B2B martech vendor Integrate has added social media marketing to its existing stable of digital, event, and content syndication tools. Social marketing features include loading target lists to LinkedIn, full-service LinkedIn ad campaign creation, integration with LinkedIn lead generation forms, and enhancement of leads with external data.   The company also expanded its cross-channel analytics capabilities.

We knew that product-led marketing, such as freemium and free trials, is increasingly popular.  But we hadn’t realized that two-thirds of businesses already offer some sort of free trial – including nearly as many B2B (64%) as B2C (69%).  That’s according to Recurly, whose study also provides lots of other information on conversions, subscription plans, churn rates, payment methods, and more.

Media mix models (MMM), originally developed in the 1960’s, have undergone a resurgence as new technologies make them easier to execute and click-based attribution becomes less credible. But evaluating MMM brings its own challenges. Australia-based Mutinex offers a vendor-neutral Open Source MMM Validation Framework which is now available for free to North American marketers and agencies.