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Migrating to a new email service provider (ESP) is never just a simple technical switch — the process also touches data, design, deliverability, and multiple teams. Lately, more and more businesses have been migrating to a new ESP. This is happening both because martech platforms are evolving with AI and because some ESPs are being […]

IAB Tech Lab is rolling out updates to OpenRTB aimed at a problem that’s been growing in programmatic: How to clearly define what live content means in the bidstream. The standards body announced new attributes for describing live content, along with an update to substitution macros that improves how pricing and discounts are communicated between

In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a marketing question to our very own MarTechBot, which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the broader internet. Question: There has been significant discussion about the ‘Warehouse-native CDP.’ Can you synthesize the arguments for why a brand should use its Snowflake

Google Cloud’s annual conference featured dozens of announcements aimed at enterprise marketers. Some represent genuinely new capabilities. Others are early-stage partnerships with vague timelines, or existing products repackaged under the conference spotlight. Sorting out which is which matters if you are trying to make real technology decisions — so here is a look at the

Contextual collaboration reflects a shift from structured interfaces to systems that interpret intent through language, behavior, and interaction. Instead of requiring users to translate what they want into filters and forms, systems can now work with context directly. As a result, experiences become adaptive rather than predefined. Relevance is shaped in the moment rather than

Personalization is no longer optional. B2B buyers expect seamless, relevant experiences at every touchpoint. For most marketers, however, that ambition collides with fragmented data, decaying contact records, and an increasingly complex privacy landscape that makes the data you do have harder to collect and maintain. The shift happening right now isn’t just technical. It’s structural.

Think about the last time you binged those true crime documentaries. The next time you opened your streaming app, the homepage likely shifted. Investigative series rose to the top. Maybe a notification alerted you when a new series dropped. Promotional emails highlighted only what you hadn’t watched. You didn’t see the data parsing or the

The consumer journey bounces around so much these days that the marketing funnel should be made of rubber. According to the MiQ Sigma report “From Funnel to Flexibility,” 86% of people switch digital activities at least once an hour, and 42% say their path to purchase is random. That kind of behavior makes the funnel

The March 2026 HubSpot updates are all about flexibility, especially in how your automation and data actually work. Across workflows, timing logic, and CRM management, many of the changes address limitations teams previously worked around. Whether it’s adding meetings into workflows, refining conditional logic, or gaining more control over how time-based automation behaves, the March

Today’s buyers are researching independently, comparing options, and forming opinions before ever engaging with sales. Additionally, Google AI Overviews now appear across a meaningful number of searches, covering queries with commercial and transactional intent in addition to informational ones. The first interaction a buyer has with your brand may not be through your website, ad,