Martech
AUGUST 20, 2024
Warren Buffett, a towering figure in the financial world, voiced his concerns about artificial intelligence during his annual meeting in May. He compared AI to the development of nuclear weapons: “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons. AI is somewhat similar — it’s part way out of the bottle.” This underscores the potential risks and benefits that AI presents to society.
Adweek
AUGUST 12, 2024
Last September, in an initiative called the Helpful Content Update, Google made many changes to the algorithm that powers its search results. Despite its innocuous name, the update dramatically reshaped the search landscape, throttling traffic to smaller, independent websites while increasing the visibility of others, according to Ewen Finser, the founder of growth agency ReddVisible.
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illumin
AUGUST 27, 2024
With the summer flying by, it’s time to look ahead to what retail trends will take the lead in fall 2024. The previous year proved difficult for retailers, with low consumer confidence and increasing cost of living tightening shoppers’ purse strings. But it seems that tough times are starting to wane. Goldman Sachs reports in its 2024 economic forecast that inflation is easing and consumer confidence is, slowly but surely, on the rise.
Martech
AUGUST 22, 2024
Marketers are starting to think big about AI in marketing. Different organizations will take various routes to achieve their goals. Some will hire expensive consultants and embark on a massive AI transformation. Based on my experience watching companies undertake similar transformations, whether in agile marketing or digital transformation , this “big bang” approach is almost certainly doomed to failure.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Martech
AUGUST 26, 2024
Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. Some of the trends I’m seeing have been developing for a while, but now they’re really taking off. What’s going on? Here are five of the most important developments. 1. Welcome the new generation of buyers Gen X and Y are entering the buying group, in droves.
Martech
AUGUST 12, 2024
Over the past weeks, I spent hours in front of the TV watching endless commercials punctuated with short periods of sports coverage. Is it just me, or were there more commercials than usual during these Olympic Games? I saw the Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot commercials what seemed like a thousand times. I was completely sucked into the vision of typing in a simple request and Gemini or MS Copilot creating a meeting summary, action plan, and a visually compelling presentation all with the c
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Martech
AUGUST 14, 2024
Left to right: Lilit Davtyan, CEO, Phonexa and Kristen Haines, CEO, MailCon kick off MailCon New York 2024. Image: MailCon. A year of changes requires a shift in tactics for email marketers. At the start of the year, Yahoo and Google issued new rules for bulk email senders. Now marketers have to decide what steps they need to take to avoid getting emails rejected in the “post-Yahoogle” era.
Martech
AUGUST 6, 2024
Google’s loss in its federal antitrust case may mean huge changes for the company, web users and digital advertisers. It could result in a big hit to parent company Alphabet’s bottom line; more and better search choices for people; and lower-priced, more effective advertising. We won’t know until U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta hands down the penalties in a few months.
Martech
AUGUST 6, 2024
Consumers expect brands to understand their unique needs and deliver what they want seamlessly. 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. For years, this meant relying on third-party data, mainly cookies, as the backbone of brand connection strategies.
Martech
AUGUST 12, 2024
HubSpot rolled out another huge batch of updates in July, and we’ve sifted through them to pick out the game-changers from the nice-to-haves. This month, the big news is all about improved data management, making customer interactions smoother and cutting down the time you spend on busy work. Sales teams, get ready to level up with awesome new tools for managing leads.
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Martech
AUGUST 7, 2024
The ability to have the tools and information to make data-driven decisions is no longer a “nice to have” but a necessity. Teams relying on gut instincts and anecdotal evidence for planning are falling behind more sophisticated brands using predictive analytics and data insights. Data-driven marketing is the right approach for running campaigns. However, the challenge lies in changing current behaviors and decision-making processes to incorporate better information.
Martech
AUGUST 27, 2024
Google today introduced four updates to help retailers ahead of the holiday shopping season. Key updates: Shopping trends insights. You can now access real-time shopping trends in Google Merchant Center. This could help you adjust your inventory and product descriptions based on what shoppers are searching for or viral trends. AI-powered insights. Two new generative AI features in Merchant Center Next provide quick summaries of product performance and custom reports based on specific data queri
Martech
AUGUST 2, 2024
Nature is a genius at adaptation. For over three billion years, organisms acclimated to the earth’s evolving environment with elegant strategies. The annual marketing plan’s reputation isn’t quite as respected. It’s an activity usually faced with dread. However, planning works better if marketers take a cue from how nature approaches change. “Oh, goodie!
Martech
AUGUST 9, 2024
Google unveiled new features for Local Services Ads (LSA) this week. One automatically selects profile photos to display in advertisements, while the others give advertisers more control over their spending. Profile photos This update aims to increase ad engagement and potentially improve ad rankings for local service providers. How it works: Google will choose photos from advertisers’ LSA profiles based on their likelihood to boost engagement.
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Martech
AUGUST 26, 2024
I watched “OpenAI Sora’s first short film — ‘Air Head,’ created by shy kids,” when it debuted in March and assumed Sora would be publicly available in a few months. But it’s already August and only a limited number of visual artists, designers and filmmakers have been granted access to “gain feedback on how to advance the model to be the most helpful for creative professionals.
Martech
AUGUST 14, 2024
I’m still buzzing from a call a few days ago with a marketer working for a well-known Western university. These calls are always energizing because we talk about people’s struggles, what kinds of success they’re looking for, and what we can do to help. After the call, I felt more optimistic than I had in weeks. I wasn’t just talking with someone who understands the advantages email can bring to their organization.
Martech
AUGUST 15, 2024
The IAB Tech Lab has announced a change in terminology and an expansion of its U.S. privacy compliance agreement. What had previously been the U.S. National Section of its Global Privacy Platform (GPP) will now be known as the Multi-State Privacy Agreement (MSPA) U.S. National Section. In addition, the MSPA has now been expanded to include 14 additional states as more states advance legislation addressing privacy issues.
Martech
AUGUST 7, 2024
Google is discontinuing its Smart Campaigns offering and integrating its features into Performance Max campaigns. Why we care. This shift impacts advertisers using Google’s simplified campaign management tool and signals a broader push towards AI-driven, cross-platform advertising solutions. The big picture. Performance Max represents Google’s next-generation approach to digital advertising, leveraging AI and machine learning to optimize ad performance across multiple platforms.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Adweek
AUGUST 5, 2024
Last June, The Associated Press began a concerted effort to expand its advertising business, which generated just 5% of its total revenue compared with the roughly 80% it took in from its lucrative licensing operation. The publisher redesigned its website, inserting more ad units, multimedia and recirculation tools, and hired a direct sales team for.
Adweek
AUGUST 21, 2024
Sales representatives from Google have suggested advertisers target teenagers on YouTube, seemingly in violation of the platform's own policies, according to three ad buyers and written documentation seen by ADWEEK. This activity goes beyond the practice that was first identified by the Financial Times earlier this month. Earlier this month, The FT reported that Google.
Martech
AUGUST 8, 2024
Does your consumer product have AI? Do yourself a favor and don’t tell anyone. A study of 1,000 people found products described as having AI were consistently less popular than those that weren’t. “When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,” said lead author and Washington State University clinical assistant professor of marketing Mesut Cicek in a statement. “We found emotional trust plays a critical role in how consume
Adweek
AUGUST 19, 2024
The sports publisher The Athletic launched a new vertical today covering the world of sports memorabilia and trading cards. It's a market whose value is forecast to reach $227 billion by 2032, according to the consulting firm Market Decipher. The vertical is launching as part of a multiyear partnership with the commerce platform eBay, which.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
Martech
AUGUST 23, 2024
The connection between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) is well-documented, with both anecdotal evidence and statistical data supporting the correlation. Research indicates that positive EX leads to superior CX, which in turn drives revenue growth and customer satisfaction. This relationship is demonstrated in companies where engaged employees deliver exceptional service, resulting in improved customer relations and business success.
Martech
AUGUST 13, 2024
Fact. Inflation fundamentally reshaped the relationship between companies and consumers. Companies, faced with rising costs, responded with price hikes, product shrinkage and similar tactics, eroding consumer trust. In response, consumers became more discerning, demanding value and authenticity. This new era of skeptical consumers requires a radical shift in marketing strategy.
Adweek
AUGUST 27, 2024
Google's upcoming adtech antitrust trial suffered a setback today, as evidence emerged that it relied on a policy to avoid retaining messages that relate to the case, the DOJ argued. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia considered a motion today from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking.
Adweek
AUGUST 6, 2024
Netflix is further lowering the prices of its ads, according to three ad buyers who talked to the streamer in July. Netflix will charge advertisers CPMs (cost per thousand viewers) between $20 and $30 for some of its ad inventory, the buyers said. Netflix will charge $20 for a 15-second ad slot and $25 for.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
Adweek
AUGUST 26, 2024
Google planned to spend hundreds of millions of dollars incentivizing agencies to purchase certain types of its media, according to new documents filed last week in the Department of Justice's upcoming antitrust trial against Google. The documents reveal the inner workings of Google's incentive programs with agencies and advertisers. The program gave agencies discounts, special.
Martech
AUGUST 5, 2024
I recently experimented with Midjourney to generate an image of two hikers. One was wearing pilot-frame sunglasses, which I liked. A day or two later, I walked into a Costco and saw a pair of Hugo Boss sunglasses on a special display that looked like what I saw on the AI hikers. They were on sale for a great price. I tried them on, looked at myself in the mirror, and put them back to get what was on my shopping list.
Martech
AUGUST 19, 2024
Reaching your B2B audience gets challenging each year as competition increases and digital trends evolve. 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. The benefits of programmatic ABM for small B2B marketing teams ABM presents multiple benefits for small B2B marketing teams striving to optimize resources and drive engagement.
Martech
AUGUST 12, 2024
Even the best CRM is nearly useless without clean data. Worse still, bad data creates huge costs for companies, like wasted labor, lost revenue, and higher customer churn. On the flip side, clean data lets you excel at tasks like prospecting, reporting, tracking capacity and ensuring your emails get delivered. Knowing where contacts are in their customer journey lets you see whether they should be handed off to sales or further nurtured by Marketing — and how to communicate with them when you do
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
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