Adweek

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Welcome to this episode of the Marketing Vanguard podcast. In this engaging conversation, Natalie shares her journey from traditional TV entertainment to becoming a global marketing leader in the ad tech space. She brings a.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Let’s face it: the marketing world is already complicated. Agile marketing isn’t easy to implement or continuously manage, and the promise of helping teams prioritize work — and say no to some things — remains elusive. How do you combine agile marketing and generative AI? What will this powerful duo do for you?

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Martech

AUGUST 19, 2024

New technologies and changing buyer behaviors demand that marketers stay adaptable and innovative. For small teams, account-based marketing ( ABM ) simplifies targeting and maximizes budget impact. Targeted campaigns : Focusing on specific accounts ensures marketing efforts resonate with each client’s unique needs.

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Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Much like an old engine that’s past its prime, some AI marketing strategies are sputtering as technology speeds ahead. 6 AI trends in marketing you need to let go of 1. These early bots relied on pre-programmed scripts to simulate conversation, automating basic customer service tasks and handling routine inquiries.

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Martech

JULY 26, 2024

C-level executives must understand its potential as a dynamic, always-on marketing engine that drives engagement, nurtures leads and fuels business growth. Here’s how to transform your website into a powerful marketing engine using advanced martech solutions and smart operational strategies.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Your calendar is not just a pretty collection of dates and ideas; it’s the blueprint for a successful email marketing program. Below are six tried-and-tested pointers to unlock the full potential of your email marketing calendar. In addition to the year’s key marketing dates, highlight other promos for your business.

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Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. This sparked doom-and-gloom predictions about marketing’s diminishing role in 2025. While many CMOs are stressing over shrinking percentages, the smartest are rewriting how marketing delivers and proves value. Theyre redefining marketings role in driving revenue.

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Ad Rants

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The effectiveness of marketing strategies hinges on one fundamental concept: customer-centricity. For experienced advertisers and marketers, embracing this approach isn't just beneficial; it's imperative for driving engagement and ensuring brand success. However, old-school methods such as email marketing still hold significant value.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Theres never a dull moment in influencer marketing, which faces a significant challenge this year with the law banning TikTok in the United States. Even without the platform that made it famous, influencer marketing is now a significant channel for marketers. Its also big business for both content creators and brands.

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Martech

JULY 10, 2024

No marketing technology series would be complete without discussing the ever-important measurement of success or KPIs. Today, you would get no argument on the importance of building relationships with influencers across social platforms, as social media marketing ROI and KPIs have become well-established within strategic frameworks.

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Martech

AUGUST 20, 2024

The hype cycle’s rapid pace is unsettling many companies and their marketing departments. It’s reasonable to infer that many of those laid off were in marketing and customer service roles, where AI is handling many more tasks. Example : Mary Marketer, the marketing operations manager at ACE Corp.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. So, we marketers need to get on board. Interestingly, this change in buying behavior has major implications for the role of the marketing function in the firm. Could be that marketing will enjoy an increase in power and influence in B2B?

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Martech

AUGUST 6, 2024

What consumers don’t know is that staying connected with those needs is an uphill battle for marketers, especially in an ever-evolving digital landscape. In 2020, privacy concerns prompted Google to plan to remove cookies in Chrome with a deadline that was continually moved back, regularly sending panic waves through the marketing world.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The decline of marketing as an influential business function is well documented. Among C-suite roles, chief marketing officers (CMOs) are the least likely to advance to the CEO spot and the most likely to be dismissed. The changing mandate for marketing leaders At the B2B Marcom Summit in Washington, D.C., and the U.S.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2025

Many organizations over-invest in performance marketing and spend more to achieve the same or even worse results. Why do companies over-invest in performance marketing? Performance marketing is conversion-focused. It will undoubtedly favor performance marketing channels. The result? Processing.

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Martech

OCTOBER 25, 2024

B2B marketers in the U.S. How are marketers using this data? And how do they research and vet the dozens of data providers out there selling data to B2B marketing organizations? I sat down with Tzvi Kopetz,VP of Marketing at Lusha, for a conversation about the role of data in B2B marketing.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It’s not only brand marketers who preach the importance of having a conversation with customers — the customers expect it, too. Out-of-touch marketers. Consumers are aware that marketers have data on their interests and purchases. Consumers also show more interest in certain personal values than marketers do.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ve just returned from MAICON 2024, one of the best, if not the best, conferences focused on AI and marketing. MAICON didn’t disappoint: I’m full of ideas to help our clients improve their marketing by applying AI. According to the 2024 State of Marketing Report , 99% of respondents say they use AI in some fashion.

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Adweek

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Temperatures broke 100 degrees as the brightest minds in the advertising, marketing, and media industry gathered for discourse, exploration, discovery, and, of course, networking. It was quite literally the hottest Brandweek ever. This year, ADWEEK hosted its biggest annual event in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Martech

AUGUST 2, 2024

The annual marketing plan’s reputation isn’t quite as respected. However, planning works better if marketers take a cue from how nature approaches change. “Oh, It’s planning and budgeting season,” said no marketer ever. However, markets are volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). Oh, goodie!

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Martech

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and marketers are feeling the shift. Generative AI is redefining how people search and engage with content, reshaping traditional marketing strategies. This transformation poses both challenges and opportunities for marketers. This shift gives marketers a unique advantage.

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Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

How often have you seen ads promising a single tool or platform as the ultimate solution to all your marketing challenges guaranteeing quality leads and sales while saving you time and money? No one consumes media in a vacuum, so why limit your marketing to a single channel? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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Martech

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Ross admits he’s a proponent of direct mail marketing but tells us: “If what shows up in your mailbox is relevant and respectful, then you’re likely to engage with it. “When we got to a certain level of scale,” he said, “we looked at conversion level by age. Guess what we found? They’re humans.”

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Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From T-shaped marketer to translator of business languages For more than 30 years, I was a marketer and communicator in large companies and agencies. ” By pointing out this disconnect in terminology, both groups experienced a huge “lightbulb moment” and adjusted their conversations.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This article was co-authored by Matt Wakeman , Weicong Zhao and Joseph Enever , analysts in the Gartner Marketing Practice , covering marketing data and analytics. Marketing leaders have long relied on various techniques to measure and communicate their impact, but traditional digital attribution methods often fall short.

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Martech

JULY 18, 2024

If there’s one sentiment that’s rising to the top among marketers and marketing ops, it’s “I’m tired.” You see it on X, read it on LinkedIn and hear it in communities, conversations and threads. Choosing the wrong tools, resources or vendors can harm brand reputation and market positioning.

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Martech

AUGUST 15, 2024

In my last article, we talked about how marketing systems will change with the acceleration of AI, affecting roles, processes and workflows. In this article, we are going to take a deeper dive into workflows, examining how AI, and specifically visual workflow builders, will impact the way marketing teams operate. But buyer beware.

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Martech

APRIL 9, 2025

AI proficiency is becoming a critical differentiator for marketers. HubSpots co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah says were at an inflection point where AI skills are essential for marketing career growth and acceleration. But why is AI proficiency so critical for marketers and why is this happening now? Recent U.S.

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Martech

JANUARY 23, 2025

We struck up a conversation with Kara Heater, Director of Marketing for the Savannah Bananas, to talk about how the team uses a combination of video, social media and authenticity to entertain millions of fans, many of whom have never seen the team play in person. The post What can marketers learn from the Savannah Bananas?

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Adweek

JULY 31, 2024

Giunco, who left Nike in June 2022 after 22 years there, had been in internal conversations in which Nike staffers suggested they meet with ASOS to borrow its digital tactics, he told ADWEEK. In 2021, then-Nike senior brand director Massimo Giunco was baffled to hear online fashion retailer ASOS come up repeatedly in meetings.

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Martech

AUGUST 13, 2024

The term “operational maturity” may be relatively new to some marketers, but the concept is well established. Achieving operational maturity within a marketing department of 50 associates with a $20 million budget will look completely different than a four person department with a $1 million budget. Time tracking.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Marketers gathered at the fall 2024 MarTech Conference for a discussion of intent data — what it does well, where it struggles and where organizations are seeing success. 12:40: Where marketers have success with intent data. 12:40: Where marketers have success with intent data. 4:10: What is the story the intent is telling?

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Martech

JANUARY 6, 2025

Depending on their backgrounds, marketers may not be familiar with this structure. But working as a marketing consultant for the last few years, Ive been reminded about the importance of questions particularly the FAQ document. A FAQ can be included in any communications or marketing plan to help develop and/or solidify key messages.

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Adweek

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Live from Brandweek 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, the Marketing Vanguard podcast welcomes Sofia Colucci, CMO of Molson Coors, for an in-depth exploration of modern marketing leadership. The 2024 Marketing Vanguard.

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