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175: Hope Barrett: SoundCloud’s Martech Leader reflects on their huge messaging platform migration and structuring martech like a product

In twelve weeks, Hope led a full messaging stack rebuild with just three people. They cut 200 legacy campaigns down to what mattered, partnered with MoEngage for execution, and shifted messaging into the product org. Now, SoundCloud ships notifications like features that are part of a core product. Governance is clean, data runs through BigQuery, and audiences sync everywhere. The migration was wild and fast, but incredibly meticulous and the ultimate gain was making the whole system make sense again.More

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

152: Sarah Krasnik Bedell: A data eng turned marketer on embedded marketing analysts and batch vs webhook pipelines

What happens when a data engineer with an obsession for truth-testing crashes into marketing’s ‘best practices’? Sarah’s journey from code to growth unfolds like a trained detective story, where she picks apart marketing myths and rebuilds them with an engineer’s first principles. Her fresh take on centralyzed vs decentralyzed data team structures favors embedding an analyst deeply in marketing and growth teams.More

151: Austin Hay: An operator’s guide to AI agents, composability, building in concert and self-designing APIs

Something extraordinary is brewing in the world of martech. In the near future, Austin thinks AI agents will turn into an omniscient digital butler, anticipating your needs with uncanny precision while vanishing into the background of your workday. But the real revolution unfolds in the seemingly mundane machinery of marketing operations, where innovative companies are transforming their spaghetti mess of data pipes and platforms into something approaching digital poetry. More

95: Battle of the CDPs: Packaged vs. Composable, 10 Experts Weigh In

The debate between packaged and composable CDPs boils down to a trade-off between out-of-the-box functionality and tailored flexibility, with industry opinions divided on what offers greater long-term value. Key factors to consider are company needs and data team size. But if you do decide to explore the composable route, consider tools that focus on seamless integration and adaptability rather than those who claim to replace existing CDPs.More

91: David Chan: How dual-zone approach and journey orchestration are reshaping CDPs

Expect to reevaluate the roles of older platforms in your martech stack as CDPs get smarter. And if your organization’s data strategy resembles more of a herding cats scenario than a well-oiled machine, maybe it’s time to look into that dual-zone approach. It’s a way to make sure everyone from your IT folks to your marketing creatives are playing from the same strategic playbook.More