The holiday season is upon us

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Good morning, Marketers, and here we are again.

Does it seem like just yesterday we were preparing to say goodbye and good riddance to 2020? Well here we are about to do the same to 2021 and I wish we were going out on a healthful high note. 

But this is not the season to be miserable, so let me say on behalf of the MarTech team that we hope your individual 2021s were fruitful and rewarding — and let’s hold out some positive hopes for 2022. We may as well: As the saying goes, “What way is there but forwards?”

You’ll see stories on MarTech over the holiday season, but this Daily Brief is taking some time off. You’ll receive it again come January. Cheers!

Kim Davis

Editorial Director

No thank you. “The Future of Work is a 60 Year Career.” What happened to the utopian dream of technology taking over the hard work and letting us put our feet up?

About The Author

Kim Davis is the Editorial Director of MarTech. Born in London, but a New Yorker for over two decades, Kim started covering enterprise software ten years ago. His experience encompasses SaaS for the enterprise, digital- ad data-driven urban planning, and applications of SaaS, digital technology, and data in the marketing space. He first wrote about marketing technology as editor of Haymarket’s The Hub, a dedicated marketing tech website, which subsequently became a channel on the established direct marketing brand DMN. Kim joined DMN proper in 2016, as a senior editor, becoming Executive Editor, then Editor-in-Chief a position he held until January 2020. Prior to working in tech journalism, Kim was Associate Editor at a New York Times hyper-local news site, The Local: East Village, and has previously worked as an editor of an academic publication, and as a music journalist. He has written hundreds of New York restaurant reviews for a personal blog, and has been an occasional guest contributor to Eater.