#76: Targeting B2B buyers like B2C consumers with Mark Connon, Bombora

#76: Targeting B2B buyers like B2C consumers with Mark Connon, Bombora

Author: The Agile Brand January 13, 2026 Duration: 19:29

Why is it that B2C marketers can target someone who left a pair of shoes in their cart and follow them around the internet for a week, but that same level of precision just hasn't been the same for B2B?

Agility requires closing the gap between insight and action. It's not enough to know who your audience is; you need the capability to reach them precisely, wherever they are, at the moment it matters most.

Today, we're going to talk about why B2B advertising has historically lagged behind its B2C counterpart in audience targeting and activation. We'll explore the challenges of working with fragmented data and the new opportunities that are emerging to create highly precise, actionable audiences by combining different data sources in a new way.

To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, Mark Connon, CEO at Bombora.

 
About Mark Connon
 
Mark Connon was Chief Operating Officer at TapAd when Experian acquired that company in 2020 — becoming TapAd's General Manager and EVP of Product and Marketing for Experian Marketing Services. As the former SVP, Global Chief Mobile and Data Officer at AOL (a subsidiary of Verizon formerly known as Verizon Media Services), Connon led mobile advertising and data strategy, as well as enterprise-wide data commercialization. He has held a number of C-level positions at both public and private marketing and advertising companies and currently serves as an advisor or board member for several companies in the ad/martech space.
 
Mark Connon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markconnon/
 
Resources 
 
Bombora: https://bombora.com/

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