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What’s the difference between AdTech and MarTech?

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Technical advancements have blurred the lines between AdTech and MarTech to the extent that the terms are often used interchangeably. UPDATED: JUNE 2025) MarTech (Marketing Technology) and AdTech (Advertising Technology) are distinct aspects of modern marketing that are differentiated and simultaneously overlap and complement each other.

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Why don’t martech vendors provide a tool for the metric that matters?

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Whats curious, though, is how many martech vendors still seem oblivious to the idea that incremental sales are what truly count. Attribution sucks Attribution is the typical way martech measures performance. Lets assume I devote half my budget to search advertising and half to email marketing. That logic is flawed.

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What’s the difference between adtech and martech

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Technical advancements blur the lines between MarTech and AdTech so much that they the terms are used interchangeably. Martech(Marketing Technology) and Adtech(Advertising Technology) are distinct aspects of modern marketing that are differentiated and simultaneously overlap and complement each other. What is Martech?

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Why Google lost: The DoJ’s case in 11 slides

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Whatever the judge decides could upend everything about search and search advertising. Search engine dominance made Google a prime location for digital advertising. Our colleague Danny Goodwin takes a deep look at that in his article “ How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides.” Processing.

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How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides

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Google manipulated ad auctions and inflated costs to increase revenue , harming advertisers, the Department of Justice argued last week in the U.S. What follows is a summary and some slides from the DOJ’s closing deck, specific to search advertising, that back up the DOJ’s argument. vs. Google antitrust trial.

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Yelp brings antitrust lawsuit against Google

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A new chapter in Google’s antitrust troubles opened yesterday with Yelp filing a lawsuit alleging that Google’s monopoly in search has allowed it to illegally dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. The post Yelp brings antitrust lawsuit against Google appeared first on MarTech.

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The Google monopoly verdict: More industry reactions

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With Google ruled a monopoly in the world of search, reactions from the search advertising world continue to pour in. As the ruling stated “search text ads are a monopoly” but search advertising was not. Take our brief 2024 MarTech Replacement Survey Email: Business email address Sign me up!