The global digital marketing software market is expected to grow from $56.77 billion in 2021 to $67.53 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.95%. The digital marketing software market is expected to grow to $141.84 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.38%.

Marketing technology is going through a major evolution. In order to succeed in today's fast paced digital world, brands need to adopt new technologies and strategies at a rapid pace. To help you stay on top of the latest trends, we've rounded up five shocking facts about marketing technology that might surprise you. All these points are essential to remember when you’re building a marketing strategy. The world is changing fast, and the best way to stay ahead is by listening carefully to customers and giving them what they want.

Jorge Zuñiga Blanco is a leading eCommerce expert who has provided his services to growing organizations throughout the world. He has a diverse background of industries to his credit, giving him the ability to relate and contribute to business owners in a variety of markets. He has more than 20 years in the eCommerce industry and, for the past nine, has dedicated his expertise and knowledge to helping executives and managers develop their businesses.

Featuring vast, engaging, niche communities and high standards of moderation, it’s hard to come up with a topic that doesn’t fall within a Reddit community. A Pew research report puts Reddit as the 10th most-used social media platform in the United States, and as of January 2021, there were 50 million daily active Reddit users worldwide. That said, Reddit is unlike any of the other popular social media platforms, and marketing on Reddit must be approached with that in mind. Let’s look at the ways that brands are marketing and advertising on Reddit.

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands manufacture, market, and distribute their products without intermediaries, enabling themselves to reduce costs, directly interact with consumers, and ensure a seamless start-to-finish buyer experience.

FabFitFun, the leading lifestyle membership for women, announced that it has secured U.S. patent 11468473 that describes technology and functionality needed for courier services to deploy targeted digital ads, opening up an entirely new advertising ecosystem to reach consumers. This functionality includes building rich recipient demographics and serving appropriately targeted ads that could be deployed via package tracking pages, package status email updates, mobile apps, and other related digital and physical venues.

While some might paint it as a foolproof way to make money, the reality is that starting a dropshipping business isn’t easy, and achieving success with it is harder still. Having the right technologies on your side is half the battle, so let’s go over the elements you need to master to improve your chances of dropshipping dominance.

Marketers use several digital marketing channels to connect with their audience, engage them, and convert them into customers. Email is one of these channels, which is highly crucial for marketers. According to a Litmus study, email marketing offers an average ROI of $36 for every dollar spent. However, the fast-changing landscape, especially in data privacy, has made reaching the target audiences with a personalized email experience at the right time complex. So, how are enterprise marketers executing emails to maximize the results? To understand this, OMI partnered with Ascend2 to conduct a study. The following are a few key takeaways from the study.

Our winner of the 2022 Adobe Experience Maker Award in The Engager category, Veronica Lazarovici, lives up to the mission of her company, Alma, which makes it easier to find quality mental healthcare. "I'm going against the hustle wave," she told me. "I like to think that my productivity hack is just taking regular time off. After a recharge, I work better, have more patience, more creative ideas, and more problem-solving abilities." Veronica sat down with me from her holiday in Romania to share more about what it takes to be an award-winning marketing operations leader.

If you didn't start planning for the holidays in July, now is the perfect time to get creative with your marketing. Here are some things you can do right now to prepare for the holiday season:

At a time when enterprise retail brands and consumers are uncertain about the economy, Zeta’s record-setting activity levels prove how the efficiency of its marketing platform supports how brands engage and convert high-value audiences across all digital channels

Attentive is the leader in conversational commerce. They help brands reinvent the way they manage their business-to-consumer communication through the use of text messaging.

As marketers look to the bulk of their annual ad budget in Q4, Anyword recommends early prep with these unique strategies for high-performing campaigns. Anyword, the data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) copywriting platform, recommends a slate of best practices for marketers as the busiest shopping time of the year approaches – Black Friday, the kickoff to a projected $1.45 trillion in holiday season consumer spending.

Exploring the challenges of obtaining first-party data and how the cookieless future will impact marketers' relationships with customers. Consumer awareness and concerns about data privacy are driving data regulations and changes in the tech sector as brands move from third-party cookies to first-party data and other less invasive methods of gathering customer demographics, analytics and historical details. Let’s take a look at marketing in a world without third-party cookies, and how it will impact a brand’s relationships with its customers.

Maintaining an in-house team of content creators and analysts can be incredibly resource intensive. It could be even more expensive if you are targeting traders across regions. This means you need a way to offer multilingual content, which is neither simple to accomplish nor easy in terms of compliance. Fortunately, there is a simple way to minimise costs while implementing all the above. The answer lies in automation of content creation and distribution. Here’s how.