Two of the most consequential technology sectors in modern business are marketing technology (MarTech) and advertising technology (AdTech). Though they are frequently...
Forecasting the future of a market growing at nearly 20 percent annually requires a willingness to take the numbers seriously. The global...
Every major wave of change in marketing technology has been driven by a shift in the underlying capability of software. Email made...
One of the more nuanced stories in the global MarTech market is the distinction between two different growth figures that can coexist...
A compound annual growth rate of 19.9 percent is not a number that appears in mature, saturated industries. It is the kind...
In any global industry, the question of where leadership is concentrated tells you a great deal about where the industry came from...
Budget conversations in technology rarely tell a story as clearly as this one. When McKinsey research published in 2024 found that approximately...
In 2011, Scott Brinker, then a marketing technology consultant and founder of what would become chiefmartec.com, published the first edition of what...
Somewhere between 2011 and today, marketing technology stopped being a category and became an ecosystem. When Scott Brinker, VP of Platform Ecosystem...
There is a particular kind of confidence embedded in a long-range market forecast. When analysts at Grand View Research project that the...
Marketing technology is one of those industries where the numbers seem to keep outpacing expectations. Each year, analysts revise their forecasts upward....
Every time a brand sends a targeted email, personalises a website landing page, or traces a customer’s path from the first social...
Every time someone picks up a phone, opens a browser, or turns on a connected television, advertising technology is working quietly in...
Predictive modelling for finance has changed character meaningfully over the past five years. The methods used to be statistical: logistic regression, gradient...
Fairness metrics in machine learning have moved from research papers into supervisory expectations in U.S. finance over the past two years. The...
Deep learning in U.S. finance has had a longer and more uneven journey than the headlines suggest. The technique has been deployed...
Every prediction that card networks would be displaced by faster, cheaper alternatives in U.S. retail payments has, so far, been wrong. The...
An MLOps engineer at a top-10 US bank used to measure success by whether a new credit-risk model made it into staging....
The phrase “the US fintech market” hides four very different businesses inside it, and treating them as one industry is the fastest...