Web visitors today don’t have time to browse all over your site. They want to search for – and find – what they need quickly and easily through personalized experiences. With site search users being up to 5 times more likely to convert, the stakes for relevant results and recommendations are higher than ever before. […]...

The martech industry seems to be constantly on the hunt for the next big thing, and understandably so. In an industry where we said goodbye to a handful of platforms and brands in 2018 (R.I.P. LittleThings, Go90s, Rocketfuel), the next big thing may be what keeps us all not only chugging along, but successful. For […]...

When it comes to automation, many agencies are ambivalent about the technology. Marketing Land’s own digital agency survey found 72 percent of respondents indicated “neutral” when asked how they felt about automation. I was not all that surprised by this high number based on my own agency experience. Here’s why. 1. We’re losing sleep trying […]...

Location is a critical tool to personalize programmatic advertising, according to a new report (registration required) from Simpli.fi. Mobile-location data reveals user behavior, brand preferences and purchase intent. When combined with programmatic buying, these signals can yield better performance and insights at scale, the report found. Though more than 75 percent of programmatic ad buying […]...

Isabelle Hierholtz, the user strategy director for the AR/VR/XR advisor company Digi-Capital, believes mobile AR advertising offers companies an easy place to start when trying to adopt a mobile AR strategy. “This can be done with digital agency partnerships as a first step. It’s a good way to learn what works and what doesn’t,” said […]...

The proliferation of digital channels and devices can make it difficult for B2B marketers to accurately target prospects with the right messages, on the right devices, at the right times. Faced with these challenging market dynamics and increasing ROI pressure, B2B marketers at companies of all sizes can gain benefits from a marketing automation platform. […]...

Data first. Sounds easy, until you try to implement the tools, mindset and culture in your company. At MarTech West, Dave Lucas from Fracture presented a session on how to finally win the battle of creating a culture of consistently making data-driven decisions. This topic was of particular interest to me as I have spent […]...

Last Thursday Amazon announced the first set of HIPAA compliant healthcare voice apps on its platform: Express Scripts, a leading pharmacy services organization: Check delivery status of a prescription and set up shipment notifications. Cigna Health Today, a global health service company: Understand the membership benefits, manage health improvement goals and receive personalized wellness incentives […]...

  Email list segmentation is a critical component of any successful email marketing campaign. Building custom segments is a highly valuable practice, but many organizations tend to overlook the benefits of segmentation. Segmentation affords us the opportunity to improve our messaging and calls-to-action based on the target audience, and testing our segmentation enables us to […]...

Netflix will announce its Q1 ’19 earnings on Tuesday – when we’ll know for sure if its subscription price hike was a good business move in the short term. Meanwhile, Disney announced Disney+, its new streaming service platform, will only cost $6.99/month and its stock shot up over 11% overnight. This further complicates the pricing […]...