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When B2B Barbie meets a virtual double and Lady Trifecta…

Exo B2B

Her whole team was also dressed in pink and she made her presentation by trying to draw an analogy between the themes addressed in the film and the reality of content marketing professionals. As I wrote in my previous post, the vast majority, if not all, of the comments, speeches, opinions, etc. We were served.

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Suit over Gartner's Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Suit over Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Big Marketing Ploy In an earlier post I wrote about ZL Technologies lawsuit over Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant, over what it considered “multitude of illegalities&#.

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What Gartner’s 2018 CMP Magic Quadrant Says About the Future of Marketing

Contently

For the first time ever, Gartner, a leading research and advisory firm for technology companies, released a Magic Quadrant on the content marketing platform (CMP) space. That alone says a lot about current state of marketing and content—and the Gartner CMP report says a lot more about where it’s going.

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At B2B Forum: the elephant in the room was AI

Exo B2B

And guess which topic monopolized both presentations and conversations? So far, the vast majority, if not all, of comments, interventions, opinions, etc. on AI in marketing have been that it should play the bottom two roles in the quadrant, Gartner style, as created by Andrew Davis (below). Artificial intelligence (AI).

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At B2B Forum: the elephant in the room was AI

Exo B2B

And guess which topic monopolized both presentations and conversations? So far, the vast majority, if not all, of comments, interventions, opinions, etc. on AI in marketing have been that it should play the bottom two roles in the quadrant, Gartner style, as created by Andrew Davis (below). Artificial intelligence (AI).

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PR is creating tension between B2B CEOs and their CMOs, Research Finds

Champion Communications

Measurement misalignment Recent research from Gartner found that CEOs’ top priority for 2023 remains growth – despite the current economic downturn. So clearly, the metrics that CMOs are presenting to their CEO need to relate to growth; at the moment, they don’t.

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Visible and invisible tech stacks, and the upsides and downsides of “shadow IT” in martech and beyond

chiefmartech

More than a decade ago, a pioneering analyst at Gartner named Laura McLellan, predicted that CMOs would spend more than CIOs on technology. It may be ungoverned by IT, presenting security and compliance risks. But it does present a non-trivial trade-off. Fascinating, isn’t it? These are all legitimate concerns.