Although they might not be as immediately striking as HTML-based emails, they can play a really important part in a company's email marketing..

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Retailers Must Prepare to Scale in the Post-Covid Commerce Boom

How Acquia's customer data platform helped retailers deal with new demands of digital commerce in 2020 and in a post-COVID landscape.

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Retail And Ecommerce Brands Considered Extremely Ahead of The Curve

Maturity is hard to measure. Especially when it comes to customer engagement strategies. So, in order to help brands develop further, Braze developed a propriety framework, based on organisation and..

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Report: State of AI Marketing & Sales

With increasing investments in AI-driven strategies, businesses are transforming how they engage customers and drive ROI, while overcoming challenges in talent acquisition, data management, and..

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Remain Competitive By Adding Social Features To Your App

There are so many options in the app market that making a difference is a challenging task. Here is why adding a social dimension to your platform can bring you on top of the competition and level up..

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Reddit Raises $250 Million

As the Reddit trend continues to rise up and to the right, so does their funding. The companyâs recent series E round of financing has brought home a total of $250 million.

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Real AI Driven Visual Search: Preparing Your Content Machine for AI Generated Content

Watch on-demand: Real AI Driven Visual Search: Preparing Your Content Machine for AI Generated Content

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Read a Book Day Round-Up

In no apparent order, we introduce you to our top 5 LXA must-reads for #Readabookday 2020

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Reachdesk Case Study - test IO

test IO needed a tool to create a scalable and streamlined DM strategy. Reachdesk has enabled test IO to add DM to their Outreach sequences so that hyper personalised sends can be made within their..

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Q&A: Wyatt Bales

Meet Wyatt! With over a decade of martech experience under his belt, he's got industry knowledge in bales.

In fact, he started Uber's B2B CRM practise, growing the brand into the global monolith it..

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Q&A: Veronica Lazarovici from Alma

Marketo Champion & Certified Expert Veronica Lazarovici is just that â a certified expert (and legend)! Currently living and working in Palma, Balearic Islands Spain, V is an automation and..

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Q&A: Tim Bond

Meet Bond, Tim Bond. He might not have a license to kill, but he does have a license to deliver tactical insight projects across a range of sectors.

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Q&A: Thanassis Thomopoulos

We speak to Thanassis Thomopoulos, Head of Global Marketing & Commercial Analytics for Ebay Classifieds Group, ahead of his talk at the upcoming AntiConLX DialUp conference.

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Q&A: Tabitha Adams from Integrate

Tabitha Adams (BA, MBA, VIP, HRH) is the Senior Demand Marketing Manager at Integrate, and a Board Member / Head of MarTech & Community Management at The Growth Ops Community. A demand generation and..

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Q&A: Stephanie Hanson from OneTrust

Stephanie Hanson is OneTrust's Offering Manager, and an all-round tech expert. From product development, client service, to sales engineering experience, Steph's got it covered. And with a degree..

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Q&A: Sharon Winterton from Catalina USA

Vice President of Customer Success at Catalina USA, Sharon Winterton is a sales op and CX icon. With an MBA in Business Administration and Management from Phoenix, AND a BS/BA in Elementary..

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Q&A: Scott Brinker on Martech Growth, 2022 Trends and Challenges

During our research for the recent Martech Report 2021/22, we had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Brinker. We talked about recent trends in the Martech industry, the effects of the pandemic (of..

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Q&A: Regan Hamilton from Integrate

Digital Marketing Manager at Integrate, Regan Hamilton is a boss in Boston. Sorry, that was terrible. With a proven track record of exceeding client KPIs and stakeholder expectations, and managing..

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Q&A: Peter Irikovsky from Exponea

So who are the vendors that make up the UK Marketing and Technology Landscape? We caught up with Peter Irikovsky, CEO of Exponea to find out what makes them tick.

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Q&A: Paula Shannon from Lilt

Paula Shannon is the Chief Evangelist at Lilt, and previously the CSO and SVP at Lionbridge. Working with artificial intelligence-powered enterprise translation technology and services, sheâs..

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Q&A: Paula Shannon

Meet Paula Shannon! The founder and principal of Salosophy, Paula has over 30 years of international sales and executive leadership experience! In the three years she has been at Lilt, she has..

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Q&A: Parry Malm from Phrasee

So who are the vendors that make up the UK Marketing and Technology Landscape? We caught up with Parry Malm, CEO at Phrasee to find out what makes them tick.

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Q&A: Nikki Raber from Integrate

Nikki Raber is the Sr. Demand Generation Manager @ Integrate, and a rising star in the marketing world. From Media Buying, to Digital Strategy, to Digital Marketing, Nikki has done it all. She's..

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Q&A: Nick Mason from Turtl

So who are the vendors that make up the UK Marketing and Technology Landscape? We caught up with Nick Mason, CEO and Founder at Turtl to find out what makes them tick.

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Q&A: Moni Oloyede from Fidelis Cybersecurity andÂ DC Marketing Tech Talks

2020 Marketo Champion. Marketing Operations Expert. Co- Organizer at DC Marketing Tech Talks. Moni Oloyede makes more than money. From graduating with a masters from John Hopkins University, she has..

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Q&A: Moni Oloyede

Meet Moni Oloyede. Director of Marketing Infrastructure at Fidelis Cybersecurity, she's got quite the skillset.

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Q&A: Meet...AntiConLX Global Speaker Sean Donnelly

Read our Q&A with AntiConLX speaker Sean Donnelly, Head of Product at LXA!

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Q&A: Meet...AntiConLX Global Speaker Sam Choi

Read our Q&A with AntiConLX speaker Sam Choi! Sam is a passionate RevOps professional and is a big name in the turbulent world of early-stage B2B SaaS start-ups.

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Q&A: Meet...AntiConLX Global Speaker Nora Zukauskaite

Nora’s experience has been very diverse from blue chip heritage brands such as Unilever Pond’s and Dove to fast-paced high growth start-ups such as Veleza

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Q&A: Meet...AntiConLX Global Speaker Natalie Drucker

Natalie brings a particularly unique insight into ethical marketing in the digital age. Read our interview with her, here!

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Q&A: Meet...AntiConLX Global Speaker Michela Cocco

We chatted to Michela Cocco from Nestlé Nespresso ahead of her session to get her tips, tricks and insights:

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Q&A: Meet...AntiConLX Global Speaker Jimi Daodu

Jimi Daodu from Vault Hill is speaking at AntiConLX Global on all things marketing in Web3. Read his interview, here.

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Q&A: Meet the Women Changing the Martech Industry Part 2!

Martech Alliance are taking the opportunity to celebrate Women's History Month. Streamers? Check. Bunting? Check. A bunch of VIP guests ready to answer questions way below their pay grades? Check...

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Q&A: Meet the Women Changing the Martech Industry

With International Women's Day on our doorsteps, we here at Martech Alliance are taking the opportunity to celebrate. Our industry is filled to the brim with talented women, taking charge and taking..

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Q&A: Lynne Capozzi CMO Acquia

We spoke to Lynne Capozzi, Chief Marketing Officer at Digital Experience Platform Acquia, about some of the trends from the company's recent CX report, the benefits of DXPs, and recent martech trends..

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Q&A: Lauren Patrick from Curricula

VP of Marketing at Curricula, Lauren Patrick is up next! Emerging from the writing pathway (one of us, one of us) Lauren is a top-tier storyteller. She took a shift into the digital marketing world..

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Q&A: Laura Merten from Capita

Laura Merten is Capita's Head of Marketing Technology, with 10+ of amazing experience. CRM, UX, IDM, CDP, B2B, IPASS, BI, GDPR...Laura is an acronym aficionado. Rising to Head of Marketing Tech at..

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Q&A: Kunal Jogia

Meet Kunal! UK Lead and Senior Enterprise Account Executive for Relay42, Kunal is a customer journey powerhouse.

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Q&A: Kimmah Shah

Meet Kimmah Shah! She's the Head of Digital & Demand Generation at Actian, and all round marketing genius. From Digital Strategy & Transformation to Data-Driven Storytelling, she knows it all. A..

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Q&A: Joana de Quintanilha

Meet Joana De Quintanilha! VIP and VP/Principle Analyst at Forrester, Joana's areas of expertise span digital customer experience, customer experience index research, Agile methods, and more!

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Q&A: Jessica Kao from Digital Pi

Jessica Kao is the Director of Client Strategy at Digital Pi, an Adobe Fearless 50 Marketer, a Marketo Champion of the Year, a Marketo User Group Leader of the Year, AND a 6X Marketo Champion. And..

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Q&A: James Isilay from Cognism

So who are the vendors that make up the UK Marketing and Technology Landscape? We caught up with James Isilay, CEO of Cognism to find out what makes them tick.

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Q&A: James Henderson from Zephr

So who are the vendors that make up the UK Marketing and Technology Landscape? We caught up with James Henderson, CEO of Zephr to find out what makes them tick.

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Q&A: Jacki Leahy

Meet Jacki Leahy! The Over-Caffeinated Salesforce Magician herself. From outbound prospecting, to salesforce usability, to lightning configuration, Jacki knows it all. Now a Salesforce Consultant at..

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Q&A: Flavilla Fongang from 3 Colours Rule

Flavilla Fongang is a brand strategist, author, international keynote speaker, and founder of TLA. Oh, AND CEO of 3 Colours Rule! She's the ultimate multi-multi-hyphenate. Described as having an..

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Q&A: Eric Fulwiler

We steal a few moments of industry expert, Eric Fulwiler's time as he talks us through a day in the life of Eric and he shares some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

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Q&A: Emily Ann Kolvitz from Bynder

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Q&A: Elsa Coleaux from Treatwell

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Q&A: Courtney Tobe from AvidXchange

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Q&A: Christina Zuniga from Databricks

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Q&A: Chris Wickson from Integrate

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Q&A: Carey Straetz

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Q&A: Brooke Bartos from Walker Sands Communications

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Q&A: Ashley Langford from Integrate

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Q&A: Annette Ochoa from Lilt

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Q&A: Andy Caron from Revenue Pulse

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Q&A: Adriana Jones Lima from OneTrust

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Press Release: LXA acquires FSMarTech

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 31/03/21

ActionIQ Extends its Funding Round to $100M, VIDIZMO Partners with NESIC, Yum! Brands Acquire Tictuk, Act-OnÂ Announces New Funding, Twitter Acquires Reshuffle, AnyRoad has Raised $10M.Â

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 30/09/21

Mirakl Bags âŹ473.39M. Optimove Obtains $75M. Smartosc And Antsomi Partner. Accenture Buys BIIT Consulting And Experity. Sendinblue Acquires Three E-Commerce Marketing Companies For âŹ40M.Â Semrush..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 30/09/20

Cube Dev raises $6.2M, Eyeota integrates ID5âs Universal ID, Zoox Smart Data and Kubient partners and Momentum acquires Last Mile Insight LLC

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 28/10/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 28/08/20

Sara McNamara joins the Slack team, Movable Ink raise $30 million, Jifflenow integrate with ON24, Mention Me and Ometria partnership, SupportLogic Raises $12 Million

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 28/07/21

Amperity Raises $100M On A $1B+ Valuation, Zoominfo Drops $575M On Chorus.Ai, Zoom To Acquire Five9, Qualtrics Acquires Usermind, Pantheon Raises $100M, Amperity Raises $100m, Aleph Alpha Raises $27M..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 28/07/20

This week inMarTech:100-million-dollarinvestment for Ceros,Talkwalkeracquire Nielsen Social,subscription-based "malvertising" solutionannounced,ActiveCampaignenhancesautomation functionality

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 28/04/21

Extreme Reach Acquires Adstream. ActiveCampaign Raises $240M. HubSpot launches an Operations Hub. Terminus Launches Integration with LinkedIn. Facebook Creates Clubhouse clone.

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 27/10/20

E-Commerce Marketing Tech firm, Rokt Raises $80 Million, Bloomreach and Exponea enter partnership, Lunar raises âŹ40M in Series C Round Funding and Alida partners with Stratifyd

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 27/01/21

In this week's MarTech News: Citrix acquires Wrike, Omnipresent raises $15.8 million, Tealium and Agillic announce a new integration connector, and RichRelevance and Manthan Software merge to form a..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 26/05/21

Klaviyo Raises $320 million. Zoom Announces Events Platform. Snap Acquires WaveOptics. Pitch Raises $85M. Privacy.com Raises $43M. Twilio Buys Zipwhip. Piano Raises $88M

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 25/11/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 25/11/20

Klaviyo Raises $200M, Cheetah Digital Partners With Swrve, Zeotap Raises $18.5M, Criteo Integrates with Oracle Data Cloud, and Netcore acquires Hansel.io

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 25/08/21

Adobe Acquires Frame.io, Facebook Announces Horizon Workrooms VR, Talkdesk Valued at $10B After $230M Funding Round, Monterro Acquires Umbraco, MOLOCO Closes $150 Million Series C Financing, InfoSum..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 24/03/21

This week in MarTech: Contents raises $6 Million, Operative Acquires STAQ, Piaget Partners with Smartly.io, and Yotpo raises $230 Million.

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 24/02/21

In this week's MarTech News: Oribi raises $15.5 million, Leadspace and ZoomInfo partner, Tegrita and Motiva partner and Highspot raise $200 million

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 23/09/21

Matillion Raises $150 Million Series E. TransUnion Buys Neustar for $3.1 Billion. Persona Closes $150 Million Round. Dialpad Acquires Kare Knowledgeware. Incubeta Acquires Maze-One. Zeta and Adara..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 23/06/21

Sprinklr Has Filed for IPO. Iterable Announces its $2 Billion Valuation. Spotify Launches Its Live Audio App. Spotify Acquires Podz. Brella Raises $10M Series A. Templafy Raises $60M

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 22/09/20

Siteimprove Partners with Nordic Capital, Pure Storage Acquires Portworx for $370m, BrandTotal raises $12m in Series B Round Funding and Everteam Global Services Merges with Intalio

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 21/10/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 21/07/21

UserLeap Raises $38M, MeetingPlay Raises $75M, Incorta Raises $120M, Leandata And Zoominfo Partner, Momentum Acquires Research Firm ITSMA, Attendify Acquires Hopin, Flipkart Valued At $37.6 Billion,..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 21/04/21

Cardlytics to Buy Data Platform Bridg in $350 Million Deal, OneSignal Announces Strategic Investment from HubSpot, Phrasee Announces Phrasee X, 6sense Gains $125 Million Series D Funding, Amsive..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 20/10/20

MessageGears partners with Sageflo, Kahoot! raises $215million and Stripe acquires Paystack for $200 million.

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 20/01/21

In this week's MarTech News: Sitecore Secures $1.2 Billion, Snap Acquires StreetCred, Webflow Raise $140 Million, Mailchimp Acquires Chatitive, ON24 Filed to Raise $100 Million in IPO

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 19/05/21

Monday.com files for an IPO, SightCall Raises $42M, CallRail Announces Acquisition of PhoneWagon, Digital Marketing Agency ADA secures $60 million, Microsoft Debuts New Webinar Capabilities in Teams,..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 18/11/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 18/11/20

Hopin raises $125 million, Zendesk and WhatsApp partner, Spotify acquires Megaphone, Livestorm raises $30 million and Demandbase unveils Demandbase One

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 18/08/21

Verint acquires Conversocial, Adverity secures $120M, Seismic acquires Lessonly, Foleon announces $10 million Series C funding, Salesforce announce plans to integrate Slack, T-Mobile confirm data..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 18/08/20

TikTok signs first U.S. deal, Facebook announce paid online events, Claravine integrates with Adobe Experience Manager, IAS integrates with Google Ads Data Hub

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 17/03/21

This week inÂ MarTech: This week in MarTech: Emotive raises $50 million, Vungle acquires GameRefinery, Zoomd signs an agreement with Social Media platform TikTok, and True Influence and Lotame..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 17/02/21

In this week's MarTech News: Reddit raises $250 million, ClickDimensions acquires Eletype, Reduct.Video raises $4 million and salestech provider, Skynamo acquires mSeller

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 16/12/21

Twitter Buys Messaging Platform Quill .Microsoft And Adobeâs Partner On Productivity. Graphcms Joins Independent Tech Group Mach Alliance. Samsung Ads Rolls Out Data Partnership With Major..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 16/12/20

In this week's martech news: Cisco to acquire IMImobile, Sprinklr announces integration with Quora, Wonder raises $11 million, TechTarget to acquire BrightTALK and more

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 16/09/21

Acquia Has Announced Its Acquisition Of Widen. Sendoso Secures $100 M. Microsoft Buys Takelessons.Â Mparticle Connects With Yahoo. Inmoment Acquires Lexalytics. Packable Announces Merger With..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 16/06/21

Gong Raises $250M. Etsy Acquires Site Depop. Cognigy Raises $44M. Outreach Closes $200 Million. Spiff Raises $46M. Tracer Raises $9.9 Million. iContact Acquires Moz.

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 15/09/20

NVIDIA to Acquire Arm, Oracle Out Bids Microsoft in TikTok Battle, Sprinklr Raises $200 Million, Tramazing and Zealic Solutions Partner, Sarbacane Raises $27M, Metadata.io Raises $6.5M and Airtable..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 14/10/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 14/04/21

Skynamo Acquires mSeller, Quiq Acquires Snaps, WeCommerece Acquires Stamped, Impact Acquires Affluent, Finn Partners Acquires MintTwist, Sendbird Raises $100M at a $1B+ Valuation, and Twitter Has..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 13/10/20

Twilio to acquire Segment for $3.2 billion, AIA Thailand partners with Amdocs, Dialpad raises $100 million, Triller partners with Consumable and AntiConLX DialUp Series 2 drops next Monday

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 13/01/21

In this week's martech news: OneTrust Raises $300 Million, Hopin Acquires Streamyard, SalesLoft Raises $100 Million, Amazon Acquires Wondery and Google Pilots Video Search Feature

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 12/05/21

Demandbase Announces Major Acquisitions. TikTok Launches New Promotion and Ad Tools. Sitecore Acquires Moosend. Phrasee Partners with Braze. Adlava Partners with Treasure Island. Salesforce Launches..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 11/11/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 11/11/20

Adobe is said to acquire Workfront, Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, Logiq completes acquisition of Fixel AI and SalesLoft announces partnership with 6sense

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Martech News: Weekly Round-Up 11/08/23

Semrush Releases 2 New ChatGPT Features, DoubleVerify Buys Scibids for $125 Million, Hightouch Raises $38 Million, Zeotap CDP Adds Option to Load Non-Customer Data...and more!

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 11/08/21

Bluecore Raises $125 Million, Fullstory Adds $103 Million, Retain.ai Raises $23 Million, Hootsuite Buys AI-Based Chat System Heyday, Aurea Buys XANT, Â Auddy Limited Has Acquired Radio Wolfgang,..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 11/08/20

Reels released, IBM launches platform with Influential, Yotpo raises $75m, Flash Memory Summit partner with TechTarget and Terminus integrates with Pardot

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 10/03/21

Hopin raises $400 million, Upland acquires BlueVenn, Medallia acquires Decibel, Piano acquires AT Internet, Okta acquires Auth0, Sitecore acquires Boxever and Four51, Widen and Shutterstock partner,..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 10/02/21

In this week's MarTech News: HubSpot acquires The Hustle, Tealium raises $96M, Automattic acquires Parse.ly, Scratchpad secures $13 million, Storyblok raises $8.5M, Granulate Raises $30M and Avatria..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 09/12/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 09/12/20

In this week's martech news: Facebook acquires Kustomer, Zephr raises $8 million, Bizzabo raises $138 million and Sprinklr integrates with Quora.

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 09/09/21

Martech Alliance Acquires FS Martech. BrandMaker Acquires Hive9. Sitecore Buys Search Platform Reflektion. 6sense Buys Fortella. Lift AI Teams Up With Drift. Leapwork Raises $62 Million. Bizzabo..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 08/09/20

Episerver acquire Optimizley, Reachdesk raise $6m, Exasol and Cittabase partnership, MSQ acquires Be Heard, Hall & Partners partner with Dynata and InfoSum raise ÂŁ11.4m

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 07/10/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 06/10/20

SendInBlue raises $160 million, TransUnion to acquire Tru Optik, SAP to acquire Emarsys and Seismic raises $92 million

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 05/05/21

MessageBird Acquires SparkPost. Finoa Raises $22M. Mux Raises $105M. ON24 Launches Breakout Rooms. Adobe Announces CDP. Sony and Discord Partner.

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 04/11/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 04/08/21

Contentful raises âŹ148.3M at a valuation of âŹ2.5B, Odoo Raises âŹ180M, Dixa raises $105M, Qualtrics Acquires Clarabridge for $1.125 Billion, Uniphore To Acquire Jacada, Adobe Partners With..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 04/08/20

Microsoft to buy TikTok, Partnerize and Pepperjam acquisition, $45million for Chorus.ai, WEVO and Brandcast partnership and The Big Tech Antitrust Hearing

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 03/11/20

CM Group Acquires Selligent Marketing Cloud, StensulÂ lands $16 Million, Intel to Acquire SigOpt, True Influence Partners with LiveRamp and DoubleVerify raises $350M

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 03/03/21

In this week's MarTech News: Cision acquires Brandwatch, Exponea and Acxiom announce a data integration, Zeta Global raises $222.5M in debt financing, Blueshift takes home $30 million, Terminus..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 03/02/21

In this week's MarTech News: Bloomreach acquires Exponea, Leadspace raise $46 million, Mediafly raise $25 million and Leadoo MT raise âŹ5 million

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 02/12/21

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 02/12/20

In this week's martech news: Salesforce in talks to acquire Slack, Adobe Expands CDP to Include B2B Sales, Adjust,Â announces partnership Adobe and more...

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 01/09/21

Infobip Collaborates With Adobe ,Rollworks Partners With Bombora And Kickfire, Memberful Partners With Spotify, Zendesk Acquires Cleverly.Ai, Cribl Raises $200 Million Series C, Emakina MENA Partners..

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Martech News: Weekly Round-up 01/09/20

SugarCRM Inc. acquire Node Inc., Bambuser and Relatable partner, Smartsheet to acquire Brandfolder, Outbrain partners with LMC and Crunchbase announce Salesforce integration

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MarTech News: Round-Up 31/03/23

WPP Buys Social Influencer Marketing Agency Obviously , Openview Raises $560M, Adobe to integrate generative AI into its CDP and more with the martech news!

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MarTech News: Round-Up 31/03/22

Uniform Acquires Headless Creator Astronomer Raises $213M RapidAPI Raises $150M Island Raises $115M Zoomd Acquires AI Marketing Platform Albert

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MarTech News: Round-Up 30/06/22

AntiConLX Global Comes to London ActionIQ Launches CX Hub Leadsquared Raises $153 Million Aircall Exceeds $100M in Annual Recurring Revenue Klaviyo Launches Unified Customer Platform Pathlight..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 28/07/22

Contentsquare Raises $600M Microsoft Reveals Contact Center Platform Tealium Launches Pharma-Specific Package Freshworks and ZNet Technologies Partner InfoSum Launches New Data Clean Room Platform..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 28/04/22

Observe.AI Raises $125M ON24 Acquires VIBBIO Elon Musk Acquires Twitter Strivr Lands $35M for VR Training ActionIQ Releases B2B Customer Experience Scorecard

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MarTech News: Round-Up 27/01/22

Thunderhead to be Acquired by Medallia. Mention Me raises $25M. Observable Raises $35.6M. CaptivateIQ Raises $100M Series C, Gains $1.25B valuation. Semrush Acquires Backlinko. SBI Acquires Smart..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 26/05/22

CleverTap Acquires Leanplum Pega Partners with Celebrus Quantum Metric Releases VisibleUserZoom Acquires Testapic Vertice Comes Out of Stealth to Raise €24.7M Tableau Introduces Tableau Cloud

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MarTech News: Round-Up 26/01/23

💰 Microsoft Invests Billions More in OpenAI 👥 Samsung and Sprinklr Partner 💰 Authenticx Raises $20M ⚙️Lotame Launches First-Party Data Accelerator ⚙️Chatgpt To Support Digital Experience..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 26/01/23

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MarTech News: Round-Up 25/08/22

Vidmob Raises $110 Million In Series D Investment Round, NICE Secures Microsoft Partner Designation, Transunion Partners With Canvas Worldwide and mroe in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 24/11/22

Contentstack Raises $80M, Ceros Releases Editor Tool,Optimizely Introduces DXP On Microsoft Azure Marketplace and more in this week's news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 24/03/23

Blackstone Acquires Cvent Acquia Enhances Its DAM SystemCvent to Be Acquired by Blackstone and more with the martech news!

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MarTech News: Round-Up 24/03/22

TripleLift Buys 1plusX for $150M Terminus Launches Connected Account Experiences Edison Interactive teams up with Vistar Media Impact.com Acquires Pressboard

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MarTech News: Round-Up 24/02/22

Radar Raises $55 MillionConductor to Acquire Contentking Bloomreach Raises $175MMovable Ink to Acquire Coherent Path Raydiant Raises $30 Million Series B Acquia Launches Drupal Cloud

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MarTech News: Round-Up 23/06/22

Invoca Raises $83M InMoment Acquires ReviewTrackers Attentive Launches Concierge SMS Product CloudShare Partners With HubSpot Storyblok Launches Technology Ecosystem

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MarTech News: Round-Up 23/02/23

Demandbase Raises $175 Million Acquia Updates Its Cdp Oro Raises $13M and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 21/07/23

This week in martech: Telegram Raises $210 Millions ,Microsoft Launches Vector Search, Acxiom And Hugo & Cat Announce Partnership...and more!Deloitte Digital Acquires Blended Digital Branch Raises..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 21/04/23

💰Rally Raises $12 Million⚙️Tealium Adds No-Code Data Import👥Totango Partners With Jasper 👥Element and HighByte Announce Partnership...and more!

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MarTech News: Round-Up 21/04/22

OSF Digital Raises $100 million Series C Fulcrum Launches Customer Data Platform NICE and Deutsche Telekom Global Business Announce Partnership Corporate Visions Acquires DSG

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MarTech News: Round-Up 20/01/22

Cognism raises $87.5m. Microsoft To Buy Activision Blizzard. ClariRaises $225 Million.Acxiom Partners With Transunion. Alteryx Buys Trifacta for $400 Million. LoopMe Sells Majority Stake to Private..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 19/05/22

Storyblok Raises €44.8 million ActiveCampaign Acquires Postmark and DMARC Digests Google Unveils Digital Workplace Plans mParticle Launches CX Tool Journeys StoryStream Announces Partnership With THG..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 18/08/22

Conductrics Integrates Customer Surveying Capabilities, Reputation Adds New Social Experience Features, Invoca Announces New Integration With Five9 and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 17/11/22

OSF Digital Acquires Oegen, Bidgely Partners With NISC, Bizzabo Introduces Klik Experiential and more in this week's news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 17/03/22

Insider Announces $121 million Series D round Typeform Secures $135 Million in Series C FundingCapital D Leads Investment in Phrasee

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MarTech News: Round-Up 17/02/22

Deloitte Digital Acquires Blended Digital Branch Raises $300 Million Starburst Raises $250 Million Shopware Raises $100 Million️ AppDirect Acquires ITCloud.ca Optimizely Partners with Google Cloud

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MarTech News: Round-Up 16/06/22

Demandbase Launches Demandbase Data (D2) Labs Salesforce Releases NFT Cloud Devo Raises $100 Million Tealium Integrates with Merkle Merkury

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MarTech News: Round-Up 16/02/23

💰 TCS Scores $700 Million Deal ✍️Doopoll Assets Acquired by QuestionPro 💰 Ushur Raises $50 million ✍️ Infillion Acquires Market Research Platform Phonic ✍️ Sendinblue Buys Captain Target ✍️ Sensis..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 15/12/22

Audiense Acquires SOPRISM, Teamitg Launches New-Look Inspired Thinking Group, Chattermill Raises $26M and more in this week's news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 15/09/22

CVS Health To Acquire Signify Health,PolyAI Raises $40M, ActionIQ and Slalom Partner and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 14/07/22

Gnosis Safe Raises $100M Konnecto Raises $21M SupportLogic Launches Agent Coaching and Evaluation (ACE) Application Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud Sign Partnership Agreement Medallia to Acquire..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 14/04/23

💰 ID.me Raises $132 Million ⚙️Flip Launches Magicos 💰 Equator Secures $40M In Commitments ⚙️Google Launches The First Public Beta Of Android 14 ⚙️Jasper Announces API...and more!

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MarTech News: Round-Up 14/04/22

ICIMS Acquires Candidate.ID Validity Acquires MailCharts Ogury Acquires MotionlySamCart Raises $82 Million Omnicom Teams Up With Firework

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MarTech News: Round-Up 13/10/22

Optimizely Unveils New Product Updates, Clearspeed Raises $27M, Persado Introduces New API and more in this week's news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 13/01/22

Optimove Raises $75M. T-Mobile Acquires OctopusInteractive. Yahoo Announces a New Partnership With Mikmak. AskNicely Raises $32M. Tech Mahindra Buys Allyis India and Green Investments for $125M. ..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 12/05/22

Conversica Partners With 6sense Account Insights Pyramid Analytics Closes $120 Million Series E Financing Smartly.io Joins TikTok Marketing Partner Program

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MarTech News: Round-Up 12/01/23

WPP Acquires Fēnom Digital, Protiviti Acquires Digital Experience Agency R2i, and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 11/08/22

CleverTap Raises $105M Aisera Raises $90M mParticle Acquires Vidora Ping Identity Bought for $2.8 Billion Omeda Announces Investment From Sverica Capital OpenText Unveils Cloud Editions 22 Accenture..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 10/11/22

Alation Raises $123M, Positive Group Raises $110M, OpenX Technologies and Permutive Partner and more in this week's news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 10/03/23

Verizon Business Partners with Sparq Live Limited, ChurnZero Partners With Northpass and more with the martech news!

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MarTech News: Round-Up 10/03/22

UserZoom Announces $800M Strategic Development Investment Omnicom Acquires TA Digital Bynder Acquires GatherContent Brandwatch Acquires Paladin CrafterCMS Announces Second Round of Financing

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MarTech News: Round-Up 10/02/22

MarTech Alliance Announces AntiConLX Siteimprove Reaches $100 Million ARR. 1Password Raises $620 Million Acxiom and Treasure Data CDP Partner

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MarTech News: Round-Up 09/06/22

AppOmni Raises $70M Hootsuite Partners with TikTok Broadcom Acquires VMware. Airship Acquires Gummicube

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MarTech News: Round-Up 09/02/23

Crisp Acquires Integral Group, Marin Software and Yahoo Integrate, NICE and Cognizant Partner and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 08/09/22

Blueshift Debuts Pre-Built AI Recommendations,Zuora To Acquire Zephr, Carrieverse Partners With Polygon and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 08/04/22

Mural acquires LUMA and launches the Collaborative Intelligence System OSF Digital Acquires Economic Research Company Netnomics Optimove Acquires Kumulos

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MarTech News: Round-Up 06/04/23

Dotdigital’s AI Assistant Powered By GPT-3, Winstonai, Is Announced,Big Purple Dot Integrates Chatgpt to Its CRM Ecosystem, and more

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MarTech News: Round-Up 06/01/22

Mastercard To Acquire Mcdonaldâs Personalisation Platform Dynamic Yield. Integrate Receives Majority Investment From Audax Private Equity. Integral Ad Science Acquires Context. ON24 Announces New..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 05/05/22

Medallia Acquires CXTeam Integrate Launches Precision Social and Cross-Channel Insights Mavrck Raises $135M Movable Ink Raises $55M Yellow.ai Launches Low-code Digital Agents BWZ Media Acquires..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 04/08/22

Klaviyo Raises $100M, Cynthia.Io Launches On-Demand AI Platform, Balance Raises $56M, Fexa Raises $40M, Bain & Company Debuts NPSx, Oracle Announces Next Gen Fusion Sales, Cordial Secures $50M, Gap..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 03/03/23

Sendinblue Integrates WhatsApp, Hubilo Buys Fielddrive, Vitally Raises $30 Million and more with the martech news!

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MarTech News: Round-Up 03/03/22

Salesloft Announces Partnership with Google Jabmo Joins the ON24 Partner Network LinkedIn Acquires Oribi Dbt Labs Raises $222M Airmeet Raises $35 Million

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MarTech News: Round-Up 03/02/22

Simpli.Fi Acquires Coremedia Systems Tango Acquires Agilquest Piano Partners With Snowflake Vista Equity Partners, Evergreen Coast Capital Acquire Citrix Cloudinary Acquires Indivio GWI Raises..

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MarTech News: Round-Up 01/12/22

Yahoo and Taboola Sign 30-year Partnership, Tealium Launches the Identity Partner Ecosystem, Symend Raises $40M and more in this week's news

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MarTech News: Round-Up 01/09/22

Neustar Partners With InfoSum, QuestionPro Acquires Digsite, Medallia Acquires Mindful, Lily AI Closes $25M Series B and more in this week's martech news

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MarTech News Round-Up 02/06/23

💰 Hakkoda Secures New Investment Capital⚙️ ZoomInfo Enhances Product With Generative AI & Automation👥 Storyblok Partners with UC Berkeley✍️ Hawke Media Acquires Leverage Marketing ... and more!

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Martech M&A Activity Grows by 214% Year on Year

M&A activity in the Martech sector grew by 214% year on year as the industry continues its recovery from the pandemic.Â

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Martech M&A Activity Grew by 95% in 2021

2021 has seen record growth in M&A activity in the Martech sector, with 166 major deals, compared with 85 in 2020.Â Luma's 2021 Market Report finds that deal activity grew by 95% year on year.Â

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Martech M&A Activity Continues to Grow in Q3 2021

A look at M&A activity in Q3 2021, using Luma data. Martech activity grew by 114% year on year.

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Martech LeadGen & Marketing Automation Trends

Trends in marketing automation and lead generation in this year and the whole decade.

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MarTech Festival Insights - The State of Marketing Technology 2017

If you weren't fortunate enough to come to our MarTech Festival 2017, AntiConLX, you can still catch some of the highlights including the keynote session.

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MarTech Fest Recap: Marketers Need a New Way Forward

I recently had the pleasure of presenting in-person at MarTech Alliance's anti-conference,MarTechFest Global 2021in London and I have to say, it was great to be back on stage presenting in front of..

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Martech Diversity Scholarship

Following the recent #BlackLivesMatter movement, we at MarTech Alliance have launched our Martech Diversity Scholarship.

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Martech Day 2022: The Release of the 2022 Supergraphic

Scott Brinker and Frans Riemersma, supported by LXA, give us a run down of the martech industry as a whole, and release the anticipated 2022 supergraphic.

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Martech Budgets Set to Increase in 2022: Report

The demand, and need, for marketing technology has grown steadily over the past few years, with the martech industry now worth $344bn globally.

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MarTech Alliance's Ultimate UK Super Bowl Translation Guide

Read MarTech Alliance's Ultimate UK Super Bowl Translation Guide, specially made for UK viewers in mind!

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MarTech Alliance's Top 5 2022 Predictions For Martech

2021 was a year in which the martech industry grew, and grew, and continues to grow. Our martech report estimated that the global market for marketing technology was worth $344.8bn. What will we see..

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MarTech Alliance's Top 15 Posts From 2021

What a year it's been. We're talking about the waves and waves of edutaining articles we've been putting out of course. So, let's jump into our best-est, biggest, and brightest articles of this..

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MarTech Alliance's Top 10 Interviews from 2021

It's been a massive year for us, and the martech industry in general. We've had our finger on the pulse with all the best names and events, and have been lucky enough to talk to some real big..

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MarTech Alliance Quarantunes Playlist

To get us through lockdown we decided to create our own quarantunes playlist.

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Martech Alliance Featured on Latest 'This Old Marketing' Podcast

As a bonus for attendees of our recent MarTechFest Global event, and for anyone who is interested in martech, we're featured on the latest This Old Marketing Podcast from Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose.

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Martech Advisor chats to Scott Brinker

Ahead of the 2017 MarTech Festival, we caught up with headline speaker Scott Brinker to get his insights on accomplishing real marketing outcomes.

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Marketing Transformation Helps Schwab Drive Marketing-Qualified Leads

Marketing transformation helps Schwab Advisor Services drive marketing-qualified leads and close deals worth over $100MM+

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Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic 2020

The 2020 edition of Scott Brinker's Martech Landscape is upon us. Every marketers favourite infographics showcasing thousands of martech tools.

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Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic 2018: Key Takeaways

This supergraphic is put together and delivered by conference chair and all-round MarTech baller Scott Brinker, along with Jeff Eckman and Anand Thaker.

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Marketing Ops Perspective: Three Steps to Improving Your Content SyndicationâŻEffortsâŻin a Precision Demand Marketing World

Content syndication is a tried-and-true channel for B2B marketers. Here are three ways to improve your content syndication efforts to align with a Precision Demand Marketing approach.

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Marketing Operations Best Practice Guide

It looks at the purpose of the marketing ops role, why it has become more important , how marketing ops teams are structured, and the responsibilities of the function.

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Marketing Leaders Book Club: Digital Darwinism 2nd Edition by Tom Goodwin

Digital Darwinism guides its reader through the unrelenting pace of change and uncertainty we see in the industry today.

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Marketing Leaders Book Club - The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

"Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products," said Al Ries and Jack Trout in their seminal work The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.

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Marketing Leaders Book Club - Superfans

It's easy to forget about the people behind the data. In his book Superfans, Pat Flynn shows how you can create your biggest supporters from the smallest group.

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Marketing Data Transformation

Our Marketing Data Transformation report, produced in association with MetaRouter, takes a deep dive into the current marketing data landscape, exploring market trends, and the challenges that..

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Marketing Capabilities Excellence: Developing & Delivering Your Marketing Capability Program & Academy

A guide to assessing marketing capabilities, planning and delivering a capability program and academy.

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Marketing Budgets Fall 4.6% In 2021, Martech Share of Budget Increases

Marketing spend as a percentage of revenue fell to 6.4% in 2021, though martech has increased its share, with CMOs expect to spend more in this area during 2022.Â

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Marketing Budgets 2022: Stats and Trends

Marketing budgets are bouncing back. Find out all the latest marketing budget stats and trends for 2022 here!

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Marketing BS Free Dictionary - Jargon Made Simple

If you're not a technical geek, then you've come to the right place. Here are 25 important marketing terms, explained in plain English.

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Marketing Book Club: Your Ad Ignored Here by Tom Fishburne

We caught up with Tom Fishburne to chat about his book 'Your Ad Ignored', a collection of all his marketoons

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Marketing Book Club: Would You Do That To Your Mother? by Jeanne Bliss

We caught up with Jeanne Bliss to chat about her inspiring book 'Would You Do That To Your Mother' where we learned more about doing right by your customer and deliveirng a truly positive customer..

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Marketing Book Club: This Is Marketing by Seth Godin

We caught up with Seth Godin to chat about his book 'This Is Marketing' showing marketers that you can't be seen until you learn to see

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Marketing Book Club: The Startup Way by Eric Ries

In this episode of the Martech Alliance Book Club, we interview Eric Ries on his ground-breaking book, The Startup Way, which explores how modern entrepreneurial management can create the conditions..

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Marketing Book Club: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek, optimist, visionary, and bestselling author joins our host Carlos in this episode to chat about his latest book The Infinite Game.

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Marketing Book Club: The Four by Scott Galloway

We caught up with Scott Galloway to chat about his book 'The Four', the insightful analysis of the overreaching power of Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook

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Marketing Book Club: The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway joins us for this ep of the#MarketingBookClub to chat about his brilliant book The Algebra of Happiness

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Marketing Book Club: The Agile Marketer by Roland Smart

We caught up with Roland Smart to chat about his inspiring book 'The Agile Marketer' where we learned more about the agile approach that has revolutionised software development

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Marketing Book Club: That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph

Marc Randolph, Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix joins our host Carlos to chat about his latest book 'That Will Never Work'.

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Marketing Book Club: Social Selling by Tim Hughes

We caught up with Tim Hughes to chat about his book 'Social Selling', the how-to guide for any salesperson who doesn't want to get left behind

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Marketing Book Club: Secrets of Sandhill Road by Scott Kupor

Scott Kupor joins this episode of the #MarketingBookClub to lift the lid on the world of venture capital, and chat about his book Secrets of Sandhill Road

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Marketing Book Club: Post Corona by Scott Galloway

In our latest Marketing & Tech Book Club episode, Scott Galloway outlines both the crisis and opportunity brought to light by the pandemic in his latest release 'Post Corona' and discusses how the..

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Marketing Book Club: Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin

We caught up with Rand Fishkin to chat about his book 'Lost and Founder' and disucss the true truimphs and pitfalls of launching your own startup

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Marketing Book Club: Killing Marketing by Robert Rose and Joe Pulizzi

We caught up with Robert Rose to chat about his co-authored book 'Killing Marketing', the how-to guide for killing your marketing structure (as the only way to save it)

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Marketing Book Club: Indistractable by Nir Eyal

In our latest Marketing & Tech Book Club episode, weâre looking back on our chat with Nir Eyal on revealing the hidden psychology driving you to distraction in his latest release: Indistractable.

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Marketing Book Club: Hacking Marketing by Scott Brinker

We caught up with Scott Brinker to chat about his book 'Hacking Marketing', the quintessential book onm martech and agile managament practices

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Marketing Book Club: Geek Girl Rising by Heather Cabot

We caught up with Heather Cabot to chat about her inspiring book 'Geek Girl Rising' and the amazing sisterhood shaking up the tech world.

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Marketing Book Club: Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson

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Marketing Book Club: Everybody Writes by Ann Handley

Ann Handley, best-selling author of âEverybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Contentâ has crafted the ultimate content marketerâs bible.

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Marketing Book Club: Digital Sense by Travis Wright and Chris J Snook

We caught up with Travis Wright and Chirs J Snook to chat about their book 'Digital Sense' showing marketers how digital can be implemented into everyday operations

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Marketing Book Club: Digital Darwinism by Tom Goodwin

We caught up with Tom Goodwin to chat about his book 'Digital Darwinism', the quintessential book on digital disruption

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Marketing Book Club: Delusions of Brandeur by Ryan Wallman

Ryan Wallman, doctor turned creative copywriter joins our host Carlos in this episode to chat about his latest book Delusions of Brandeur.

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Marketing Book Club: DataStory by Nancy Duarte

In her latest marketing book: DataStory, Nancy Duarte reveals presenting data well, is about more than just the numbers.

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Marketing Book Club: Customer Insight Strategies by Christine Bailey

Christine Bailey cuts the BS and gets down to business in her new release: âCustomer Insight Strategy: How to Understand Your Audience and Create Remarkable Marketingâ. And it does exactly what..

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Marketing Book Club: Customer Data Platforms by Martin Kihn and Chris O'Hara

In our latest Marketing & Tech Book Club episode, weâve been chatting CDPs with Martin Kihn and Chris OâHara, authors of Customer Data Platforms about you guessed it, customer data platforms.

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Marketing Book Club: Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk

We caught up with Gary Vaynerchuk to chat about his book 'Crushing it' where entreprenurs get a styep-by-step guide to business and financial success.

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Marketing Book Club: Conversational Marketing by D. Gerhardt & D. Cancel

In a world where consumers have the luxury of on an demand real time lifestyle why do we still put up barriers to purchase in the B2B world? In this episode of the #MarketingBookClub, Carlos is..

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Marketing Book Club: Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff

Sam Conniff, founder, author and professional rule breaker joins our host Carlos in this episode to chat about his latest book Be More Pirate.

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Marketing Book Club: Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

In his latest marketing book: Alchemy, Rory Sutherland challenges the notion of logical thinking and we manage to bag a chat with the man himself.

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Marketing Book Club: 99 Strategies to get Customers by Flavilla Fongang

Flavilla Fongang gets down to business in her latest marketing book and gifts us with 99 Strategies to get Customers.

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Marketing Automation: Stats and Trends

There's a lot you need to know about Marketing Automation before you dive straight into the deep end. Here's some stats!

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Marketing Attribution Best Practice Guide

Overview of marketing attribution platforms, and what they can offer to marketers

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Marketing & Technology World Cup Dream Team

Some will argue we did it to jump on the bandwagon, others will say "hey these guys just wanted an excuse to watch football in work hours". They are both correct. Here's our pick for the World Cup..

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Marketing & Sales Technology Predictions

The latest marketing, sales and technology trends for 2024, looking at data challenges faced by marketers, the growth of AI, and more.

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Marketing & Data Privacy Are Changing Radically - Here's How to Handle That

New data privacy policies from Google and Apple could rock marketers' world. Acxiom and Treasure Data help you adjust and thrive.

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Managing Data Privacy - Legal + Marketing Technology

This presentation looks at data privacy and how you can manage your data privacy.

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Managing Data Privacy - Legal + Marketing Technology

Since the introduction of the GDPR, and the CCPA in the USA, limitations have been placed on the types of data companies can utilise. So, companies must find ways to keep their martech stack going...

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Making the Pivot to a Digital-First Strategy During COVID-19: 5 Useful Tips from Acquia Customers

5 Useful Tips from Acquia Customers to Make the Pivot to a Digital-First Strategy During COVID-19.

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Making it stack up: How to get, and stay, in control of your martech

The 4Ps of Marketing Technology: your guide to developing an integrated martech strategy & road map. It ainât just about your tech.

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LXA Marketing Leaders Book Club: They Ask You Answer

They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today′s Digital Consumeris quite the mouthful. But it does what it says on the tin.

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LXA Marketing Leaders Book Club: The Illusion of Choice

Discover how subtle changes in product positioning, promotion, and marketing can influence consumer behaviour with Richard Shotton's 'The Illusion of Choice.' As a leading expert in applying..

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LXA Marketing Leaders Book Club: One Plus One Equals Three

The book is less of a structured "how-to" guide and more of a selection of inspiring short stories which present the reader with extreme, encouraging, and uplifting tales on how people shook up the..

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Love AI? Here's the Top 10 People To Follow

AI has taken over our lives, from the phones we use to even the cars we drive! But with great power comes great responsibility. To ensure you’re up-to-date on all the AI-related news and..

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Linkedin's Algorithm in 2021: Here's How it Works

LinkedIn's algorithm, like many others, is a well-kept secret. But, thanks to research, observation, and trial and error, a few key tip and tricks have emerged.

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LinkedIn Expands its Martech Capabilities With Acquisition of Oribi

LinkedIn expands its marketing technology capabilities with acquisition of web analytics startup Oribi for $80M-90M

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Know Your Customers Better in 2021 with the Power of Receipt Data

Receipt processing technology is an alternative to traditional data collection and helps you learn more about your customers for personalization.

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Key insights: Gartner's 2018 Marketing Briefing

Some key insights into the 2018 Gartner Marketing Briefing: âExcelling Through Digital Disruption in the World of Marketingâ. A fantastic event with an illustrious set of speakers.

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Journey Orchestration Engines Best Practice Guide

Customer journey orchestration bridges the gaps between teams and touchpoints to actively manage the customer journey

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Jay Baer on The Definition of Data Driven Marketing Excellence

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January Book of The Month 2023: Work/Life Flywheel

Founder and CEO Ollie Henderson knows the value of the work/life balance. So, along came the work/life flywheel. We sat down with Ollie to hear his tips, tricks, and insights for getting into a state..

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It’s The 90th Birthday Of Lego - What Can We Learn From Their CX?

In its most basic form, Legos are just building blocks. But loyal customers know the brand is much more than that.

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It's Marketing's Job to Sell, Too

You pursued a career in marketing for a reason. You're a free-thinking creative who excels at understanding what people want, and you obsess over what your customers and prospects need from you and..

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Is Your Mindset Holding Your MarTech Potential Back?

Working closely with marketing and sales teams, one of the comments I hear most regularly is "Why doesn't our marketing technology ecosystem and output look like the platform demo we saw?"

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Is There a Place for B2B in the Metaverse?

Business is all about meeting your customers where they are, at the right time. Remember, B2C concepts and techniques are seeping into B2B. So how can the metaverse be adopted by B2B businesses?

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Is SendInBlue About to Take on MailChimp and HubSpot?

SendInBlue storms out of blue and into the running with the big players; MailChimp and HubSpot following their latest series B round funding raking in $160 million.

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Is It Time to Rewrite Your B2B Marketing Playbook?

If 2020/21 taught us anything, it's that B2B marketing needs to be broken. Big time.

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Is Influencer Marketing the Answer to Increased Privacy Regulations?

92% of consumers say companies must be proactive about data protection, with 64% saying they would blame the company, and not the hacker.

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Is Gmail, Youtube and Google Down?

#GoogleDown trends of Twitter as reports of issues with Gmail, Youtube and Google flood in from across the globe.

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Is Generative AI the Future of Content?

Could you tell if an article was written by AI? Many marketers are concerned and excited by the future of content creation, from art to articles, and everything in between.

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Is Deep Learning the Future of Marketing?

deep learning is a means of predication and analysis on a vast scale. Through this, companies are using advanced AI to deliver hyper-personalised experiences to their customers

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Is CX a Differentiator? Your Customer Experience FAQs Answered

Customer experience is a totality of cognitive, affective, sensory, and behavioural consumer responses during all stages of the consumption process including pre-purchase, consumption, and..

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Is ChatGPT the New Face of Search Engines?

The OpenAI project is probably the most talked about AI systems in the world right now. And, with the buzz around ChatGPT, it's clear that it'll change how we interact with search. What will this..

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Is Amazon About to Acquire Hubspot?

Amazon is reported to have an interest in the acquisition of Hubspot, with reports that one of the Amazon Web Services teams have recommended the move.

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Is agile always the answer?

At AntiConLX 2019, Scott Brinker, Carlos Doughty, Tamsin Anasati-Pace and Sinem Soydar got together to answer - Is Agile Always the Answer?

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IoT and Marketing: How IoT is Going to Change Marketing

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Five Marketing Ops Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Five Key Predictions From Forrester for 2022

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Five Future Trends From the 2022 Super Bowl Commercials

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Five Eye-Catching Examples of Cookie Banners

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Five Emails to Get People Turning Up to Your Events

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Five Best Practice Tips for Successful Webinars

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Five 2022 Marketing Predictions From Gartner

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Financial Times: A Case Study in Martech Strategy

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Financial Services Providers Need To Support Customers According To Their Evolving Needs

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Exploring CDP Implementation and Optimization

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Examining Various Use Cases for a CDP

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Everything You Think You Know About Leads Is Wrong

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Every C-Level Job and What They Do

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Evaluate Best Practices with a Framework for Customer Engagement Maturity

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Enhancing your Go to Market Strategy through the Power of Partnerships and Ecosystems

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Email Marketing: Stats and Trends for 2023

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Email Marketing Strategy Requires a Rethink: Gartner

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DXP Buyer Guide

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Driving Agency Growth in 2024: The AI, Data, and Martech Industry Overview

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Down to the Crunch: Third-Party Cookie Alternatives for When the Cookie Crumbles

Google's announcement that it will phase out third-party cookies on Chrome by 2022 shook stuff up.

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Do today's CMOs need tech skills?

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Diversity and Inclusion in Marketing in 2021: Has anything really changed?

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Digital Marketing Transformation Roadmap: Your FAQs Answered

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Deepfake's Potential Impact on Content Creation

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Dear Marketers and Technologists, We Need to Talk About the Shiny New Tech You've Got Your Eye On

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Data-Driven Engagement for Modern Marketers

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Data Smart: Considering Your Data Gathering Strategy

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Data Privacy Best Practice Guide

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Customer Spotlight: How Bynder Helps Klarna Accelerate Growth with Smooth, Consistent Branding

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Customer Satisfaction, Data & the Post-Pandemic Recovery

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Customer Experience: Stats and Trends for 2021

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Customer Data Platform Treasure Data Raises $234 Million

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Core Concepts of Predictive Marketing: Using Look-alike Targeting

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Core Concepts of Predictive Marketing: Predict Likelihood To Buy

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Content tech - The Strategy and Stack you Need to Reach a Global Audience.

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Consumers are Fighting to Regain Control of Their Data

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Consent-Based Marketing: Bringing Privacy and Consent to Your Tech Stack

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Coming This Summer: Zoom Events

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Combining Zero-party Data and Customer Loyalty in a Cookieless Era

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Clean and Clear: Why Email Hygiene is Still Essential

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Chatbots: A Shiny New Toy, or Where You Should Focus Your Time and Budget?

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Chatbots vs Conversational AI vs Virtual Assistants: What's the Difference?

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Chaos to Clarity: Tackling Marketing Inefficiencies and Measuring Success

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CGI Influencers: The (sci-fi) Future of Influencer Marketing?

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Certificate: Next-Gen Digital Marketing Course

25th June, online. Build a fully rounded and comprehensive understanding of digital marketing to advance your career.

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Centre for Marketing Transformation: 2021 Digital Experiences Benchmarks Annual Report

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Celebrating Women in Martech - Year-round!

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CDPs, DMPs and CRMs: Do I Need One (Or All Three)?

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CDPs Continue to Boom as Bloomreach Acquires Exponea

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CDP vs DMP what is the difference?

The independent CDP Institute explains CDPs vs. DMPs, how each works, and which is best for a variety of marketing use cases and applications.

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Canva Raises $200m Based on $40bn Valuation

Thanks to a new funding round led by T. Rowe Price, online design platform Canva is now valued at $40bn. The company raised $200m in the round, as the company continues its rapid growth.Â

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Cannes Lions Winners: Who did it best, Humans or AI?

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B2B marketing often lags a decade behind B2C marketing. If you want to know where B2B is going, then just take cues from B2C.

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