Latest annual marketing and ad technology lumascape shows more than 5300 solutions, up 39 per cent on 2016
The latest Scott Brinker marketing technology lumascape has been released and dubbed the “Martech 5000” for the rising number of vendors featured this year.
The seventh annual edition of the martech map features 5381 solutions, up 39 per cent year-on-year, from 4891 unique companies, also up 40 per cent over 2016. The lumascape is a lesson in growth rather than consolidation, with just 4.7 per cent of the solutions features in 2016 removed this year.
Commenting on the latest edition, Brinker described the distribution of marketing technology vendors as a “long tail”, with a small number of major providers, such as Adobe, Oracle, Marketo, Salesforce, IBM and HubSpot, followed by a trail of niche, vertical startups, innovators and specialists. Yet again, this year’s map suggests there are still plenty of products out there that are more glorified features than standalone suites, with more consolidation inevitable across the martech and adtech space.
Brinker also pointed out of the martech companies listed, there’s a significant discrepancy between size and scale. For example, only 6.9 per cent are enterprises, with more than 1000 employees or a public listing. Nearly half are investor-funded startups at any pre-exit stage (48.8 per cent), and 44.2 per cent are private businesses with fewer than 1000 staff and no funding data.
“Increasingly, the major providers are evolving into true platforms — serving as stable foundations that allow more specialised software to be easily plugged into them,” Brinker continued. “This reduces risk and cost for marketers to augment their marketing stacks with long-tail tools that best serve their particular needs.”
As a result, instead of choosing between a suite from a single vendor or a best-of-breed collection of products from multiple vendors, many marketers have the ability to take both a suite and best-of-breed approach to their marketing technology stack, Brinker said.
“They use the suites from major providers as general, centralised platforms to coordinate customer data and campaigns, while extending their capabilities with these highly-focused, long-tail tools,” he said.
The 2017 edition dwarfs those of previous years. In 2011, the year the lumascape was created, about 150 companies were featured, leaping to 350 in 2012 and more than 2000 by 2015.
At first glance, categories to have experienced the biggest growth over the past year with new solutions include display and programmatic advertising, marketing automation, content marketing, customer intelligence, audience data, social media marketing and mobile marketing.
The landscape was produced by Brinker, editor of chiefmartec.com and chair of the US MarTech conference, with Anand Thaker.
Click here to see the full lumascape
Follow CMO on Twitter: @CMOAustralia, take part in the CMO conversation on LinkedIn: CMO ANZ, join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CMOAustralia, or check us out on Google+:google.com/+CmoAu
In the third and final episode of our 3-part CMO50 video series exploring modern marketing and why it’s become a matter of trust, we’re delighted to be joined by Telstra’s former CMO and now digital services and sales executive, Jeremy Nicholas, and Adobe VP Marketing Asia-Pacific and Japan, Duncan Egan.
Flash back to the classic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Television-obsessed Mike insists on becoming the first person to be ‘sent by Wonkavision’, dematerialising on one end, pixel by pixel, and materialising in another space. His cinematic dreams are realised thanks to rash decisions as he is shrunken down to fit the digital universe, followed by a trip to the taffy puller to return to normal size.
Why is it there is no shortage of leadership development materials, yet outstanding leadership is so rare? Despite having access to so many leadership principles, tools, systems and processes, why is it so hard to develop and improve as a leader?
As a nation united by sport, brands are beginning to learn money alone won’t talk without aligned values and action. If recent events with major leagues and their players have shown us anything, it’s the next generation of athletes are standing by what they believe in – and they won’t let their values be superseded by money.
