The marketing world is rapidly changing, and staying ahead means focusing on what truly matters. From rethinking how success is measured to embedding privacy-first principles into your strategies, 2025 is all about smarter approaches and meaningful outcomes. Marketers must adopt proactive strategies as competition intensifies and the ad ecosystem becomes more complex. Each focus area…
Retail media networks (RMNs) are a hot new thing that’s been around for decades. Their roots go back to brands putting ads on store end caps and paying for placement in retailers’ weekly fliers. But, like everything else in marketing, digital took it into a whole different realm. RMNs are both the current and next…
Media mix modeling (MMM) helps brands understand how marketing investments affect the bottom line. It originally focused on high-reach channels such as network television, print and radio to assess brand impact and audience reach. Valued for being reliable and easy to measure, these legacy channels were key drivers for brand awareness and conversions. However, the…
Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative…
Not news: Marketing attribution, never a simple thing, is becoming increasingly complex. News: AI-powered forecasting is rapidly gaining popularity as a desired feature in marketing attribution platforms, according to a new report from Ascend2. While still a niche feature, 29% of marketers now deem it crucial, a significant increase from 13% in 2023. Despite this…
As marketers pour more budget into digital channels, a surprising disconnect remains. While the majority of retail sales, for example, still happen in physical stores, most marketing efforts focus solely on tracking online metrics. The challenge? Traditional attribution models fail to connect digital spend with real-world outcomes. To bridge this gap, marketers must embrace AI…
Traditional marketing tracking methods like unique phone numbers and coupon codes are becoming less effective. With stricter privacy regulations and consumers gaining more control over their data, marketers have turned to digital attribution using pixel-based tracking. However, this method overlooks the full customer journey by focusing only on the last interaction before conversion. To better…
Today, geolocation technology company Foursquare introduced Sales Impact, a new offering in its campaign attribution suite. The tool combines location and purchase insights, allowing marketers to measure the impact of multichannel campaigns on sales. Previously, the Foursquare Attribution target used geolocation for logged-in customers to measure foot traffic to stores and other signals to estimate…
The focus of most B2B companies is developing products and services customers need. Selling them requires detailed customer information. It falls on marketing to get that data, usually via event registrations, website forms and the like. Sometimes that isn’t enough, which is why data enrichment providers exist. The types of data they can provide include…
Some 61% of digital marketers are still using third-party data, according to Salesforce’s latest State of Marketing Report. It also found problems with data activation, personalization and AI optimization. Although the percentage of marketers using third-party data is down from 75% in 2022, this illustrates a problem with finding reliable information. The top three data…