This second piece in our series of discussions with B2B marketers dives into how data quality claims match reality. Despite all the marketing technology and specialized services out there, the changing marketing landscape is challenging both marketers and their platform and publisher partners.
Our latest analysis based on interviews with B2B marketers shows the importance of intent data and how it improves focus and personalization. However, ease of use and tool burnout issues remain. It also points to future needs around conversations, compliance, niche audiences, and integration.
The merger of GfK and NielsenIQ consolidates share even further among the Marketing Research top 10, beyond the recent IRI and NPD combination. Deals like these don’t create growth acceleration immediately, and there are lessons to learn here.
By building a virtual solution for digital buying and selling, Drift expands from its core market and gets into a broader sales enablement space. Others looking to expand in B2B sales and marketing intelligence need to focus on M&A targets evolving into multiple spaces, not stuck in only one.
Still fresh from a rollup of three businesses, Onclusive is already executing M&A deals to augment the platform and enhance the vision it’s building. The firm is gaining new content types to monitor and measure and additional data and API capabilities to create more value for customers.
The partnership between Haymarket Automotive and Autovia creates a new business model twist centered on first-party data. Their approach is something to consider for B2B media companies looking to diversify their media and marketing services offerings even further.
This report analyzes trends and performance, providing our forecast of the Marketing Research market through 2025. It includes companies spanning full-service, panel sample, survey software, and industry research. We offer providers essential actions to grow their companies in this changing market.
This report analyzes trends and performance, providing our forecast for the Company, Contact, and Personal Information market through 2025. Companies continue to differentiate through international coverage, purchase and buyer intent signals, data services, and other performance marketing tools.
This report analyzes trends and performance, providing our forecast for B2B Media and Business Information through 2025. Companies continue to differentiate on data, marketing services, and now martech platforms as those with significant events assets more slowly recover.
Identifying how healthcare marketers use both vendors and media providers, and how they consume their information and services to access important audiences, shows the interplay of these two provider categories both now and in the future. Intent data is taking a backseat so far.
Its new funding, unique brand-strategy-as-a-service approach, and data engine will put more pressure on agencies, research providers, and information companies that serve large brands with their own intelligence offerings.
The merger of the companies works because of how they complement each other rather than compete head-to-head. Information providers looking for similar opportunities need to focus less on the many smaller-company sell sheets that bombard their desks weekly and more on the few key opportunities.
Born a data company, FreightWaves is adding content assets to deliver a supply-chain data, intelligence, and media solution. Now, as much of the global supply chain is upended, FreightWaves can tell companies what is happening, where, and why. Its reverse pivot into media provides lessons for all.
The outlook for in-person events is slowly shifting, but demand is still high for local and regional shows as well as education-focused efforts. A peek into the future also shows great interest in virtual and hybrid events post-pandemic.
With this deal, Salesforce snatches up a white-hot company that’s benefiting from the new work-from-anywhere business climate. Companies considering either of these platforms, or both, may have some leverage over the next six to 12 months.
Today’s event business model approach is doomed unless it evolves to deal with attendees’ reluctance to come back — especially women and younger attendees, who will define the future of in-person and hybrid events. Organizers adopting a business-as-usual approach going forward do so at their peril.