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Vishal Sood, Head of Product at Typeface, explores the debate between automation and creativity and dissects the significance of each in marketing. In the ever-changing world of content, it's crucial to identify what truly connects with your audience and leverage it across different channels. Yet, personalizing content for each channel, audience group, and geographical location can be a daunting task, but this is precisely where generative AI steps in as a game-changer. Today, Vishal discusses the level of content personalization that can be expected. Show NotesConnect With: Vishal Sood: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Vishal Sood, Head of Product at Typeface, explores the debate between automation and creativity and dissects the significance of each in marketing. Creative thinking is what generates innovative ideas, connects emotionally with the audience, and builds a brand's identity. While there is a fear that automation may eventually replace the creative elements of marketing, automation alone cannot replicate the depth of human creativity. Today, Vishal discusses automation versus creativity in marketing. Show NotesConnect With: Vishal Sood: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rio Longacre, Managing Director of Advertising and Marketing Transformation at Slalom, delves into adtech, AI, and the future of marketing. Initially, the introduction of generative AI triggered a wave of adoption by companies, neglecting to define clear objectives. However, businesses are now exploring how generative AI can empower their marketing and advertising efforts, driving sales and revenue growth. Today, Rio discusses avoiding the AI swirl.Connect With: Rio Longacre: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rio Longacre, Managing Director of Advertising and Marketing Transformation at Slalom, delves into adtech, AI, and the future of marketing. With mounting privacy regulations and the deprecation of third-party cookies, more companies are venturing into the ads business. While it is now easier to enter the space, building and running a successful ad network involves complexities such as balancing ad revenue with core business and creating demand. Today, Rio discusses whether every company is now an ad tech company.Connect With: Rio Longacre: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brian Minick, Chief Operating Officer at ZeroBounce, delves into maximizing email marketing effectiveness. Despite people saying email is “dead,” email marketing remains the fastest and most cost-effective way to get your message in front of your audience. But with inboxes overflowing and competition fierce, crafting emails that resonate and convert requires more than just a catchy subject line. Today, Brian discusses increasing sales with powerful email marketing.Connect With: Brian Minick: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brian Minick, Chief Operating Officer at ZeroBounce, delves into maximizing email marketing effectiveness. Amidst evolving algorithms and shifting consumer behaviors, building healthy and engageable email lists has become more challenging yet more crucial than ever. While marketers have traditionally relied on metrics like open rates and subscriber counts, today's landscape calls for a greater focus on quality to avoid ending up in the spam folder. Today, Brian discusses building healthy, engageable email lists.Connect With: Brian Minick: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rohit Maheswaran, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Lifesight, explores market mix modeling and modern media buying in an age of online privacy. With privacy regulation changes like GDPR, CCPA, and the departure of third-party cookies, marketers are becoming anxious. However, now is the time for marketers to reduce their reliance on platforms and build out a robust first-party data strategy. Today, Rohit discusses optimizing media buying in the privacy-first era. Show NotesConnect With: Rohit Maheswaran: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rohit Maheswaran, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Lifesight, explores market mix modeling and modern media buying in an age of online privacy. Marketing mix modeling has been around since the '60s, used primarily by larger companies with statisticians and data scientists. While the advent of individual-level tracking in the late 2010s led to its decline, marketing mix modeling is reemerging in popularity as individual-level tracking becomes more difficult to accurately measure. Today, Rohit discusses how marketing mix modeling unlocks scale and better budgeting decisions. Show NotesConnect With: Rohit Maheswaran: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nick Martin, Co-Founder of Direqt, explores into the future of marketing and chatbots. The future of online discoverability lies in conversational AI. With Google’s SGE already providing answers within search results, and the number of organic links shrinking, brands and publishers will need to prepare themselves for a chat-first future on the open web. Today, Nick discusses chat engine optimization as the new SEO for advertising.Connect With: Nick Martin: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nick Martin, Co-Founder of Direqt, delves into the future of marketing and chatbots. Chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, but deciding whether to build one for your business can be tricky. Ultimately, chatbot development and deployment shouldn’t be pursued solely on the merit of being an early adopter. Instead, chatbot development should help the business expand its customer base, increase engagement, and sell more products. Today, Nick discusses the benefits and drawbacks associated with building chatbots.Connect With: Nick Martin: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.