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Happy New Year! Five years ago, Jason Baldwin and I published Martech 2030 (ungated PDF), a report predicting five major trends that would shape marketing and martech through what we christened The Decade of the Augmented Marketer. We’re now at halftime at the start of 2026. How are those predictions holding up? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to grade them. Their assessments were pretty favorable — especially for our vision of “harmonizing humans & … In 2020, I made 5 predictions about marketing and martech for this decade. Here’s how they’re going… Continue Reading »

For the past few months, I actually haven’t paid for stock images at all. Instead, I’ve been revisiting illustrations and visuals I’ve already licensed for Martech Zone and modifying them for new articles, landing pages, and promotions. That approach works… up to a point. Eventually, creative reuse starts to show its limits. Styles drift, visuals…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Choosing the right mix requires clear performance modeling, transparent forecasting, and alignment on how each channel contributes to pipeline, CAC, and strategic growth.
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Armagh-based Lyxity introduces IP-protected Intelligent Content technology as AI-powered content market surges past £2.8 billion globally Lyxity, an AI content optimisation company founded by Jim McWilliams in Armagh, Northern Ireland, has launched its Intelligent Content platform, promising to reduce content creation time from 100 hours to just 45 minutes whilst delivering ROI improvements of up […]

Google is testing a blue “Send" button in the search query box on its home page. When you type in your query, you can click "Send" to search Google for that query.