{"id":10538,"date":"2025-11-05T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:44:19","slug":"what-comes-after-data-driven-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=10538","title":{"rendered":"What comes after \u2018data-driven marketing?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NG-landscape-cover-800x450.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Neej Gore, CDO at Zeta Global, on Conversations with MarTech.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>For the past several years, \u201cdata-driven\u201d and \u201cmarketing\u201d have gone together like milk and cookies. You might even describe yourself as a \u201cdata-driven\u201d marketer in your LinkedIn profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But have you thought about what comes next?<\/p>\n<p>Neej Gore, chief data officer at Zeta Global, says advances in AI and predictive capabilities might soon mean data-driven is looking backwards, which is exactly the opposite of what everyone was hoping to accomplish with being data-driven in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I sat down with Neej at Zeta Live!, the company\u2019s annual event in New York City, to talk about what comes after data-driven marketing, why systems might overtake stacks and the importance of context moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Neej also shares the one word he would use to describe the future of marketing, and it\u2019s probably going to surprise you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode guide<\/h3>\n<p><strong>0:38: <\/strong>Meet Neej Gore<br \/><strong>1:51: <\/strong>From data-driven to answers-driven<br \/><strong>3:10:<\/strong> Why context matters to data and AI<br \/><strong>5:00: <\/strong>Marketing as a system, not a stack<br \/><strong>6:14:<\/strong> The urgency around data governance<br \/><strong>7:45:<\/strong> One word to describe the future of marketing<\/p>\n<p><!--\nPaste this into a WordPress \"Custom HTML\" block.\n--><\/p>\n<section class=\"cwt-follow-box\" aria-labelledby=\"cwt-follow-heading\">\n<h2>Follow Conversations with MarTech on:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cwt-row\">\n    <!-- Conversations with MarTech logo --><br \/>\n    <a class=\"cwt-brand\" href=\"https:\/\/martech.org\/topic\/conversations-with-martech\/\" aria-label=\"Conversations with MarTech home\" title=\"MarTech.org\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1023BF8E-41B2-45E8-8701-19F74F955D89.png\" alt=\"Conversations with MarTech\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<p>    <!-- Platform icons\/links --><\/p>\n<nav class=\"cwt-platforms\" aria-label=\"Podcast 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You might even describe yourself as a \u201cdata-driven\u201d marketer in your LinkedIn profile.\u00a0 But have you thought about what comes next? Neej Gore, chief data officer at Zeta Global, says advances in AI and predictive capabilities might soon mean data-driven &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=10538\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What comes after \u2018data-driven marketing?\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"medium":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"large":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"inspiro-featured-image":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"inspiro-loop":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"inspiro-loop@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-masonry":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-masonry@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait@2x":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":["https:\/\/martech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tbo5wmchnm.jpg",0,0,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}