Are you feeling the vibes yet? “Vibe” has become the latest AI buzzword. Even more than “agentic,” which is saying a lot. While both terms are widely open to interpretation — and therefore ripe to be appropriated by anyone selling anything — vibe stands out for sheer weirdness. The term originated with a post by Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, who described vibe coding as a new way of rapidly building …1967 was the Summer of Love; we will remember 202...| Chief Marketing Technologist
Martech for 2025: A brand-new, 108-page report on AI use cases, stack foundations, and market structure| chiefmartec.com
2025 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: 100X growth since 2011, but now with AI…| chiefmartec.com
tl;dr The martech landscape grew again since last year, up 9% to 15,384 solutions. While new AI natives continue to blossom, the previous generation is consolidating more. There’s also an exploding “hypertail” of custom software. We cover all of this and more in our new State of Martech 2025 report (free and ungated). Over 15 years ago, I tossed a bunch of martech logos on a slide to present the Rise of the Marketing Technologist …2025 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: 100X...| Chief Marketing Technologist
This is a short excerpt of data from The State of Martech 2025 report that will be released on May 6, 2025. You can get the complete 100+ page report and access to an extended keynote presentation of our research by registering for free for #MartechDay. It’s no surprise that stand-alone AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become ubiquitous. In our study of 96 martech and marketing operations leaders, 87.5% reported these …Beyond AI assistants: how AI is being more deep...| Chief Marketing Technologist
The following is a short excerpt from The State of Martech 2025 report that will be published on May 6, 2025 — #MartechDay. Sign up for free to attend our keynote presentation, which you can watch live or on-demand. You’ll also get first access to our 100+ page report, the new 2025 marketing technology landscape, and full deck of all the 2025 Stackie Award entries. Don’t miss the martech bundle of the year — register …Complicated to Complex: AI Agents and Managing a Dynamic Martech ...| Chief Marketing Technologist
Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet this past month. I’ve been heads down on research for our State of Martech 2025 report that we’ll be releasing on #MartechDay — May 6 — along with the 2025 marketing technology landscape. And the 2025 Stackie Awards. And a series of zero-fluff interviews with six industry leaders who are sponsoring our event this year. We’ll unveil it all in a big, free virtual event that you’re invited to. Trust …Everything you could want to know about AI, martech...| Chief Marketing Technologist
For years, martech was divided into systems of record and systems of engagement. Systems of record stored the “master” versions of data. CRMs and CDPs for customer data. PIM for product data. DAM for brand assets. ERP for inventory data. (I know, there’s a ton of acronyms in this piece, almost to the point of parody. Click on the image above for a larger-scale version to read the Acronymn Decoder Ring on the right.) Systems …Meet the new martech stack: systems of context and systems o...| Chief Marketing Technologist
It’s 2025, and martech stacks are going through all kinds of changes. From unified data to agentic workflows, from consolidating vendors to proliferating gen AI, and from commercially-packaged platforms to custom-developed apps, martech stacks — and the marketing ops heroes who manage them — are experiencing a Renaissance of new ideas and new technologies. The 2025 Stackie Awards are your opportunity to contribute to that Renaissance. “What are the Stackie Awards?” you say. They’...| Chief Marketing Technologist
If you predicted that tech stacks would shrink in 2024, it was probably a good bet. After all, the trend line had been headed in that direction. The average number of apps in companies’ stacks shrank in both 2022 and 2023, albeit by only a modest amount, less than 10% on average. But economic times were tight last year, and CFOs were on the warpath to cut SaaS waste. And, of course, there’s the ongoing …Despite financial pressure — or because of it? — tech stacks are actually expand...| Chief Marketing Technologist
Welcome to 2025! It’ll be the Year of AI Agents in martech, in word and deed. Here’s what I think that means… From the moment there was more than one software product in a company’s tech stack, there’s been jockeying to determine who was boss. If the tech stack were an orchestra, which product would be the conductor? Whichever one directed the flow of data among apps and determined which function in which app was …AI agents are the new iPaaS and the next frontier of intense compet...| Chief Marketing Technologist
Happy holiday season, ye merry marketing maestros! Here’s a marvelous way to get prepped and psyched for the New Year that’s right around the corner. Frans Riemersma and I just released our latest report, Martech for 2025. It’s 108 pages of our latest research and analysis of what’s actually happening with marketing technology in the maelstrom of AI madness. No heaps of hype. Just hard data and a hopefully helpful framing of the facts. You …Martech for 2025: A brand-new, 108-page re...| Chief Marketing Technologist
tl;dr The martech landscape grew again since last year, up 9% to 15,384 solutions. While new AI natives continue to blossom, the previous generation is consolidating more. There's also an exploding 'hypertail' of custom software. We cover all of this and more in our new State of Martech 2025 report (free and ungated). Over 15 years ago, I tossed a bunch of martech logos on a slide to present the Rise of the Marketing Technologist| Chief Marketing Technologist
In our recent State of Martech 2024 report — which is free and now fully ungated — Frans Riemersma and I analyzed a ton of transformation happening across the martech industry, from the AI-powered explosion of the martech landscape to three counterintuitive truths of 'composability' in martech stacks. Two of our most important findings, however, were the prioritization and adoption of foundational capabilities that are necessary for marketing to harness the full power of AI:| Chief Marketing Technologist
Take a guess at filling in the blank here: _______ is to AI Agents as Data is to AI Models The answer, as you likely surmised from my headline, is APIs. Let's discuss why... Data is the differentiation in AI models For the past year and a half, the hyper hype cycle of AI madness has agreed on only one clear truth: data will be your most strategic asset in the Age of AI. LLM| Chief Marketing Technologist
For years, the conventional wisdom in martech has been: the fewer apps in your stack, the better. It's obvious, right? By reducing the number of apps, you will save money, have a better user experience, and improve your governance control. The CFO's default answer to optimizing martech costs? Cut apps. The CIO's default answer to optimizing martech governance? Cut apps. Seems rational. But what if it wasn't necessarily true? Last week, on #MartechDay (May 7),| Chief Marketing Technologist
Happy #MartechDay to you! On the first Tuesday of May, we celebrate the martech industry and all the talented marketing technologists and marketing ops professionals who work in it. Cheers to you for all you do in pioneering this wild and woolly field. It's also the day when Frans Riemersma and I release our annual update to the marketing technology landscape. You can download a hi-res JPG image or a hi-res clickable PDF of it.| Chief Marketing Technologist
Happy #MartechDay to you! Today during our virtual Best of Breed Marketing Summit — you can still catch sessions on demand for this next week — Frans Riemersma and I released the 2023 edition of the marketing technology landscape. You can download a hi-res slide of the landscape or even a super hi-res PDF. But the best way to dig into the landscape is to use the free interactive version on martechmap.com. It perhaps comes| Chief Marketing Technologist
It's #MartechDay! I'm delighted to finally share with you the 2022 marketing technology landscape, a joint production between myself and Frans Riemersma of MartechTribe (and a whole bunch of wonderful contributors). Here are the key things you want to know: The number of solutions is now 9,932 — up 24% from 2020Here is a slide version of the image you can use in decks and contentHere is a high-res PDF you can use for printing| Chief Marketing Technologist