No less than 50% of B2B marketers won’t reach their goals this year. When sales and marketing teams are firmly aligned, the outlook is much better, with 80% saying they will reach their goals. The insights come from a new Pipeline360 report, “The H2 2024 state of B2B pipeline growth” based on a survey of…
Buy or build stack components? That’s an issue martech practitioners confront all the time. Like it or not, no one will ever get everything they want or need. An important question is whether the cost (effort and budget) is worth building something and then maintaining a custom solution to get closer to meeting all of…
This week, rideshare company Lyft added significant measurement and targeting abilities to its ad platform, Lyft Media. Partnerships with key adtech companies allow Lyft Media advertisers to connect ad exposures during the use of the company’s services to outcomes like store visits and in-app purchases. Over the last two years, Lyft has built out its…
This week, Pinterest unveiled the Pinterest Performance+ suite, which includes new AI and automation tools for lower-funnel ad performance. The new offering aims to optimize targeting to Pinterest users and manage campaign budgeting. Using Performance+ also decreases the creation time by requiring half the inputs for standard campaigns. GenAI creative tools. Some of the new…
Salesforce suffered an outage across a number of instances Tuesday, making some features of its platform unavailable to users, while others reported they could not log into Salesforce at all. Salesforce referred to the incident as a “degradation of service” and issued a number of updates throughout the day on Tuesday. As is often the…
My two previous articles on personalized customer experiences focused on the need to embrace AI and the goal of AI that truly understands customer data. I’m going to continue to explore the framework I introduced in those articles here, moving to the lower-right quadrant: Agency. I’m not talking about AI’s impact on marketing and advertising…
On Friday, Google concluded its defense in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit over its advertising technology. Even though Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Milgrom provided supporting testimony, it’s still easy to see gaps in Google’s arguments. Here are the ones that stand out to me: 1. “Duty to deal” argument Google’s stance: Google argues that it…
Our “Spotlight on the expert” series digs deeper into the stories of our expert contributors. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Ali Schwanke is founder of Simple Strat, a marketing and sales consultancy and a Diamond HubSpot Solutions partner. She’s the host of the popular and long-running HubSpot Hacks series on YouTube…
Almost a third of brands signing deals with influencers over the last 12 months had no such deals in 2023 or 2022 according to tracking by sports and entertainment intelligence platform SponsorUnited. Of those brands, 96% entered into one partnership with a top 100 celebrity influencer (determined by social media following), while the remaining 4%…
Trinh Tham (left), founder of Straatt Business Reimagined, discusses leadership with (from top) Marni Puente, SVP/CMO SAIC; Karen Feldman, VP marketing and communications at IBM Consulting and keynote host Drew Neisser, founder of CMO Huddles. How can marketers overcome office politics to build cross-organization relationships needed to do their jobs? That was the topic discussed…