Median salaries for marketers are around $100K with marketing operations doing slightly better at $130K; promotions continue to arrive fast, according to a survey of over 300 marketers by publisher MarTech. The bad news: Layoffs are up too. Women marketers below Director+ level sees salaries lagging behind male peers, but C-suite women salaries are slightly higher.
Google’s Search Generative Experience creates more opportunities for third-party sites and even competitors to rank for a brand’s own brand and product terms, based on research into almost 3,000 key words and 251 brands by SEO software vendor Authoritas. Over 90% of keyword searches generated SGE content. Sites like Wikipedia and even Quora ranked high in results.
The European Union has announced new probes into major tech companies investigating non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act. The investigations raise questions about Google self-preferencing in search results, anti-competitive practices related to Google Play and the Apple App Store and Meta’s “pay or consent” model. Penalties can reflect up to 10% of global turnover.
Salesforce has announced a new solution, Unified Knowledge, that will pull data from third-party systems thus supplementing Salesforce Data Cloud with external information sources. Initially, this is mainly aimed at helping Service Cloud users in combination with Einstein for Service’s generative AI. It was developed through a strategic partnership with AI vendor Zoomin.