It's been yet another year of significant mergers and acquisitions in the marketing, advertising and customer technology sphere.

What does 2020 hold for digital marketers, and marketing generally? We ask a raft of industry experts from the marketing technology and industry community to give us their thoughts on 2020 and beyond, and what marketers will need to know moving forward.

These days, most marketers recognise customer experience (CX) is vital for a healthy, profitable brand. But while most marketers want to offer good CX, how best to go about it seems to be the sticking point.

Technology has finally given marketers the tools to answer the tough questions around how, where and when to spend their marketing dollars. But it’s the ability to transform alongside technology, gain internal buy-in for change and iterate that’s vital to achieving success.

More than 30 per cent revenue growth online a year-and-a-half and a highly collaborative cross-functional workforce are just two achievements True Alliance has realised after transforming its digital platforms, processes and organisational approach.

The age of the ‘marketing campaign’ is over as good marketers shift to a focus on continuous experience and storytelling, CMO of Salesforce, Stephanie Buscemi, says.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Verint, Freshworks, Hoozu, Salesforce, Datorama, Hootsuite, Zendesk, Qualtrics, Tableau, LinkedIn and Acquia.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Freshworks, Microsoft, Salesforce, Datorama, Cision, PubMatic, Qlik, Zeta Global, Blippar, and more.

As leaders move into a new calendar year, there's always the opportunity to take a close look at what is and isn’t working in their go-to-market strategies, and how things could improve. And given the rapid pace of change in the industry, it's vital leaders take stock regularly and adapt and pivot to meet ever-changing customer needs.

You can't talk about marketing today without the conversation steering to artificial intelligence or machine learning. Once touted as a silver bullet for data collation, analysis, as well as customer service, AI and ML have grown past the original hype and smart marketers are using them as a way to amplify human intelligence, rather than as a replacement for it.

Salesforce has stepped up its Marketing Cloud game once again, acquiring AI-powered data analytics player, Datorama, in a deal estimated to be worth upwards of US$800 million.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Tableau, Pipedrive, AppNexus, Datorama, Localytics, iSynergy and Kustomer.

All the latest martech and adtech news from Salesforce, Datorama, Optimizely, Zendesk, The Trade Desk, Mautic, Radius, Oracle, Crimtan, ShareThis,TubeMogul and Lightspeed.