MarTech Diet
The stack, mapped
Ten standing briefs. Each is a permanent remit with an editor behind it, not a tag applied after the fact.
- Desks10, fixed by the publication brief
- Anchor deskData, Privacy & Consent
Anchor desk
Data, Privacy & Consent
First-party data strategy, cookie deprecation, consent management and clean rooms.
- First-party data
- Cookie deprecation
- Consent management
- Data clean rooms
- Marketing-data governance
- Customer privacy
- Identity resolution
- Data activation
- The deletion pipeline inside your third-party data, in plain terms
- The sender requirements that now govern B2B email
- Consent management for B2B marketers, in plain terms
- 01AI & Generative MarketingGenerative AI in content and campaigns, marketing agents, and what autonomous execution does to the marketing team.Generative AI contentMarketing agentsAutonomous campaignsAgentic marketingLatestAI agents in marketing: what can be trusted to run unsupervised
- 02Demand Gen & ABMPipeline programmes, account-based orchestration and intent-led targeting - how demand actually gets built.Demand-generation programmesAccount-based marketingPipeline programmesAccount orchestrationLatestCustomer proof is now a capacity problem
- 03MarTech Stack & OpsCDPs, automation, integrations and the long march of stack consolidation.Customer data platformsMarketing automationMarketing OperationsPlatform integrationLatestMarketing automation is splitting into rules and judgement. Most instances cannot tell them apart
- 04Advertising & MediaProgrammatic, connected TV, retail media and the open web versus the walled gardens.Programmatic advertisingConnected televisionOTT advertisingRetail mediaLatestGoogle keeps its ad exchange. What the remedies change for B2B buyers, and when
- 05Content, SEO & GEOContent strategy, search, and the new discipline of optimising for generative engines.Content marketingSearch engine optimisationGenerative-engine optimisationContent operationsLatestOptimising for generative engines: what has actually changed
- 06Analytics & AttributionMeasurement, marketing-mix modelling and the return of first-party analytics.Marketing measurementMarketing-mix modellingAttributionFirst-party analyticsLatestThe MQL now has a second audience: the bidding algorithm
- 07CX & PersonalizationJourneys, real-time personalization, loyalty and the technology of retention.Customer journeysReal-time personalisationCustomer experience platformsLoyalty technologyLatestSafari now decides what counts as first-party personalisation
- 08Social, Influencer & CommunitySocial platforms, creator tooling and community-led growth.Social platformsInfluencer technologyCreator platformsCommunity-led growthLatestLinkedIn verification is becoming a reach tier. Marketing should be counting the badges
- 09Events & Webinar TechField, virtual and hybrid event platforms, and what actually produces pipeline.Virtual eventsHybrid eventsField-event platformsWebinar technologyLatestWhat actually produces pipeline from a webinar programme