Optimize & Prophesize – @jonathanmendez
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Goodbye Customer Data Platforms
Last night Myles Younger shared the a16z primer The Rise of the Composable CDP. As I was reading I was confused when it was written. Composable CDPs rose about 2 years ago after the SaaS vendorscape of CDPs with their long integrations and high fees were platformed themselves by what they were running on, namely…
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Singularity: AdTech and MarTech are Converging
Owners of first-party data are pioneering new and different sets of technical solutions to old advertising and marketing use cases. It is merging two markets previously separate, together as one. The results are expected to be something the industry has been waiting almost two decades for. A step-change in performance of digital marketing and advertising.…
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Beginning of the Endpoint: AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks Compete/Connect in Marketing Cloud
The oil that makes the cloud run is data. At the start, AWS and S3 provided a simple storage service for data. It was web-based, secure, scalable and cheap. It changed the game. It’s been 17 years now since S3 launched and kicked off the “Cloud Wars.” Not only have Amazon/AWS Google/GCP and Microsoft/Azure been…
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Always On – Marketing Use Cases for Streaming Data Apps
Marketing Cloud maturation means your Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure and GCP instances are going to be more connected to real-time data streams and apps. For brands this data flows in the form of precious first-party data and unlocks a new world of marketing possibilities. Data modeling, machine learning and real-time algorithmic decisions will become the…
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How Google Tag Manager Destroyed a SaaS Vertical and Maybe the Future of Martech
Tag management may be the single most important piece of marketing technology. However, very little is widely known about tag management since it is seen as a solution to a technical issue rather than a marketing problem. That they have turned out to be the same thing as we move into the next decade is…
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The TikTokization of Media – Understanding Who We Are
The Real Me The algorithm wars started in Search. One of the key takeaways from that time was made by the great technologist Vint Cerf who famously said Google didn’t have better algorithms, they just had more content. Algorithms becoming ingrained and habit forming in our content discovery process may have started with Search but…
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Differential Privacy: The Future of Advertising & Marketing
The pressure of responsible data privacy in marketing and advertising is certainly the most important sea change in media since the beginnings of social. Interestingly, social media is probably most responsible for the awareness of data practices, some malicious and some unfortunate that began the swell of consumer data regulations. We know now we are…
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Google Cookie Apocalypse Now Redux
It’s not often I get three people reaching out to me the same day to get my POV on a webinar but that happened last week after Ari Paparo’s quite informative “Cookie Apocalypse” briefing on the Google Chrome announcement. Why were people reaching out to me? The timing of Google’s announcement killing third-party data is…
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Where are the Chief Marketing Technology Officers?
Scott Brinker posted last week about the rise and diversity of ‘marketing technologists’ over the past decade. I remember when he coined the term because nine years ago this week, I was the first marketing technologist he interviewed on his blog. This got me thinking about current org roles, titles, responsibilities and as Scott puts it,…
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Do You Have a Customer Data Moat or Lake?
There may be no more important business challenge in the future than data commoditization. Brands must begin setting data strategies to ensure customer data, especially the constant stream of behavioral data, will maintain business advantage over time. This is a difficult and hugely important problem to solve. Without data advantage in the future, is there…
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