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 […]...

Doug Brodman. Image: Twitter Twitter has hired Doug Brodman as its U.S. agency development director. Brodman comes to Twitter from Google where he spent the last five years on Google’s U.S. agency team. Why you should care In his new role, Brodman will lead the team that works with the big holding companies and their […]...

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For physical retailers, an omnichannel strategy often includes a mobile app that can be used in-store. But how good are those apps? Research firm Forrester tested them out, and, out of nine major retailers, found that four were tops. The new study, “The Forrester Retail Wave: US Mobile apps, Q1 2019” (available only to Forrester […]...

In recent years, business-to-consumer marketers have been rightly obsessed with millennials because they are increasingly becoming household decision-makers. At the same time, they are becoming decision-makers for corporations and small businesses as well. In fact, 73 percent of millennials who work in business are involved in the technology-purchasing process for their companies. It’s time for […]...

Source: Edison Research 2019 Facebook has lost an estimated 15 million users in the U.S. during the last two years, according to a report from Edison Research. The firm’s “The Infinite Dial 2019,” surveyed 1,500 U.S. citizens age 12-years and older and found that Facebook usage overall has dropped from 67 percent to 61 percent […]...

Morning Brew founders Alex Lieberman (left) and Austin Rief. While marketers of all kinds are laboring over dozens of personas that make up their target audiences, the team at highly successful newsletter brand Morning Brew think they have found a better way. Target one persona … just one. “We picked a real human being, detailed […]...

Cardinal Path’s Marketing Analytics Buyer’s Guide 2019 arose from a need to address a growing uncertainty about which digital tools, techniques, and applications will best serve the enterprise, as optimized consumer journeys—driven by data insights—become the cornerstone of an organization’s competitive advantage. This carefully curated shortlist of solutions has delivered significant business value for Fortune […]...

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 […]...

For the first time, more than half (51 percent) of the U.S. population has listened to a podcast, up from 44 percent last year. Put another way, 144 million people, or 20 million more people than just a year ago, have listened to a podcast. Frequency is on the rise, too. An estimated 90 million, […]...