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MarTech Interview with Karl Van Buren, Co-Founder & CEO at Audyence

Discover insights on the future of B2B marketing, data privacy, AI-driven personalization, and programmatic media buying in an interview with Karl Van Buren, Co-Founder & CEO of Audyence.
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Karl, as a highly enthusiastic and experienced marketer, could you share with our readers about your career journey and expertise that led you to co-found Audyence and also your role as CEO?
My career journey has always been rooted in a passion for marketing, sales, and business development. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to lead all of these functions and gained extensive experience in identifying market gaps and creating innovative strategies to address customer needs within the B2B Marketing space. I’ve always been entrepreneurial and have long been interested in starting my own business, so co-founding Audyence was a natural next step to bring my ideas to life in an arena I’m passionate about.

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With growing global data privacy regulations, how can B2B marketers ensure compliance while maintaining effective demand creation strategies, and what role will first-party data play in these strategies?
To address growing data privacy regulations, the key lies in two areas 1) prioritizing first-party data and 2) identifying compliant means of acquiring third-party data. Marketers can ensure compliance and accuracy by focusing on data collected directly from customer interactions. First-party data allows us to deliver highly personalized experiences without relying on third-party cookies. It’s also essential to embrace consent-driven data collection practices, be transparent with users, and leverage contextual targeting to maintain trust while achieving marketing goals through third-party partners.

How do you envision B2B companies adapting their lead acquisition strategies by 2025?
B2B companies are adapting their lead acquisition strategies by prioritizing transparency in how they collect and use data while leveraging tools that enhance resource efficiency. As privacy regulations tighten and customers demand greater control over their information, businesses will need to adopt consent-driven data collection practices that build trust and demonstrate value to their audience. In parallel, using AI-powered tools and self-service platforms will streamline lead-generation efforts, enabling marketing teams to allocate resources more effectively. These technologies will help identify high-quality leads, automate repetitive tasks, and may even optimize campaigns in real-time, ensuring that resources are focused where they yield the highest impact.

What are the changes that AI & Machine Learning will bring to revolutionize B2B lead generation and content syndication in the next few years? Tell us a few key challenges that B2B companies will face when implementing AI-driven personalization, and how can they overcome them.
AI and Machine Learning will fundamentally change B2B lead generation by enabling hyper-personalized marketing campaigns and more precise customer segmentation. Content syndication will become smarter, dynamically matching the right content to the right audience. However, challenges like maintaining data quality, integrating AI tools into existing systems and ensuring ethical personalization will need to be addressed.

What do you believe will be the key drivers of the shift towards self-service programmatic platforms in B2B media buying, and how will companies prepare their marketing teams to take advantage of self-service marketing models?
The shift has been happening for quite some time in most areas of B2B awareness advertising, particularly display media and CTV more recently. We’re now seeing significant interest, particularly amongst Enterprise customers, in leveraging self-service programmatic platforms for their demand generation tactics, like content syndication. This is being driven by the same forces that drove the initial rise of programmatic media: the need for greater transparency, cost efficiency, faster campaign execution, and data centralization. To prepare marketing teams, it’s critical to invest in training them to understand and leverage these platforms effectively. Teams need to be equipped to analyze data, manage campaigns, and make informed decisions. Luckily, some providers take a customer-centric approach and will invest in you as a customer. Audyence certainly takes that approach.

The lines between demand generation and Account-Based Marketing are blurring. What steps can B2B platforms take to seamlessly integrate both approaches and how will unified reporting help marketers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns?
First off, my opinion is that most companies should be doing both and that ABM is merely a subset of the other. I recommend integrating demand generation and ABM by using unified data platforms that provide a holistic view of the customer journey and developing content strategies that serve both broad and targeted audiences. I agree that unified reporting plays a vital role in measuring campaign effectiveness, but to take it one step further, B2B platforms should focus on tightening the space between feedback and optimization. Those who figure out how to offer real-time insights that allow marketers to refine their strategies and make better resource allocation decisions will find great demand for that.

As third-party cookies phase out, how will intent data and contextual targeting change the landscape for B2B demand generation, and what impact will these shifts have on personalization strategies?
Intent data and contextual targeting have long been crucial for understanding audience behavior and delivering relevant messages. That will not change, but the source of those insights will. These shifts will push us to create more personalized content based on customer context rather than relying on historical browsing data. It will also force companies to think more creatively about how they acquire their own compliant first-party data that can be leveraged for personalization strategies.

How will privacy concerns reshape the B2B digital advertising landscape without cookies, and what proactive measures can businesses take to ensure compliance and continue delivering relevant, personalized experiences?
Privacy concerns are reshaping the B2B digital advertising landscape by emphasizing transparency and consent-driven practices. I recommend adopting first-party data collection methods, investing in secure data storage, and educating teams on compliance standards to stay ahead. Leveraging contextual targeting and AI-driven insights will also help us deliver relevant, personalized experiences while respecting user privacy.

The rise of consent-driven marketplaces is on the horizon. How do you envision these platforms reshaping data collection practices, and how can marketers ensure that their campaigns remain compliant while still achieving scalability?
Consent-driven marketplaces will redefine data collection by emphasizing user transparency and consent. To ensure campaigns remain compliant and scalable, I believe it’s critical to build trust by clearly communicating the value of data sharing. Investing in technologies that aggregate compliant data and using AI to optimize campaigns will help maintain scalability while respecting privacy.

Given the predicted shifts in data privacy, AI-driven personalization, and programmatic media buying, what advice would you give to marketers for their 2025 marketing strategies?

My first bit of advice for 2025 is to emphasize transparency, particularly when working with intermediaries. For example, if you’re unaware of where your impressions are being served or where third-party data is initially coming from, your business is taking on undue risk and disadvantage. The compliance risks are obvious, but what may be less obvious are the reasons that certain information is obfuscated from your view by the intermediary in the first place. Most commonly, intermediaries are not transparent about certain bits of information because either, they know they’ll be circumvented if you were able to buy directly from the source without the markup, or they’re hiding something more nefarious like non-compliant GDPR practices. Programmatic solutions remove the need for traditional middlemen and provide you with the transparency you need to make intelligent and safe decisions, greater cost efficiencies, high-velocity planning, and mid-campaign agility. These tools are often equipped with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that can enable creative personalization, advanced analytics, and optimization suggestions. With such powerful technology available, asking your service-based vendors the tough questions is essential.

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Karl Van Buren, Co-Founder & CEO at Audyence

Karl Van Buren, CEO and co-founder of Audyence, has over a decade of executive experience in sales, marketing, and business development for leading companies within the B2B demand generation and media industry, like Madison Logic and Spiceworks Ziff Davis. His recognition of the gross inefficiencies in demand generation inspired him to help B2B marketers reach, engage, and convert their target accounts across multiple channels and platforms. LinkedIn.

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