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MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

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walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. None of these has the data depth or scale of Facebook, Google, or Amazon but their audiences are big enough to be interesting. shoppable video is growing rapidly.

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Send in the Clouds: Martech Moves to Cloud Platforms

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The immediate question is whether it can retain its position as a primary platform for customer data and customer-facing applications, or that role will be taken over by cloud platform vendors like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure and cloud database specialists like Snowflake and Databricks. I don’t know the answer.

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Companies Scramble to Report on COVID-19 Business Impact

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The index draws on trillions of Web visits tracked by Adobe systems to construct a digital consumer shopping basket tracking a mix of products including apparel, electronics, home and garden, computers, groceries, and more. Food and health products fell after an initial stock-up surge in mid-March. Really, no free shipping?)

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2017 Retrospective: Things I Didn't Predict

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It’s not my favorite exercise: the best prediction is always that things will continue as they are, but what’s really interesting is change – and significant change is inherently unpredictable. Did you know that Amazon accounted for more than half of all Black Friday sales last week?) It’s the time of year when people make predictions.

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Amazon Buys Whole Foods: It's Not About Groceries

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Most of the comments I’ve seen about Amazon ’s acquisition of Whole Foods have described it as Amazon (a) expanding into a new industry (b) continuing to disrupt conventional retail and (c) moving more commerce from offline to online channels. This has nothing to do with Amazon being evil.

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Quaero AdVantage CDP Bridges Identified and Anonymous Data

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It’s a common pattern: several vendors proudly roll out new products they developed in secret, only to find they’re all very similar. Quaero has built standard connectors to common products, both to load data and access it. So they come up with similar solutions. Simultaneous rollout. I've had this picture in my head for years.

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StrongView Moves Beyond Email to Real-Time, Contextual Marketing

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Rotating banners on the company Web site position StrongView as a “product platform” and “marketing cloud” as well as mentioning “cross-channel lifecycle marketing”, “present tense marketing”, “true one-to-one communication” and “the first customer insight solution supporting unlimited cross-channel interaction data”.