In the world of commerce, AI has grown to become a useful and vital tool. One area of business where AI is having the most immediate effect is sales. Traditionally a skillset that relies on human interaction and persuasion, it is being gradually transformed by technology. According to the 2018 State of Sales Report, by Salesforce, UK sales leaders anticipate AI adoption in their industry to grow by 155% by 2020. But how exactly is AI transforming sales?

The martech buying process is often a long and complex one, especially for enterprises with large deployment needs. It’s not a decision taken lightly - and key decision makers will go through huge amounts of research, sit through numerous demos, and run various test drives before making the best possible choice.

This article talks about the factors that business need to consider when choosing between different...

Corporate narratives are changing. Thanks to the branding teams at household names like Gillette and Nike,...

The role of a chief marketing officer (CMO) can often turn out to be one filled with uncertainty. At the moment, the average tenure of a CMO sits at only 44 months, and the job is often regarded as the most at risk within the C-suite. The question is: why? There are many reasons, but one common view is that CMOs struggle to prove to the rest of their C-level colleagues how...

If you sometimes wonder what your communications team actually does, apart from sharing corporate news, earnings announcements and dealing with the odd crisis you may want to think again. Often viewed as the dark horse of the business, internal communications and these wizards with words have the ability to transform your organisation and employee engagement for the better.

It’s no surprise...

2018 has been a tumultuous year for technology, with growing concerns of privacy and high profile scandals shaking previously unassailable giants. These giants heralded a new era of capability for marketers, creating new ways of targeting, unprecedented insight and scale. But now that customers are increasingly sensitive to data usage, and turning away from walled ecosystems, what does the future hold for marketing technology in 2019?

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It’s no secret that digital innovation has disrupted the retail industry. Hybrid shopping habits such as showrooming are the norm for 75% of British consumers, and half (51%) spend more online than in physical stores.

When it comes to...

Last year, eMarketer’s Geoff Ramsey highlighted the “crisis of trust” across the digital ecosystem: not only pointing to the need for better relations between brands and consumers, but also within the marketing community itself; covering advertisers, agencies, publishers, and ad tech players.

As 2019 begins, issues with misunderstanding and mistrust persist — especially in programmatic. One of the main talking points at this...

Online marketing offers many advantages over its traditional brethren from a metrics perspective. You can, for example, examine click-through-rates to a promotion, to a blog or to an article to your website, and with eCommerce you then analyse whether that online interaction has led to a number of sales. At the core of this marketing effort is also the ability to collate customer data, which can be used with the help of a customer relationships management (CRM) system...

2018 has certainly been an interesting year both for the digital marketing industry and those at the front line. The exciting part – or terrifying, depending on where you stand – is that it is only going to get bigger, with WARC estimating in September that martech spend was at $100 billion globally.

Here, we take a...