1. THE CMO
THE RISE OF SOCIAL INSIGHTS

2. In the past, marketers were confronted with a lack of timely, insightful data. Today, our CMOs face an entirely
different set of obstacles that range from data overload and analysis paralysis to the “always on” consumer.
We measure and track activity across multiple platforms—website, organic and paid search, social, marketing
automation, CRM—in the quest to be better, smarter marketers and improve return on marketing investment.
Though in reality, it is often difficult to find meaningful insights in the mass of data provided by these tools.
All challenges aside, when marketers do find ways to turn data into actionable insights, it leads to
company-wide productivity gains and improved profitability rates as high as 6%1. This has empowered
leading CMOs to not only own marketing strategy, but to drive broader strategies when it comes to
market decisions and corporate strategy.
The buyer’s journey has moved online, spans across multiple devices, and is influenced more
than ever by peers. This has lead to a tipping point for marketing innovation, with social media
being the biggest disrupter. Marketers have to go beyond passive listening and mass messaging
to connect with and engage influencers within their target audience. The convergence
of Marketing Technology (MarTech) and Advertising Technology (AdTech) into MadTech,
combined with our ability to hyper target at scale, is shifting the playing field and allowing
marketers to meet these new challenges head-on.
1. Forbes, “Big Data, Analytics And The Future of Marketing And Sales.” July 22, 2013
INTRODUCTION
THE CMO & THE RISE OF SOCIAL INSIGHTS

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE CMO & THE RISE OF SOCIAL INSIGHTS
MEDIA DISRUPTION AND THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE
Demographics Data to Characteristics Data
Data Disruptions Leads to Accelerated Insights
Age of Customer Insights
TIPPING POINT FOR MARKETING INNOVATION
Automated is Powered by Predictive
MadTech = Martech + Adtech
SOCIAL BEYOND MARKETING
Hyper Targeting at Scale
Marketing Plays Offense with Insights
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4. MEDIA DISRUPTION AND THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE
Access to vast amounts of consumer data (demographics, preferences, sentiment) via social media is shifting the
landscape for marketers faster than ever before. This disruption is forcing brands to change the way they engage
with their buyers and is accelerating the speed at which they need to act in order to remain relevant.
This shift is affecting how budget and resources are allocated and how the customer journey is impacted.
The way marketing used to be—a rinse and repeat methodology—now has to be re-thought, because social
media amplifies the voice of the customer, allowing them to demand greater value and personalization.
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MEDIADISRUPTION
THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE
SOCIAL MEDIA
AMPLIFIES THE VOICE OF
THE CUSTOMER

5. DEMOGRAPHICS DATA TO CHARACTERISTICS DATA
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Demographic-based marketing is dead and characteristic marketing is on the rise. Combining demographic data with
characteristic data is changing the way brands hyper segment, understand and engage with customers and prospects.
By using tools that leverage characteristic data, like Insightpool, marketers can learn more about their consumers beyond
gender, age, and location to find what truly motivates and drives consumers to action. Incorporating filter data, like
Facebook topic data, into the equation gives marketers the ability to determine predictive characteristics that correlate
with real engagement and intent.
Never before have marketers been able to understand buying behavior by unlocking conversations, moments, feelings and
raw details in regards to their audiences. Enter the power of social insights. Social media data has powered marketers with
the availability of characteristics data, and combined with the ability to synthesis it in real-time, marketers can now take
insights to action before your competition. This has caused a powerful disruption in businesses which elevates the CMO to
make smarter decisions using insights.
DEMOGRAPHIC-BASED
MARKETING IS DEAD
AND CHARACTERISTIC
MARKETING IS
ON THE RISE.

6. DATA DISRUPTION LEADS TO ACCELERATED INSIGHTS
Data-driven insights power CMOs to move business forward through results. With this shift, activation across
specific media channels (traditional TV/Print/Digital) will continue to show diminishing returns due to the
changing media landscape (multi-screen, mobile). It’s less important to be everywhere to everyone and more
about being in the right channels, where your target audience is active in an omni-channel approach.
For example, one of the most buzz-worthy ads of the Super Bowl in recent history wasn’t even a
commercial—it was a tweet from Oreo during the 2014 blackout saying, “Power out? No problem,”
accompanied by a picture that said “You can still dunk in the dark.” This was retweeted 10,000 times
in one hour, according to AdAge, and brought questions to the marketing community wondering if a
“free” social campaign like this had a greater payoff than an actual Super Bowl ad costing millions.
This disruption is what is causing this shift away from traditional channels to a strategy that’s more
conversation-focused, that takes place at the right time and place.
Today, customers have more control than ever due to the reach and influence of social media.
Communication is no longer effective in a one-to-many approach; people are having real,
one-on-one conversations with brands and expressing what they want—not what a brand
thinks they want. In this current landscape, you must learn to engage with consumers on a
personal level in order to build authentic, lasting and mutually beneficial relationships.
4. Garg, Ashu. “MarTech and the Decade of the CMO”, February 17, 2015.
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“EXPENDING RESOURCES, GUESSTIMATING RESULTS, AND
HOPING FOR THE BEST— THAT IS MARKETING’S PAST,“
SAYS ASHU GARG4.
YOU CAN STILL
DUNK IN THE
DARK.
- @OREO, SUPERBOWL
VIRAL TWEET 2014

7. AGE OF CUSTOMER INSIGHTS
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Retaining and upselling existing customers is often more cost effective than obtaining new
customers. And social media is giving brands an opportunity to rethink the way they engage with
their customers. According to Forrester5, “Empowered consumers now control their options via
multiple channels and devices.”
The more you know about your customers, the better you can serve them. Analyzing customer
data can help you develop a bigger, more complete picture by providing insight into customer needs,
behaviors and actions that will ultimately enable you to create a better customer experience. In other
words, you can create a highly personalized approach with relevant messages for each individual
customer. According to McKinsey, the number of digital touchpoints increasing by 20% annually as
more offline consumers shift to digital tools and younger, digitally oriented consumers enter the ranks of
buyers. 8
“Put yourself in the customer’s shoes and think about what they would want. Virgin Atlantic is a relatively
small airline when compared to titans like Delta and British Airways, yet Virgin is still the number two airline
in the U.K. and one of the most memorable. How have they done it? A strong focus on customer experience,
including in-flight bars, massages, or manicures, and a staff that has been trained to be casual and fun, says
Bryan Kramer, CEO, TED Speaker, Best Selling Author. “Virgin figured out what people flying on commercial
airlines wanted, and delivered it in spades.”
5. VanBoskirk, Shar., et al. Predictions 2016: Personal At Last For B2C Marketers. November 13, 2015, available from Forrester Research.
8. McKinsey Quarterly, “Brand success in an era of Digital Darwinism”, February 2015
“VIRGIN FIGURED OUT WHAT PEOPLE...
WANTED, AND DELIVERED IT IN SPADES.”
UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER
CHARACTERISTIC DATA
TURN CUSTOMER INSIGHTS
INTO ACTION
CREATE A HYPER TARGETED AND
PERSONAL APPROACH
TRANSFORM THE CUSTOMER
EXPERIENCE

8. TIPPING POINT FOR MARKETING INNOVATION
TIPPINGPOINT
MARKETING INNOVATION
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“WE EXPECT TECHNOLOGY SPEND BY CMOS TO INCREASE 10X IN 10
YEARS FROM $12 BILLION TO $120 BILLION, UNLOCKING A HUGE
OPPORTUNITY FOR MARKETING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AND
OPENING THE DOOR TO THE DECADE OF THE CMO.“
- ASHU GARG,
GENERAL PARTNER,
FOUNDATION CAPITAL4
4. Garg, Ashu. “MarTech and the Decade of the CMO”, February 17, 2015.
We’ve talked a lot about what advancements in technology mean for the customer experience. But what about the brand experience? Harnessing
insights via technology allows marketing to move beyond expending resources, guesstimating results, and hoping for the best4. Enhanced automation,
predictive analytics and the emergence of MadTech means that the future of marketing operations is destined to be more efficient, more precise and
more effective than ever before.

9. AUTOMATED IS NOW POWERED BY PREDICTIVE
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What if you could predict the right conversations with the right audience? What if you could predict trends and
topics of the moment? With advancements in technology and data, brands like CCM Hockey, Coca-Cola and
Ridgid use tools like Insightpool to analyze data and pull out clusters of insights that brands didn’t know that
their communities cared about.
For the first time, marketers can make intelligent marketing decisions based on social data that gives them
opportunity to drive business decisions. These predictive technologies will provide the next-generation
CMO with insight into audiences that have intent to purchase their brand. The ability to not only
automate your marketing pathway but have it learn and optimize in real-time will drive incredible
returns on investment.
This real-time behavior allows brands to be relevant with high-influence audiences around
hyper-targeted topics. The instant interaction allows brands to become more efficient
and communicate directly with customers, thus increasing overall productivity and even
engagement. INSIGHTS DRIVEN
MARKETING
CHARACTERISTIC DATA
CUSTOMER INSIGHTS
MADTECH

10. MARTECH + ADTECH = MADTECH
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5. VanBoskirk, Shar., et al. Predictions 2016: Personal At Last For B2C Marketers. November 13, 2015, available from Forrester Research.
For the first time, marketers are empowered by the fusion of two distinct technology disciplines.
Marketing Technology (MarTech) and Advertising Technology (AdTech) collide to create MadTech,
along with a whole new set of solutions that give marketers the ultimate advantage.
MADTECH IS THE CONFLUENCE
OF MARKETING, ADVERTISING AND
TECHNOLOGY5

11. The convergence of data and advertising/marketing means that CMOs have a unique opportunity to leverage
MadTech in 2016. There are many benefits of the data-driven automation brought on by MadTech—increased
sales, time and budget savings and increased customer loyalty, just to name a few. In fact, 56% of ad-tech
agencies6 say this increase in data-driven solutions—and the automation of many functions—has freed up
resources to be creative and focus on strategies. It’s safe to say that if you’re not tapping into the data-
technology influx, you’re missing out on huge opportunities in the coming year.
WHAT MADTECH MEANS FOR CMOS
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6. Hot Topics, “What is MadTech and why should you care about it?,” 2015.
“THIS IS GOING TO BE THE YEAR WHERE
IT ALL COMES CRASHING TOGETHER:
MARKETING TECH + AD TECH = MADTECH.“
WHAT MADTECH MEANS FOR CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
“IT’S ALREADY BEEN STATED
THAT MADTECH IS HAPPENING,
BUT VERY THEORETICALLY. THIS
YEAR, EVERYTHING WILL MOVE
INTO IMPLEMENTATION MODE,”
SAYS DEVON WIJESINGHE,
CEO AT INSIGHTPOOL.
BRANDS OFTEN KNOW WHAT
CUSTOMERS WANT TO BUY
BEFORE THEY DO5
MadTech is leading the way for the über-personalized customer exchange. Thanks to burgeoning
technologies, the personalization process is becoming more and more automated. By leveraging
the vast amounts of data on customer buying patterns and preferences, brands can now
deliver personalized messaging at scale. For example, advancements in artificial intelligence and
predictive technologies (think self-learning algorithms and the like) means that brands often know
what customers want to buy before they do5.

12. SOCIAL BEYOND MARKETING
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11. Adeni, Nabeel. “Social Media Beyond Marketing”. June 2014.
Embracing change is often easier said than done—especially for larger
companies. However, getting your brand on board with the marketing
shift will play a crucial part in future success. Identifying opportunities
that can accelerate growth while saving time means high gains, in both
capital and efficiency.
SOCIAL
BEYOND
MARKETING
“AS A BUSINESS
SOLUTION,
SOCIAL HAS EVOLVED,
MOVING WELL BEYOND
THE MARKETING
DEPARTMENT, TO
ADDRESS BUSINESS
OBJECTIVES ACROSS
THE ORGANIZATION.”
- MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW11

13. HYPER TARGETING AT SCALE
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Since broad-reach marketing channels came to be, marketers faced a
choice between high reach and high engagement. Today, marketers can
hyper target audiences and quickly optimize their efforts to drive scaled
execution to larger audiences. High reach and high engagement can be
combined in order to drive business results at levels that will move the
needle for even the biggest companies.
“MARKETERS KNOW THAT TARGETING IS ONE OF THE
MOST FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF ANY ORGANIC
OR ADVERTISING STRATEGY BUT GET CAUGHT UP IN
REACH VS ENGAGEMENT,”
SAYS LEEANN BERNER, CMO AT INSIGHTPOOL.
“HYPER TARGETING AT SCALE ALLOWS MARKETERS TO
COMBINE EFFORTS AND DRIVE SCALED EXECUTION.“

14. MARKETING PLAYS OFFENSE WITH INSIGHTS
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9. Yu, Jim. “The Modern-Day CMO: 7 Trends That Will Drive Digital Marketing Success” February 9, 2016.
Marketers are increasingly expected to link their consumer activation offline and online to ROI.
When confronted with this expectation, too many marketers play defense to stitch together a
data story to justify their choices. This mentality needs to change to an offensive mentality. Great
marketers will take advantage of the consumer data available and the technology that integrates
with it to drive thought leadership across entire organizations. According to Marketing Land,
CMOs are increasingly becoming more accountable for delivering results from their overall digital
marketing and transformation efforts which provides them with a huge opportunity, but also
comes with a lot of challenges.9
Marketing insights will drive revised customer service policies, shape product innovation and
direct operations on supply chain strategy. Data will not only power ROI, but empower a litany of
key organizational decisions that will grow the role of the CMO with it.
CMOs have to move beyond the chief ‘marketer’ in their title,” says Forrester Research VP and
Principal Analyst Sheryl Pattek. “They should step up their influence in the C-suite to become
a full corporate officer while understanding the business influence they have. CMOs who have
evolved in that way are being tapped for CEO in some leading organizations.”
The ability to show true value on insights enables marketers to show their worth to the business
stakeholders that focus on company growth. Additionally, this gives the CMO the ability to focus
on increasing the number of areas where they can better align marketing insights to business
goals.
“FOR MOST CMOS, I FEEL THAT TRUE VALUE IS IN AN INSIGHTS
ENGINE THAT POWERS THE DOWNSTREAM WORD OF MOUTH
COMMUNICATION FOR THE BUSINESS. THESE ACTIONABLE
INSIGHTS SHAPE BUSINESS DECISIONS, PRODUCT DEFINITION
AND MESSAGING. THIS APPROACH TO INSIGHTS WILL
TRANSFORM THE ROLE OF THE CMO IN 2016.”
- DONALD MACDONALD, CO-FOUNDER OF THE COLLECTIVE AND INSIGHTPOOL ADVISOR

15. WHAT MADTECH MEANS FOR CMOS
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10. Rooney, Jennifer. “CMO Tenure Hits 48 Months, And Chief Marketers’ Moves Reflect Rising Influence“ March 2015.
“CMOs’ ability to leverage digital and analytics to create value for the
business also has been a factor in longer tenure,” Tom Seclow said in a
statement. Seclow leads Spencer Stuart’s Marketing Officer Practice.
“The ability to create measurably successful marketing initiatives built on
customer insight has increased CMOs’ credibility in the C-suite.” 10
In the age of digital marketing and digital information, data provides
meaningful insight into your customer base so that you can have genuine
and highly personalized interactions with your audience. Data allows for a
remarkable understanding of consumer action and behavior—it’s this insight
and information that helps brands form lasting relationships with customers
and ultimately furthers business objectives.
WITH THE EVOLVING ROLE OF
THE CMO AND ABILITYTO MAKE
STRATEGIC BUSINESS DECISIONS, IT’S
NO WONDER THAT MORE CMOS ARE
NOW BECOMING CEOS OR SITTING ON
EXECUTIVE BOARDS. WITH A PULSE ON
EVERY MOVING PART OF THE BUSINESS,
THE CMO IS ABLE TO GIVE INSIGHT
INTO EVERYTHING FROM PRODUCT
ROADMAPS AND BUDGET SPENDS
TO TRENDS FOR THE BUSINESS AND
CUSTOMER DATA.

16. LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN
HARNESS THE POWER OF SOCIAL INSIGHTS
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