Martech
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Making the Most of Martech: Lessons Learnt from the Ad Tech Evolution
We’ve come a long way since the first RTB ad was placed in 2010. Evolution has been rapid and developments in technology even faster. Challenges haven’t come sparingly to marketers, and approaches have had to change along the way, writes Chuck Moran, VP marketing, RhythmOne.
As programmatic and social began to take off, marketers too faced growing ad fraud, non-viewable impressions, a rise in bots, and increased uptake in ad-blocking technology. According to the IAB, 22% of British adults now use [...]
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The Realities of Delivering Seamless, Personalised & In-the-Moment Experiences
We are in the era of empowered customers who define the customer experience on their own terms. New technologies are enabling new innovative experiences, which are in turn driving increasing customer expectations. This leads to the requirement for business transformation; and many companies are at different stages of sophistication in terms of how they execute on that. Often the terms marketing and advertising are used interchangeably. Typically, it’s the business model (CPM versus licensing) that’s cited as the difference [...]
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Marketo Engagement Platform Offers Choice Vs Captivity: Q&A with Chandar Pattabhiram, Marketo
While attending this year’s Marketo Marketing Nation Summit, you could feel the excitement throughout the conference. Not only from new and long-time users of the Marketo platform, but from marketers excited about their launch into the world of martech and big data. ExchangeWire speak with Chandar Pattabhiram (pictured below), CMO, Marketo, on their vision to offer deeper integrations, simplicity and agility with The Marketo Engagement Platform, to drive true innovation for marketers.
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Oracle's Laura Ipsen on Consumer Experience & Data Overload
Oracle’s Marketing Cloud offering has evolved rapidly following a string of acquisitions over the last five years: Eloqua, 2012; Responsys, 2013; BlueKai and Datalogix, 2014; Maxymiser, 2015; and AddThis & Crosswise, 2016. In August 2016, Laura Ipsen (pictured below) moved from Oracle’s Global Industry Solutions Group (technology solutions for retail, financial services, utilities, public sector, etc.) to Oracle Marketing Cloud as SVP and general manager, replacing Kevin Akeroyd, who left the company.
During an interview [...]
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'Driverless' Marketing: Is Digital Marketing Automation Heading the Right way?
Las Vegas’ 2017 Consumer Electronics Show explored the road to driverless mobility. Self-driving technology is promising better use of your time while arriving at your destination safely. One of the show’s highlights was BMW’s advanced i Vision Future Technology, featuring added sensors that recognise hand gestures. It is marketing/advertising technologies’ vision to understand complex signals from the consumer and within the marketplace, to drive marketing to defined goals (semi-)autonomously – unlocking valuable resources for the ‘driver’. While programmatic is leading [...]
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Why 2016 Was The Beginning of The End of The Current Ad Tech Cycle
There was a lot of M&A this year in advertising technology. According to Eric Franchi’s ad tech M&A tracker, there were eighteen acquisitions in excess of USD$100m (£68.4m) in 2016 – with a combined total of nearly USD$10bn (£6.8bn). This obviously should be viewed as a positive for the industry. Ad tech clearly still plays a crucial part in the monetisation and execution strategies of publishers, agencies and brands.
Despite the M&A frenzy this year there is a sense in [...]
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'Social Care Strategy' Often Fills Marketing Teams with Dread: Q&A with Leo Ryan, VP, Spredfast
Social media is slowly starting to become a key element of a brand’s communication strategy and, of course, this means they need to take customer service into consideration. ExchangeWire speak with Leo Ryan, VP, customer solutions, EMEA, Spredfast, about how brands are dealing with this form of communication, and how marketing technology is aiding them in their social care strategy.
ExchangeWire: There has been a huge rise in the number of consumers turning to social media to approach brands [...] -
2017 Will Be a Year of Action for Brands, Agencies & Technology Providers
2016 has been a fascinating year for the industry, best summed up as the ‘year of transparency’, as the ANA (alongside Facebook’s ‘inflate-gate’) helped to remind brands of the importance of transparency, and driving this throughout the entire media supply chain. As Ryan Kangisser, founder and managing partner of ad tech and martech consultancy, Stack I/O explains, it has signalled a fundamental change in the way of working.
Marketers have needed to take a much more proactive role in the [...]
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Programmatic in Deutschland wächst; Teads vermarktet Spiegel Online
ExchangeWire bündelt die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Region DACH. Diese Woche: Programmatic in Deutschland auf Wachstumskurs; Teads übernimmt Outstream-Vermarktung von Spiegel; Adblock-Rate in Deutschland sinkt; und Deutsche Unternehmen misstrauen ihren Mediaagenturen.
Programmatic in Deutschland wächst 51%
Zwischen September und Oktober 2016 wurden insgesamt 31 Digitalexperten aus Deutschland und der Schweiz im Rahmen von Experteninterviews und imAuftrag des BVDW und des IAB Schweiz befragt. Das Ergebnis der Befragung von Repräsentanten der Agentur-, Werbeauftraggeber- und Publisher-Seite: Programmatic in Deutschland ist in der Konsolidierungsphase [...]
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Real-Time Media Buying is Just the Tip of the Programmatic Iceberg
Programmatic advertising is still not used to its full potential. In this piece, Chris Le May (pictured below), SVP and MD Europe and emerging markets, DataXu, specifically addresses marketers and explains how they can make the most of their programmatic spend by breaking down silos and using advanced attribution models to create meaningful data and make informed decisions.
As the popular myth goes, humans only use 10% of their brains. Imagine, if this were true, what we could achieve with 90% extra brainpower? Would we fully realise [...]
