State of Marketing Technology 2017 Closing the Gap Between Martech Innovation and Adoption

It’s impossible for any single marketer or company to keep up with the rapid pace of change in marketing technology these days. Since the first Walker Sands State of Marketing Technology study was published a year ago, the number of martech vendors has nearly doubled, more than $1 billion in venture capital investment has flowed into the space, and marketing technology budgets surpassed advertising budgets.

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Reimagining marketing in the next normal

whitePaper | July 27, 2020

As governments gradually remove pandemic induced restrictions and businesses begin to reopen, there’s a sense that we might be on the verge of returning to “normal.” That is unlikely. During the months of lockdown and self-isolation, we have been, in fact, writing a new future.

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Brands and Branding

whitePaper | December 29, 2019

Branding has become one of the most important aspects of business strategy. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Branding is sometimes considered to be merely an advertising function. And many managers and business writers hold the view that branding is about the management of product image, a supplementary task that can be isolated from the main business of product management. This note provides an alternative perspective, arguing that: Branding is a strategic point of view, not a select set of activities.

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Paid advertising in a world of rising cost

whitePaper | September 30, 2022

Like gas and groceries, marketing is getting more expensive – and B2B SaaS marketers who rely on paid advertising feel the pain the most. Macroeconomic conditions and changes in B2B buying behavior have made traditional ad playbooks pricier, less effective, and less scalable: Ads are more expensive due to crowding and competition on paid platforms. People have changed the way they research products online, and they are leaving trackable platforms for dark social. If it feels like “people aren’t clicking on ads anymore,” you’re not alone. New privacy regulations make it difficult to target the right customers - and easy to waste ad budgets.

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8 ways brand advertisers, ad agencies, and AdTech companies can boost insights and ROI with the Media Data Cloud

whitePaper | March 8, 2023

Advertisers are constantly searching for new ways to adapt to the conditions of the fast-changing and highly regulated media landscape. With the Snowflake Media Data Cloud, organizations now have the depth of insight, analytical power, and collaborative tools needed to turn the challenge of a rapidly changing ecosystem into true business opportunities. In this white paper, you’ll learn exactly how businesses are leveraging the Media Data Cloud to optimize their advertising for optimal effectiveness, collaborating on data while improving their data security & compliance, identifying new channels for data monetization, and more.

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The Future of Programmatic will be Curated

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

The world of digital advertising has changed dramatically in the last decade. Not so long ago, deals were done with telephone calls, shaken hands, and manual insertion orders. But, with the advent of programmatic advertising and RTB, the supply chain connecting media buyers and publishers was transformed forever.

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Digital Advertising Trends in 2023

whitePaper | February 3, 2023

2022 has seen widespread change on both fronts. With this whitepaper, we hope to shed some light on this change, as well as giving you some tools to help you effectively tackle your paid digital advertising throughout 2023.

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Naked is an award winning creative agency best known for disrupting the global advertising business at the turn of the century with the simple idea that a brand is not the sum of its advertising. Today we are a global network of diverse talent focused on creating integrated strategies and creative marketing solutions for the digital age.

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