Dave Birckhead
Dave Birckhead
Dave is the Global Head of Marketing Technology at Spotify. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies to bring about marketing technology solutions that optimize business performance, accelerate innovation and enhance marketing. You can find Dave on Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus.
Care and Feeding of Machine Learning in Marketing
“Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine intelligence—whatever you’re doing if you don’t understand it—learn it. Because otherwise you’re going to be a dinosaur within three...
MIND THE (digital) GAP
Digital means different things to different people. Social. Mobile. Cloud. The Internet of Things. Big Data. All of the above. Ask five executives and...
Tales from the Crypt: What Keeps Data-Driven CMOs Awake At Night
Data has revolutionized marketing. Using data, marketers today can better understand their customers, deliver personalized one-to-one experiences, and drive significant bottom-line results. But along...
Humanizing Big Data
When most people think of advertising and marketing, an image of the “Mad Men” era agency comes to mind. But with surprising speed, the...
Play Ball: Why Data-Driven Attribution Is a Home Run
One of the best kept secrets in online marketing is that most campaign attribution data is completely wrong.” – Eric Peterson, CEO Web Analytics...
5 Keys to Getting Value From Big Data Marketing
We want to know what consumers are looking for, what their values are, and how can we meet their needs. It’s not just about...
When Adtech Meets Martech
It’s no secret that new technologies—along with an explosion of digital data—are disrupting traditional approaches to advertising, marketing and sales. In a survey conducted...
Big Data Marketing: Lessons from Top Gun
I feel the need…the need for speed.” – Maverick and Goose Personalized, one-to-one marketing has long been represented the “holy grail” for marketing. For years,...
Here Come The Hybrids
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain...
Customer 360: Understanding Your Customers in the Digital Era
Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard, Gartner When most people think of advertising and...
Why Personalization Is Set To Explode
Personalization techniques are now essential for success in both B2C and B2B e-commerce. This post will describe the need for personalization, explore how personalization...
Is Rebranding A Waste?
Evidence Mounts That Traditional Rebranding Is Ineffective and Irrelevant There is a growing body of evidence that spending money on “rebranding” as a separate business...
Big Data Marketing In The Cloud
The trend towards data-driven marketing in being accelerated and enabled by rapid advances in analytics approaches, big data technologies and cloud computing. Many business...
Marketing Metrics That Matter
How to Become a Marketing Hero Imagine the following scenario. A CMO presents the results of the latest marketing campaign to the CEO and other...
The Customer Lifecycle: Putting the “Me” in Marketing
The way consumers are researching and buying products has shifted significantly in recently years. Consumers have taken control of their purchase process. With websites,...
5 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch
As we look ahead to 2014, we expect the pace of change in marketing to only continue to accelerate. It seems like you can't...
The Power Combination of Creativity and Analytics
"If we look back just ten years, the CMO's job was 90 percent creativity and 10 percent science. I think now we're at...
5 Classic Signs Your Marketing Infrastructure Is Overbuilt
One of the interesting developments that we've noticed recently is that more and more companies are making significant investments in their enterprise marketing technology...
Top 10 Summer Reads for Marketers
Summertime is here. As the pace of work slows a bit and you escape to the beach or the mountains, it's a great time...
The Case for Tag Management
A Digital Marketing Essential The problem of managing tags, bits of code marketers use on webpages for measurement purposes, has become a growing challenge. As...