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In collaboration with Forest Taylor. For years, marketers have been forced to prioritize brand or demand, making difficult decisions to shift budgets between the two when new challenges arose—such as a new product, competitive shift, or other market disruption. Brand often lost this tug of war as the urgency of the moment drove marketers toRead more

Welcome to the August 2022 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus July 2022) and year-over-year (versus AugustRead more

Welcome to the July 2022 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus  June 2022) and year-over-year (versus JulyRead more

Welcome to the June 2022 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus May 2022) and year-over-year (versus June 2021).       Read more

I detest the term “thought leadership.” It’s a pet peeve, but thought leadership isn’t something that you somehow “do.” Tim Marklein nails it when he makes the case that this is something that has to be earned. It’s not to be – or shouldn’t be – lumped into the same sentence with demand generation. SplittingRead more

Welcome to the May 2022 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus April 2022) and year-over-year (versus May 2021).    Read more

Co-written with Joshua Swarz.  More than 26,000 attendees, including 600+ speakers, 400+ exhibitors, and over 400 members of the media made their way to San Francisco’s Moscone Center and surrounding hotels for the first in-person RSA Conference in more than two years. With friends, clients, and colleagues seeing each other for the first time inRead more

Welcome to the special RSA Conference edition of Top Conversations in Technology. In this analysis, we break down the rankings and trend lines for 33 security topics driving news and blog conversation over the past three-plus years, from January 2019 through May 2022. We look at which topics are leading, rising and falling to help technology marketersRead more

As the curtain goes up on the first in-person RSA Conference since 2020, this year marks something special.    It feels like a lifetime ago since the last show, and a lot has since happened in the world of security. There have been numerous high-profile breaches – from SolarWinds to Colonial Pipeline – that no doubtRead more

“Thought leadership” is one of the most over-used phrases in technology marketing. Everyone wants it. Most are trying to get it. Very few have it. If you’re in the first two camps, here are a few lessons from the third: Thought leadership is earned, not published. We hear from a lot of marketers that they areRead more