Marketing Technology
CRM, automation, data, and honest reviews of the martech stack.
A critical authentication bypass in the WooCommerce Social Login plugin lets unauthenticated attackers log in as any store user, including administrators. Store owners need to patch to version 2.8.8 immediately.
Marketing ops leaders keep asking whether a CDP replaces a CRM. It doesn't, and treating them as substitutes is how budgets get wasted on overlapping tools.
Forget the feature-matrix roundups. Here is how HubSpot, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Marketo and Salesforce Marketing Cloud actually behave once the contract is signed, the list grows, and someone has to migrate off one of them.
WP Engine and BigCommerce introduced Commerce Connect, a partnership that lets WordPress ecommerce stores scale to an enterprise commerce platform without downtime or changes to SEO, design, or user experience.
The feature grid isn't what determines whether a CRM works for marketing. The data model, the migration plan, and a clear line between CRM and CDP do.
JustAI closed a $17 million Series A round to build out its AI marketing platform, adding to a wave of capital flowing into AI-native martech this year.
Before you build next year's martech budget, run the audit that actually catches shadow subscriptions, dead integrations, and tools three teams are quietly duplicating.
