Tag: Cloud
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The First Party for Martech<>AdTech Convergence is in the Cloud
AdTech and Martech converged in Cannes last week. It’s a foreshadowing of what’s to come. As Larry Allen VP and GM of Enablement and Addressable Audiences at Comcast said on the Croisette, “The biggest trends in advertising right now are the move to advanced audiences and the use of deterministic first-party data.” Advertising is of…
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Table Steaks: Customer 360 Made Easy
The most important thing brands can do now is join their various customer data together into a single table with one row per customer. Call it a source of truth, a golden record, a master customer file, a C360 or a C180….call it whatever you want. Keep it in the cloud, on your premises, in…
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Outcomes as a Service: Advancing MarTech from SaaS to AI
The Software as a Service (SaaS) model began when Salesforce launched its “End of Software” campaign in 2000 and IPO’d only 4 years later. At the time, people were still buying software in a box. CRM software like Siebel was incredibly difficult to run and required constant costly upgrades. Salesforce was different. Its product was…
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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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