Making Sense of Martech

Making Sense of Martech

Juan Mendoza + Jacqueline Freedman

Episodes 97
Avg. Duration 51m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since Feb 2021
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Unfiltered takes on the biggest shifts in marketing technology. We spotlight what matters, who's leading (or lagging), and what's next. In Martech, clarity is power — and we're here to deliver it.

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Recent Episodes

Cut Your Marketing Budget by 50% with Calm's Jeff Lee

Mar 25, 2026 55m

Jeff Lee doesn't just build marketing campaigns. He engineers lifecycle systems that quietly power billions of customer interactions. As the lifecycle marketing technical lead at Calm, Jeff runs a…

Personalization, Profit & the CFO: Scaling Martech Engines with Eloise Gillespie

Mar 18, 2026 51m

"Personalization is finding that balance — you can give customers everything they want, but it doesn't make the business happy. True personalization is finding the perfect balance." – Eloise …

Integration Complexity, $215B Losses, & Why Your Stack Still Doesn't Talk

Mar 11, 2026 38m Transcript

"If you don't understand your internal customer, you're failing both the internal customer and the business." Jacqueline Jacqueline and Juan tackle Martech's second-biggest pain point: integration…

Consulting Dependency Isn't a Bug - It's the Business Model with Satya Upadhyaya

Mar 04, 2026 1h 2m Transcript

"Martech isn't complex - we've made it complex." - Satya In this episode, Jacqueline sits down with Satya Upadhyaya to unpack one of enterprise Martech's most expensive problems: the forever…

Beyond Just Do It with Linda Cereda

Feb 25, 2026 54m

"At Nike, we learned the hard way — tech wasn't the constraint. The operating model was." – Linda Martech leaders love to talk about AI in marketing, next-best-action, personalization at scale, and…

Beyond Just Do It with Linda Cereda

Feb 18, 2026 19m

"At Nike, we learned the hard way — tech wasn't the constraint. The operating model was." – Linda Martech leaders love to talk about AI in marketing, next-best-action, personalization at scale, and…

Dirty Data, AI Everywhere, & ROI Nowhere

Feb 11, 2026 52m Transcript

In this Office Hours episode, Jacqueline and Juan unpack why marketing technology feels simultaneously stable and deeply uncertain. Q4 earnings show revenue holding steady, yet the market is…

Confessions of an Email Provocateur with Dela Quist

Feb 04, 2026 1h 40m Transcript

Why impressions — not clicks — reveal email's real power, and who's quietly profiting from your inbox. Email is still treated like a messaging channel, and that mistake is quietly destroying value.…

Pilots to Proof: AI Agents in the Enterprise with Keanu Taylor

Jan 28, 2026 34m

Pilots to Proof: AI Agents in the Enterprise with Keanu Taylor AI agents are being positioned as the answer to shrinking budgets and rising expectations, but most enterprise teams are still stuck in…

Sweet, Suite Relief with Adam Greco

Jan 21, 2026 59m Transcript

"Suite Fatigue is the moment you realize you're paying more every year for less flexibility and less value." — Adam Marketing was supposed to get simpler. Instead, it got more expensive, harder to…

The 6 Pain Points Martech Leaders Face

Jan 14, 2026 55m Transcript

"We've seen companies locked into vendors for a decade with no way out." – Juan Jacqueline and Juan kick off 2026 with a quick reality check: stepping away from screens feels great, but the Martech…

Battle of the Bots with Mariska Calabrese, beehiiv & Jakub Alexa, Omnivery

Jan 07, 2026 55m

Email feels free, but the economics are brutal: zero-cost sending makes abuse infinitely scalable. In this episode, Jacqueline sits down with Mariska and Jakub to unpack the "bot layer" that's…

The Renaissance

Dec 31, 2025 8m

Farewell, 2025 — what a year. It marked the revival of Making Sense of Martech, and we owe it all to you and the incredible guests who took a chance on us. Here are a few standout moments. Wishing…

The Blooper Reel

Dec 24, 2025 3m

Merry everything and more. Here's your very own present from us to you! Connect & Subscribe Subscribe to Making Sense of Martech wherever you get your podcasts. Engage with the community on…

2026 Predictions: Agents, AI Decisioning, & The Techstack

Dec 17, 2025 29m Transcript

As 2025 closes out, Juan and Jacqueline team up with Keanu Taylor, The Martech Weekly's Head of Research, to read the tea leaves on what 2026 has in store for marketing technology. Their forecast is…

Make Martech Cool Again: A Conversation with Jason Lyman, Customer.io's CMO

Dec 10, 2025 28m

"Marketing to marketers is the dream job, but it makes everything that much more high stakes." – Jacqueline In this Hot Seat episode, Jacqueline sits down with Jason, CMO at Customer.io, to ask a…

Adobe's Semrush Gamble, BFCM Enters the Upside Down, & AI-Washed Earnings

Dec 03, 2025 50m Transcript

"Adobe didn't just buy an SEO tool – it bought a negotiating position with the AI overlords of discovery." – Juan Jacqueline and Juan unpack what "more human" marketing actually looks like when AI…

Is Your Inbox Insured? Deliverability is The Ultimate Insurance Policy with Matt McFee, CEO of Inbox Monster

Nov 26, 2025 34m Transcript

"If you're not treating deliverability as revenue insurance, you're already losing money." — Matt This Hot Seat episode puts Matt McFee, an email veteran and founder of Inbox Monster, under the…

Privacy by Design & Ethical AI with David Joosten, Cofounder of GrowthLoop

Nov 19, 2025 40m Transcript

"Zero party data reflects what customers say they want; first party data reveals what they actually do." – David In this Hot Seat episode, Jacqueline sits down with David Joosten, co-founder of…

AI's Report Card, The BFCM Machine, & Why Attribution Sucks

Nov 12, 2025 52m Transcript

"92% of enterprises say AI is a priority, and 78% also say they can't integrate it." — Juan In this Office Hours episode, Jacqueline Freedman and Juan Mendoza unpack the biggest Martech realities…

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