In the world of email marketing, there are two types of professionals: those who concern themselves with what makes up a good email and those who concern themselves with what makes an email. Both are important and deserve study by anyone who considers themselves to be an expert email marketer. One of the many things […]
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When people think about computer vision (sometimes called “machine vision”), they often think of smartphones and autonomous cars. Snapchat can give you a puppy dog face thanks to facial recognition (a subset of machine vision). Autonomous cars can identify a human walking across a street. But did you know that machine vision plays a role
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The evolution of Scott Brinker’s iconic Marketing Technology Landscape graphic since 2015 tells the tale of an industry rapidly evolving and bursting at the seams. That was the year the number of martech companies doubled year over year to nearly 2,000 vendors, all the way from just 150 when he began illustrating the proliferation of
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Proper attribution is one of the biggest challenges marketers face. I’ve experienced this firsthand in my role as VP of marketing at AdRoll; I’m responsible for reporting on the impact of my team’s marketing efforts and dedicating resources toward the activities that drive the business. Our customers have the same imperative, which is why they invest in
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Let’s start with the good news. The US internet ad industry grew 21.8 percent (from $59.6 billion to $72.5 billion) last year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. You also may have heard the bad news: Google and Facebook account for almost all of that growth, and when other big names like Amazon, Snapchat and
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The signs of programmatic maturity are everywhere, no longer just in aggregate spend figures. We see it as more and more brands buy into the full-stack reality and explore solutions that connect martech to ad tech and data to creative. At the same time, there are talented people within brands and agencies who have mastered
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In this age of data-driven marketing, marketers are empowered by analytics as much as they are by creativity. Buyer personas — no longer built in the “set it and forget” way — are constantly evolving to better understand consumer behaviors. Marketers with analytical acumen will be the winners in the personalization game in this new landscape.
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The martech and ad tech industries love to talk about real-time. The context doesn’t matter — regardless of the circumstances, real-time must be better than delayed. Right? The allure of real-time makes sense. We operate in real time these days, at work and at home, answering calls and emails as they come in, fighting fires
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For marketers, messaging technology options abound out there, from complete marketing clouds to channel-specific options, such as email service providers (ESP) or push platforms. They all were designed around a particular customer and set of use cases, and their current versions often reflect that starting point and the evolution of their customer strategy. In one
If a picture is worth a thousand words, social media users are speaking volumes. People now share more than 3.25 billion photos a day on the world’s biggest social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. In 2012, that number was less than 500 million. Data also shows that social media users gravitate toward visual content:
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