Rudder Lookout: Behind the Build with Humans of Martech and PrizePicks

Details

2026-12-11 1:00 PM ET

60 minutes

Speakers

Meghan Hilton

Meghan Hilton

Lifecycle Marketing, PrizePicks

Darrell Alfonso

Darrell Alfonso

Co-host, Humans of Martech

Phil Gamache

Phil Gamache

Founder, Humans of Martech

Dominic Benton

Dominic Benton

Principal Product Manager, RudderStack

Webinar Details

Every lifecycle marketer knows the loop. You have a campaign goal and a hunch about who to target, and the answer is already in the warehouse. So you file a ticket, go a few rounds with an analyst, then export a spreadsheet and upload it to Meta, Google and Braze one tool at a time. Weeks later, the campaign goes live on a list that’s already stale, and the riskier ideas never get tested at all.

Rudder Lookout makes a different model possible: a marketer starts with a goal, surfaces segments worth targeting, and turns that analysis into an audience that syncs everywhere and stays current, all built on the definitions the data team already maintains. Phil Gamache and Darrell Alfonso, hosts of Humans of Martech, talk with Meghan Hilton, Lifecycle Marketing & RevOps at PrizePicks, and Dom Benton from RudderStack about what this shift looks like in practice.

We'll also cover:

  • What the ticket-and-wait cycle really costs, from slower launches to the campaigns that never run
  • Where each workaround breaks, and why building the audience was never the hard part
  • How the work splits between marketers, ops and the data team when audiences become self-serve
  • Why context matters: dbt models, Snowflake and Databricks semantic layers, plus the marketing knowledge that never makes it into a table
  • Why activation is where audiences live or die, from consistent definitions across channels to suppression lists that don’t go stale
  • How PrizePicks is approaching this today