MARKETING
Marketers want better features from their martech solutions

Marketing organizations are still doing it. Ripping out martech solutions in favor of alternatives with better features, better integration capabilities and more data centralization.
And that includes mission-critical solutions like marketing automation and CRM.
The 2022 MarTech Replacement Survey showed a continuation of some of the trends detected in 2021. Organizations are still re-training team members to handle new technology rather than bringing on new hires. Proving ROI has always been important, but the importance is growing. Businesses are still switching from homegrown to commercial technologies. And the voice of marketing operations is getting louder.
Solutions replaced. It never ceases to surprise us to see so many marketing teams facing the challenge of trading their existing marketing automation and CRM platforms for something new. It’s easier to swap out SEO tools, and that’s the third most frequently replaced category in this report.
Up this year was the replacement of project management, ABM and e-commerce platforms — but respondents seem to have figured out virtual events in 2020 and 2021, because there was less activity in that category in this latest report.
A deep dive. The survey, based on responses from almost 300 marketers, not only looks at which solutions were replaced, but also:
- The key reasons for the changes.
- Who championed the changes.
- How the new implementations were managed.
- How long the replaced solutions had been in place.
Download the 2022 MarTech Replacement Survey here. It’s free and requires no registration.
Why we care. Marketing technology is no longer a nice add-on that supports campaigns and creative initiatives. In fact, it stopped being that a number of years ago. The martech stack is at the center of marketing, determining what marketing organizations can attempt and achieve, defining viable and exceptional strategies, and creating the conditions for success — or failure.
Within the constraints of budgets and the need to demonstrate ROI, every savvy marketing team sees the stack as something constantly evolving and hopefully improving. You’re all on a journey — what we are humbly trying to do is help show you the way.
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The 2021 MarTech Replacement Survey is here.
MARKETING
Drive Conversions and Generate Engagement With Instacart Promotions


Through deals and coupons, Instacart has saved consumers more than $700 million in 2022. As we dive into 2023, the leading grocery technology company in North America has big plans to help consumers save even more while also helping CPGs generate sales. Instacart recently announced an advertising solution that helps both sellers and consumers called Instacart Promotions. This exciting feature is designed to help drive conversions, boost sales, and generate overall engagement on the app.
Interested in this feature and how it can help your business on Instacart? Read on as we dive into everything you need to know about this ad solution including benefits, how to get started, and more.
What are Instacart Promotions?
Instacart Promotions is an advertising feature that’s now available to all brand partners, including emerging brands, within their open beta program. Promotions give CPGs the opportunity to offer new deal structures, promotions, and incentives with Instacart Ad campaigns. With this feature in place, consumers will have access to more promotions, coupons, and deals that are tailored to them within the Instacart Marketplace.
“With the launch of our new Instacart Promotions, all of our brand partners now have the ability to set up coupons and promotions that can drive meaningful business results while also passing on more savings opportunities to consumers. We’re proud to continue expanding our portfolio with additional self-service capabilities, ad formats that drive results, and measurement that brands need to understand the true impact of their campaigns on Instacart.”
– Ali Miller, VP of Ads Product at Instacart
Source: Instacart
How Do Instacart Promotions Work?
Promotions, now available in Ads Manager, gives consumers the ability to discover more promotions and savings opportunities within the Instacart app. These promotions now show up directly on product item cards before checkout for easy accessibility. Promotions allow advertisers to customize their campaigns to sync with their goals and objectives whether that be driving sales, building baskets, or boosting trials.
Instacart shared a recent example of a brand successfully utilizing Promotions…
Athletic Brewing, General Mills, Sola Company, and Wells Enterprises (maker of Halo Top) are strengthening campaign performance by pairing Instacart Promotions with ad formats such as Sponsored Product and Display. Instacart Promotions include two new flexible and customizable structures: Coupons (“buy X units, save $Y”) and Stock Up & Save (“Spend $X, Save $Y”).
According to Instacart, in the coming months, the company “will work to further enhance the new offering with new deal structures such as Free Gifts and Buy One, Get One (“BOGO”). The new deal structures will help brand partners run “Free Sample” programs that can win new customers and serve personalized discounts for different customer segments, such as “new to brand” and “new to category.”
Source: Instacart
Instacart Promotions Benefits
Deliver Value and Savings to Consumers
With Instacart Promotions, you have the opportunity to deliver value and savings that will have consumers coming back for more. With this savings feature, your brand can stand out among the competition and offer a variety of deals to shoppers ie: “Buy X units, Save $Y”.
Hot tip: Ensure you are selecting products for your promotion that are well-stocked and widely available.
Tailor Your Campaigns to Specific Objectives
With a variety of savings options available, your brand can structure deals to fit specific business goals and objectives.
Hot tip: If you’re looking to drive visibility and awareness, try pairing promotions with Sponsored Product campaigns.
Access Real-Time Performance Insights
The Promotions beta program is live and can be accessed within Instacart Ads Manager. Within Ads Manager, advertisers can access real-time insights to maximize performance and adjust campaigns as needed.
Hot tip: Make sure your budget matches your discount and objectives.
“As an advertiser, Instacart’s unique offering to self-manage promotions is so exciting! Historically, making adjustments to offer values and other promotion parameters was a more manual process, but now we’ll be able to easily make optimizations in real-time based on redemption performance.”
– Emily Choate, Senior Specialist, Marketplace Search at Tinuiti
Interested in Instacart Promotions?
With Instacart Promotions, you have the opportunity to reach new customers, build bigger baskets, and drive sales. Interested in testing out the beta program or looking to get started with advertising on the app? Drop us a line – we’d love to help elevate your CPG brand on Instacart.
MARKETING
(Re)Introducing your favorite Optimizely products!


It’s important to us that you, our valued customers and partners, can identify with the tools you use daily.
In that pursuit, Optimizely set out to simplify the way we talk about our product suite. That starts, first and foremost, with the words we use to refer to the technology.
So, we’ve taken a hard look at everything in our portfolio, and are thrilled to introduce new names we believe are more practical, more consistent, and better representative of the technology we all know and love.
You may have seen some of these names initially at Opticon 2022 as well as on our website. In the spirit of transparency, the team here at Optimizely wanted to make sure you had full visibility into the complete list of new names, as well as understand the context (and rationale) behind the changes.
So, without further ado…
Which names changed?
Some, but not all. For your ongoing reference, below is a complete list of Optimizely products, with previous terminology you may be familiar with in the first column, and (if applicable) the new name in the second column.
Used to be… |
Is now (or is still)… |
Meaning… |
DXP |
A fully-composable solution designed to support the orchestration, monetization, and experimentation of any type of digital experience — all from a single, open and extensible platform. |
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Content Cloud |
A best-in-class system for building dynamic websites and helping digital teams deliver rich, secure and personalized experiences. |
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Welcome |
An industry-leading and user-friendly platform helping marketing teams plan campaigns, collaborate on tasks, and author content. |
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DAM |
A modern storage tool helping teams of any size manage, track, and repurpose marketing and brand assets (with support for all file types). |
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Content Recs |
AI-powered and real-time recommendations to serve the unique interests of each visitor and personalize every experience. |
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B2B Commerce |
A templatized and easy-to-deploy platform designed to help manufacturers and distributors drive efficiency, increase revenue and create easy buying experiences that retain customers. |
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Commerce Cloud |
A complete platform for digital commerce and content management to build dynamic experiences that accelerate revenue and keep customers coming back for more. |
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PIM |
A dedicated tool to help you set up your product inventory and manage catalogs of any size or scale. |
|
Product Recs |
Machine-learning algorithms optimized for commerce to deliver personalized product recommendations in real-time. |
|
Web |
An industry-leading experimentation tool allowing you to run A/B and multi-variant tests on any channel or device with an internet connection. |
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Full Stack |
A comprehensive experimentation platform allowing you to manage features, deploy safer tests, and roll out new releases – all in one place. |
|
Personalization |
Optimizely Personalization |
An add-on to core experimentation products, allowing teams to create/segment audiences based on past behavior and deliver more relevant experiences. |
Program Management |
Optimizely Program Management |
An add-on to core experimentation products, allowing teams to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of an experiment. |
ODP |
A centralized hub to harmonize data across your digital experience tools, providing one-click integrations, AI-assisted guidance for campaigns, and unified customer profiles. |
So, why the change?
It boils down to three guiding principles:
- Uniformity: Create a naming convention that can be applied across the board, for all products, to drive consistency
- Simplicity: Use terms that are both practical and concise, ensuring the names are something that everyone can understand and identify with
- Completeness: Develop a framework that showcases the full and complimentary nature of all the products and solutions within the Optimizely suite
As the Optimizely portfolio comes together as a complete, unified platform, it’s important that our names reflect this, as well as support our 3 key solutions (i.e. orchestrate amazing content experiences, monetize every digital experience, and experiment across all touchpoints).
Other questions? We’ve got you covered.
Q: Why have you made these product name changes?
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- We wanted to simplify how we talk about our portfolio. The renaming applies a naming convention that is both practical and concise.
Q: Do the new product name changes affect the products I own?
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- No, there is no impact to product functionality or capabilities.
Q: Do the new product name changes affect who is my Customer Success Manager or Account Manager?
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- No, there are no changes to your Customer Success Manager or Account Manager.
Q: Do the new product name changes affect the ownership of the company?
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- No, ownership of the company has not changed. We have only made changes to the Product Names.
Q: Have any contact details changed that I need to be aware of?
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- Only contact details for former Welcome customers has changed. These are the new contact details you should be aware of: Optimizely, Inc.| 119 5th Ave | 7th Floor | New York, NY 10003 USA. Phone: +1 603 594 0249 | www.optimizely.com
Q: Where can I send any follow up questions I might have?
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- If you have any questions about the Product Names, please contact your Customer Success Manager or Account Manager.
MARKETING
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