Tag Archives: data

168: AI’s talent crunch: Marketing jobs on the brink and those set to thrive

At risk are campaign operators, generic content creators, and report-pulling analysts. Set to thrive are resident AI implementation experts who select worthy tools, data orchestrators connecting proprietary data to AI, product/customer marketers with genuine empathy, ethics guardians preventing bias issues, and localization specialists understanding cultural nuances.More

167: Moni Oloyede: The marketing ops identity paradox, attribution is a waste of time and GTM engineering is just sales ops

Your buyers can’t remember why they bought from you, our brains physically can’t store that information correctly. But we’ve built elaborate attribution systems pretending otherwise. Moni helps us understand why we need to stop crediting random touchpoints and start measuring how effectively each content piece performs its specific job in moving people through your funnel.More

165: Ashley Faus: Building content that matches actual human thinking by integrating lifecycle, content and product marketing

Marketing frameworks often fail because they ignore how humans actually behave. People don’t follow neat, linear paths; they explore, double back, and leap ahead based on genuine interests. Drawing from her diverse experience across corporate communications and lifecycle leadership, Ashley exposes how artificial walls between marketing functions create dysfunction while offering a solution. More

161: Angela Rueda: Meta’s Director of Martech on build vs buy, vendor selection and hybrid stacks

Angela walked into Meta’s engineering-first culture, discovering a sprawling mess of DIY custom martech solutions, and leading the organization through a fundamental mindset shift about build vs. buy decisions. She brings us through the technical and emotional journey of aligning more than 150 stakeholders ultimately forcing them to embrace a hybrid build-and-buy approach during a pivotal merger. More

153: Sundar Swaminathan: How Uber measures the ROI of marketing according to their former Growth Marketing Data Science Lead

After leading Uber’s Marketing Data Science teams, Sundar shares insights that work for both tech giants and startups. Beyond uncovering that Meta ads generated zero incremental value (saving $30 million annually), they mastered measuring brand impact through geo testing and predicting LTV through first-week behaviors. Small companies can adapt these methods through strategic A/B testing and simplified attribution models, even with limited sample sizes. More