25 Most Promising Digital Marketing Solution Providers - 2016

The ideal task of a marketing team in any business is to shepherd a product or service along its journey from assembly until it reaches an end consumer’s hands. The length of this process is packed with a number of meticulous tasks ranging from creating product awareness to brand consideration and sales to conversion. Adding to this is the advent of the newfangled strategies such as inbound marketing and content marketing, where marketers lure prospective customers, right from the confines of their workstations, by mass mailers, publishing whitepapers, and prolific customer testimonials.

To make a marketing team's life easier, several technology providers have invested heavily in infrastructure and trends like mobility, analytics, cloud, and big data to offer industry specific marketing solutions as a service (SaaS). These solutions, combined with ample data sources, place a wealth of insightful information at the decision maker’s disposal. Businesses are perched at an advantageous spot as they can cater to the varying needs of a demographic crowd through capable personalization methodologies like geo-targeting, wearable gadgets like the Apple watch, and augmented reality-aided customer experience enhancement.

In an effort to help marketers address a more sophisticated customer base, a panel of prominent CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts, along with the CIOReview editorial board has assessed scores of marketing solution providers and picked out a list of prime choices.

We have considered the vendor’s ability in designing and building advanced solutions that cater to industry specific needs, at the same time adding to the functional and productive flair of marketing. We present to you CIOReview’s 25 Most Promising Digital Marketing Solution Providers 2016.