This guide will help you understand the Customer Data Platform (CDP) space. A comprehensive guide to CDP uses and vendor selection.
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LXA's 2023 Predictions for Martech, Salestech and Nexttech looks at some key trends across marketing and sales that we expect to play out in 2023.
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If you are looking to be a Top Marketer (or a leader in a similar field), attending a Marketing Conference should be a regular occurrence.
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Email is a key communication channel for businesses to engage with customers. And those emails often contain a lot of information about the products and services being provided - so how can you use..
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Creating Personalised, Relevant Experience in the Digital Age. Find out what zero-party data is, why it matters, and how brands are collecting and using it with Cheetah Digital solutions, download..
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AI and ML are technologies that will make marketing, both B2B and B2C, more efficient, more personalised, more streamlined. But what we're noticing is that marketer's skills aren't keeping up.
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Come make friends with Frans - the founder of Martech Tribe, all round CX genius. In his webinar 'AntiConLXDialUp: Driving your martech maturity - How to achieve journey orchestration excellence', we..
Missed AntiConLX DialUp with content kings Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose? Well then, this one's for you. They might have a duo name like a 70s police detective show, but they're far more cool. No..
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Doug..
Who needs a crystal ball, or a incredibly creepy ancient fortune teller in a tiny tent, or even a Ouija board, to tell us what the future looks like.
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Not two, not three, not four, but FIVE digital selling insights popped out, fully-formed, from the brain of Christine Bailey and her PassFort team at this year's AntiConLX Global.
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This report, produced in association with ON24, is a fantastic opportunity for you to delve deeper into B2B digital experience.
A new report from Integrate into marketing maturity finds plenty of scope for improvement, with just 23% of marketers placing themselves in the top category.
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There's no need to say it again. (But we will.) The COVID-19 pandemic changed the rules of B2B marketing forever. And while account-based marketing (ABM) has gained traction over the past five-plus..
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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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AI is set to be the most disruptive force in marketing for the next 10-20 years. It will be part of the whole marketing ecosystem in the near future. It will impact every part of the business.
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In a funding round led by SoftBank Corp, customer data platform (CDP) Treasure Data has secured $234m.
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Some key Data and Privacy marketing statistics and trends for 2022.
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Digital experience is more than taking a physical interaction and replicating it online. It helps companies differentiate in a crowded market, creates new customer journeys, needs and expectations.
Email has long had an excellent reputation for delivering in terms of ROI, but in a new report, just 47% of marketers rate it as an effective channel.
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Some key email marketing statistics and trends for 2022.
In 2021, more organizations are shifting towards an ABM program, and we're seeing marketing and sales departments work closer together.
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Martech strategy isn't easy, and it takes a lot of planning, and the right process to invest in the marketing technology that works for you.
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In its 2022..
Things are beginning to return to normal in regard to life post-Covid. Nonetheless, many of the changes in life that the pandemic introduced through necessity are here to stay.
More and more..
In his first guest article for LXA, Darrell Alfonso, Global Marketing Operations Manager at Amazon Web Services tells us about some common mistakes made by marketing ops professionals, and how to..
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You've got three twigs, a roll of duct tape, and a handful of pushpins. Now, build your email list. C'mon, you were in the Scouts. You've got five minutes.
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How marketers can use customer date platforms to improve execution of data strategy and drive key business metrics.
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Little bit of CRM news for you today. Hold onto your hats.
Coinciding with the Virtual Inbound conference, Hubspot has announced a major upgrade of its CRM, turning its focus to three C's;..
By any metric, the last 18 months will be a turning point in history and the fodder of historians, social commentators and children's textbooks for decades to come.
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An overview of what makes the perfect data story cocktail. A focus on empathy.
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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.
A report from Business Insider suggests a..
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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"Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products," said Al Ries and Jack Trout in their seminal work The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.
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.
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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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..
Crisp Acquires Integral Group, Marin Software and Yahoo Integrate, NICE and Cognizant Partner and more in this week's martech news
Alation Raises $123M, Positive Group Raises $110M, OpenX Technologies and Permutive Partner and more in this week's news
WPP Acquires Fēnom Digital, Protiviti Acquires Digital Experience Agency R2i, and more in this week's martech news
Optimizely Unveils New Product Updates, Clearspeed Raises $27M, Persado Introduces New API and more in this week's news
Audiense Acquires SOPRISM, Teamitg Launches New-Look Inspired Thinking Group, Chattermill Raises $26M and more in this week's news
OSF Digital Acquires Oegen, Bidgely Partners With NISC, Bizzabo Introduces Klik Experiential and more in this week's news
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..
💰Rally Raises $12 Million⚙️Tealium Adds No-Code Data Import👥Totango Partners With Jasper 👥Element and HighByte Announce Partnership...and more!
Demandbase Raises $175 Million Acquia Updates Its Cdp Oro Raises $13M and more in this week's martech news
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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