Marketing Technology - by Ediz Edip Akçay

About the Book

Learn how to utilize emerging technologies and innovations to enhance marketing strategies and tactics with this textbook for upper-level studies.

Book Synopsis

Marketing Technology is the textbook for understanding technology-driven marketing strategy in a digital-first world.

How can marketers harness emerging technologies to design more engaging, data-led and ethical campaigns? This textbook provides upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students with a comprehensive understanding of how innovation shapes marketing strategy and practice in the modern business environment.

Blending theory, strategic models and applied insights, this textbook explores the technologies transforming marketing from: artificial intelligence and machine learning to blockchain, automation and augmented, virtual and mixed realities. Students will learn how to use data and critical thinking to deliver measurable impact and build customer trust in an era of continuous digital evolution.

Designed for academic alignment, with key terms, key points, exercises, and reflective questions and real-world application, this textbook includes:
- Detailed coverage of the historical connection between technology and marketing, big data, neuromarketing, smart devices for enhanced consumer engagement, Internet of Things (IoT) and their role in contemporary marketing strategy
- Frameworks for optimizing campaign performance through analytics, automation and return on investment measurement
- Ethical perspectives are explored in each chapter highlighting responsible and transparent use of marketing technology
- Online lecturer resources include lecture slides

Whether studying digital marketing, strategic marketing or marketing management, Marketing Technology by Ediz Edip Akçay, equips students with the expertise and confidence to analyse, apply and innovate with the tools shaping the future of marketing.

About the Author

Dr Ediz Edip Akçay is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing and BSc (Hons) Marketing Programme Leader at the Business School, Bournemouth University, UK. He has published work in publications including Journal of Customer Behaviour and Qualitative Market Research, across subject areas of digital advertising, cause-related marketing, user experience in mobile apps and branding.