Report: Marketbridge recognized in the Marketing Measurement Landscape

Report: Marketbridge recognized in the Marketing Measurement Landscape

Forrester recognizes Marketbridge among notable vendors in “The Marketing Measurement and Optimization Services Landscape, Q3 2025

The report provides an overview of notable vendors in the optimization and measurement space and helps marketing professionals:

  • Understand the value of marketing measurement and optimization service providers
  • Learn how providers differ across focus areas
  • Investigate options based on size, market focus, and business scenarios

Why Marketbridge was recognized

Marketbridge is named among “notable providers.” For the report, Marketbridge selected three extended business scenarios that it focuses on:

  • Attribution modeling
  • Data quality diagnostics
  • Owned/earned media measurement

Why this report matters to marketing professionals

Marketing professionals can use this report to:

  • Learn the 14 essential capabilities for core and extended business scenarios
  • Select the business scenarios most relevant to their strategy
  • Choose the capabilities that matter most for their technology evaluation and provider selection criteria

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Beyond the CDP: Building a composable go-to-market data stack

Beyond the CDP: Building a composable go-to-market data stack

Why top marketers are ditching the CDP for something better

Marketers sought a 360-degree view of the customer for years. CDPs promised a solution, but delivered a narrow lens, focused on audience activation, not insight, measurement, or strategic growth. As the pressure to use AI grows and budgets tighten, CMOs are realizing: software-based CDPs aren’t built to handle the real complexity of today’s marketing.

This paper introduces a new approach—the Go-to-Market Data Lake (GTMDL)—a flexible, scientific, and scalable architecture that places modern cloud data infrastructure at the center of sales and marketing. Unlike closed software platforms, the GTMDL is designed for how your business runs—enabling measurement, modeling, AI, and omnichannel activation with full transparency and control.

In this paper we cover:

  • Why CDPs failed to deliver: How the promise of one-size-fits-all software missed the mark for real marketers

  • The rise of data strategy as a marketing imperative: Why CMOs can no longer leave data to IT

  • What a GTMDL unlocks (use cases): From better sequencing of campaigns to full-funnel measurement and AI-powered decision-making

  • Designing for business value: How use-case-first development avoids long-running IT projects that are aligned to technical milestones instead of business outcomes

  • Laying the AI foundation: Why having clean, granular, and governed data is the key to leveraging current and future AI

Download the paper to rethink your data foundation and lead the next era of AI-ready, insight-driven marketing.

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Benchmarks to blueprint: How financial services marketers can elevate marketing execution

Benchmarks to blueprint: How financial services marketers can elevate marketing execution

Can modern marketing thrive under tighter budgets and higher expectations?

In a time of budget scrutiny and operational strain, marketing leaders are facing a new challenge: deliver more measurable results with fewer resources. In financial services and beyond, marketing spend is declining as a percent of revenue—yet digital performance channels are still growing. The message is clear: every dollar must count, and every tactic must be accountable.

This whitepaper explores how high-performing marketing teams are shifting from reactive cost-cutting to proactive performance building—using data, automation, and strategic alignment to drive real results.

In this paper we cover:

  • Why spend is shifting, not disappearing: Understand how high-performing marketing teams reallocate budgets toward measurable, digital channels.
  • A blueprint for better execution: Practical steps to close the gap between strategy and delivery.
  • The role of AI and automation: How elite teams gain speed and scale without sacrificing control.
  • Real-world results: See how one team saved millions by rethinking how work gets done—from reducing ad hoc demand to fixing creative resource strain.

Access the paper to rethink how your marketing engine performs under pressure.

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A new golden age for employee benefits

A new golden age for employee benefits

Will group go-to-market finally enter the modern era?

The $1.5 trillion employee benefits market is entering a new era. Historically defined by complexity, manual processes, and stagnant innovation, the ecosystem is now on the verge of transformation. Data accessibility is improving, digital-native leaders are stepping up, and AI has finally reached a level of maturity that can untangle administrative and go-to-market challenges.

But this shift won’t happen automatically. To win in this new golden age, carriers, financial product companies, and brokers must reimagine how they market, sell, and deliver benefits — breaking down silos, elevating brand trust, and using technology with intention. This paper explores how leaders can seize this once-in-a-decade opportunity and modernize for growth.

In this paper we cover:

  • The forces reshaping the benefits market: Why deeper digital integration, AI, and new leadership mindsets are creating real momentum.
  • Making go-to-market technical and analytical: Why tomorrow’s marketers must blend analysis, data expertise, and systems thinking to thrive in a complex, regulated space.
  • Breaking through the noise with brand trust: How carriers and brokers can differentiate beyond price and product.
  • Using AI with intention: How leaders can drive efficiency without sacrificing clarity, empathy, or compliance.
  • Removing friction across channels: Why streamlining complex, multi-layered distribution models will improve agility and reduce costs.

Access the paper for five bold moves benefits leaders must make to shape the next decade.

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Measuring marketing’s effectiveness

Measuring marketing’s effectiveness

measuring marketing's effectiveness second edition

Imperatives and methods for CMOs and analytics teams in driving measurable marketing ROI

Only 23% of marketers are confident in their ability to measure full-funnel KPIs—a striking reality in an environment where precision and accountability are paramount. This gap highlights a pressing need for measuring marketing’s effectiveness: the ability to rigorously evaluate, optimize, and prove the impact of marketing activities across the entire funnel, from awareness to conversion. Far from a single metric or tool, marketing effectiveness is a strategic discipline that combines data-driven insights with practical frameworks to align marketing investments with measurable business outcomes.

The 2nd edition of our ultimate resource on measuring marketing’s effectiveness dives deeper into in-market testing and advanced measurement techniques. This paper equips marketing leaders with the tools to truly answer “what’s working and what’s not” to prove marketing’s profitability.

This paper covers:

  • The marketing effectiveness imperative: Overreliance on performance media can lead to shrinking brand equity, but CMOs and CFOs need faster insights across the funnel
  • The evolution of marketing measurement: From the early days of advertising and direct marketing to modern, advanced analytics.
  • Key struggles for CMOs measuring ROI: Upper-funnel brand measurement, post-cookie challenges, and the impact of earned media.
  • Four jobs-to-be-done by marketing analytics teams: What, why, who, and how to optimize efforts
  • Tools and methodologies: Testing, Martech, attribution, and measurement frameworks

Download the paper to master marketing effectiveness and drive measurable, lasting impact.

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5 areas where CMOs struggle in measuring ROI and where to focus

5 areas where CMOs struggle in measuring ROI and where to focus

Driving measurable ROI over the next decade

Despite a progression of technology, methods, and practices, this complex landscape makes marketing effectiveness success hard to navigate. So, how do marketing and analytics teams truly answer “what’s really working & what’s not?” We cover the five key challenges—and where to focus—for CMOs tasked with driving measurable ROI over the next decade. 

Five common challenges in measuring marketing return on investment:

  1. Measuring return on upper-funnel brand investments
  2. Navigating the post-cookie world
  3. Earned and owned marketing
  4. Engaging buyers in a crowded media landscape
  5. Thinking beyond a “one-size-fits-all” measurement solution

Download the whitepaper for a detailed look at these five key challenges and forward-thinking resolutions.

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The next decade of Medicare Advantage: 2025 and beyond

The next decade of Medicare Advantage: 2025 and beyond

Medicare Advantage leaders must pivot to win in an era of stagnation and fierce competition

After years of steady growth, Medicare Advantage faces new headwinds. Carriers are struggling with rising acquisition costs, reduced member lifetime values, and increased complexity in delivering member services and refining go-to-market strategies. This paper examines the market forces behind these changes and provides actionable strategies for leaders to thrive by balancing financial discipline with data-driven agility. 

This paper covers:

The five forces transforming Medicare Advantage: Rising costs, fewer age-ins, declining member lifetime values, stagnant innovation, and changing go-to-market dynamics.

  • Declining member lifetime value (MLV): Driven by shrinking member tenure, stagnant CMS payments, and rising costs—together threatening profitability.
  • Communication overload: Overwhelming member communications—from ANOCs to EOBs—lead to poor engagement and diminishing member trust.
  • Digital transformation opportunities: Simplified and digitally assisted application processes can reduce switching and improve member retention.
  • The aggregator impact: A media buying frenzy driven by aggregators has created confusion, high acquisition costs, and lower-quality members.
  • Data-driven decision-making: Advanced analytics and democratized data quality empower carriers to make smarter decisions, while profitability-based audience targeting ensures channels are aligned to acquire and retain higher-quality members.

Download the paper now to learn how the next decade will reward Medicare Advantage leaders who embrace agility, analytics, and a member-first approach.

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Enabling marketing innovation in highly regulated industries

Enabling marketing innovation in highly regulated industries

enabling marketing innovation

Ideate, develop, test, and analyze significant marketing concepts

Within any large enterprise, there are challenges with constrained budgets, implausible timelines, capacity issues, and misaligned priorities. Marketers in highly regulated industries, like financial services, face additional hurdles due to strict regulatory requirements. Operating under conservative guidance from internal legal and compliance teams, it is often easier to negotiate strategically placed “may’s” than rocking the boat with something new and different. But this safe, historical approach does not easily facilitate experimentation with new ideas that can help accomplish more ambitious growth goals.

This whitepaper explores the concept of an Innovation Lab, a dedicated platform where new, potentially significant marketing concepts and approaches are ideated and evaluated—then quickly developed, tested, analyzed, and quantified for expansion at scale (or killed).

Download now to learn how you can create a lab that facilitates out-of-the-box ideation, and rapid test-and-learn cycles to evolve your company’s portfolio of strategies and advance your marketing maturity.

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Accelerate growth through test-and-learn marketing culture

Accelerate growth through test-and-learn marketing culture

Build a data-driven, full-funnel marketing approach

In the face of shrinking budgets and heightened internal pressure, marketing leaders are tasked with doing more with less. This 20-page whitepaper explores these challenges and provides steps to an efficient, measurable, and scalable marketing approach. What’s inside:
  • Budget realities: Marketing spend fell from 9.1% to 7.7% of revenue—leaders must do more with less.
  • Optimizing the funnel: Balance immediate demand capture with long-term brand investment.
  • Measurement and testing: Build a framework to assess and improve cross-channel performance.
  • Key testing levers: Focus on audience, product, channel, and creative for impactful results.
  • Scaling success: Apply insights to speed time to market and maximize ROI.
  • Preview and future access to part two: Learn how to design analytically sound tests to guide future growth strategies.

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A year-in-review: Marketing effectiveness trends

A year-in-review: Marketing effectiveness trends

2023 Observations and predictions for 2024

2023 was another fast-paced year when it came to marketing measurement. The marketing technology landscape changed quickly, with privacy concerns continuing to make identity resolution challenging. The media landscape moved further away from mass and broadcast and towards social. Affiliates—the digital advertising companies designed to intercept lower-funnel demand—grew, while at the same time, cracks appeared in their business model. Finally, new models and methods for statistical inference across testing and econometric modeling entered the scene, making modeling easier and more powerful.

Download the whitepaper for an 11-page summary of marketing effectiveness trends from 2023 and predictions for 2024.

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