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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology News | March 31, 2026

Yesterday delivered a concentrated wave of announcements that, taken together, reveal a marketing technology landscape in genuine structural transition — not the incremental AI feature-adding of…

Yesterday’s Marketing Technology News | March 29, 2026

The common thread across all three themes is the gap between vendor announcements and operational readiness. Every major platform is announcing AI capabilities; far fewer…

Personalization with strong context delivers measurable leaps. Martech Futurist | March 28, 2026

This week’s research points to a marketing leadership inflection point. AI is no longer a future capability, but an operational reality that is simultaneously creating…

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Martechipedia™ Wiki

The marketing wiki with everything you need to know:

A/B Testing

A/B testing refers to the practice of comparing two versions of something in order…

User Experience (UX)

ce on a product or Web-based platform. User Experience (UX) is the overall experience…

Business Value (Scrum Element)

It is ultimately the product owner’s responsibility to determine the definition of business value,…

Hubspot Marketing Cloud

HubSpot Marketing Hub is an AI-powered marketing automation and CRM platform that helps organizations…

Retention Rate

Retention rate is a calculation of how many customers you keep at the end…

Sprint (Scrum Element)

A Sprint is a pre-defined period of time – usually two- or four- weeks,…

House of the Customer: A blueprint for 1:1, customer-first, employee-driven business transformation (2023)

House of the Customer defines the components and structure needed for organizations to create…

Personal Identifiable Information (PII)

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is any data that could potentially be used to identify…

_North Star Goals

North Star Goals are the ultimate goal of great personalized experiences, which can be…

Website

common topic, which could relate to a brand, an individual, product, cause, or organization.

Customer Lifetime Value Model

Brands have a thorough understanding of what channels, tactics, offers, and messaging motivate customers,…

Customer-First, Employee-Driven

When you are able to achieve both customer-first and employee-driven approach and tie them…


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