Freshly blogged: In the Marketing Factory blog, you can find out what motivates us and what we keep ourselves busy with. We provide insights into our daily agency life, share our knowledge and experience, and speak out on controversial topics. en https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/blog.recent.xml Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:51:24 +0100 https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/30-years-of-marketing-factory-founded-when-the-internet-was-still-uncharted-territory/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/30-years-of-marketing-factory-founded-when-the-internet-was-still-uncharted-territory/#commentsWed, 04 Feb 2026 13:36:12 +0100Christoph Allefeldhttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/30-years-of-marketing-factory-founded-when-the-internet-was-still-uncharted-territory/The Marketing Factory was founded on February 1, 1996 in a factory loft in Düsseldorf and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/how-we-automate-container-updates-on-mittwald/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/how-we-automate-container-updates-on-mittwald/#commentsFri, 16 Jan 2026 12:49:24 +0100Ingo Schmitthttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/how-we-automate-container-updates-on-mittwald/[Translate to English:] Wie wir bei Marketing Factory Container-Updates bei mittwald automatisieren: Praktische Lösung mit mittwald CLI und Cron-Jobs für mehrere Projekte. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/hybrid-project-management-in-real-life/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/hybrid-project-management-in-real-life/#commentsTue, 13 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100Sebastian Kleinhttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/hybrid-project-management-in-real-life/Waterfall? Agile? Using a hybrid project management model, we upgraded a TYPO3 project from v9 to v13, updated the design, and were able to react promptly to new requirements during the course of the project. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/intelligent-spam-protection-for-typo3-forms-without-captcha-ai-based-solution-with-n8n/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/intelligent-spam-protection-for-typo3-forms-without-captcha-ai-based-solution-with-n8n/#commentsTue, 16 Dec 2025 12:18:08 +0100Christian Spoohttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/intelligent-spam-protection-for-typo3-forms-without-captcha-ai-based-solution-with-n8n/Intelligent spam protection for TYPO3 forms: AI-based solution with n8n replaces CAPTCHA. GDPR-compliant, user-friendly, and highly effective against bots. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/planning-and-performing-automatic-translations-in-typo3-with-deepl/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/planning-and-performing-automatic-translations-in-typo3-with-deepl/#commentsThu, 13 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100Sebastian Kleinhttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/planning-and-performing-automatic-translations-in-typo3-with-deepl/Translating pages and content at the touch of a button? That's possible. We'll show you what you need to consider in advance and during the process. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/using-our-typo3-extension-ai-filemetadata-with-mittwalds-ai-hosting/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/using-our-typo3-extension-ai-filemetadata-with-mittwalds-ai-hosting/#commentsThu, 23 Oct 2025 15:28:36 +0200Ingo Schmitthttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/using-our-typo3-extension-ai-filemetadata-with-mittwalds-ai-hosting/Learn how to configure and use the TYPO3 extension ai_filemetadata with Mittwald’s AI Hosting for automated alt-text generation using open-source LLM models — including setup, configuration, benchmarking, and results comparison. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/check-the-container-solr-is-moving/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/check-the-container-solr-is-moving/#commentsFri, 10 Oct 2025 12:59:57 +0200Christian Spoohttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/check-the-container-solr-is-moving/The Apache Solr search server is moving to containers: Learn how we efficiently operate Solr with TYPO3 and Mittwald Cloud using Docker and Terraform. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/were-moving-new-address-effective-july-1-2025/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/were-moving-new-address-effective-july-1-2025/#commentsWed, 04 Jun 2025 08:29:08 +0200Christoph Allefeldhttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/were-moving-new-address-effective-july-1-2025/Marketing Factory Digital GmbH will be moving! Effective July 1, 2025, we will be relocating our headquarters. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/aws-cloudfront-log-analysis-in-matomo/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/aws-cloudfront-log-analysis-in-matomo/#commentsWed, 14 May 2025 17:10:22 +0200Ingo Schmitthttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/aws-cloudfront-log-analysis-in-matomo/How we analyse AWS CloudFront logs in Matomo without client-side tracking – including a script to process S3-based logs. A practical approach to privacy-friendly web analytics. https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/were-retiring-beuser-iprange/https://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/were-retiring-beuser-iprange/#commentsTue, 15 Apr 2025 16:27:56 +0200Ingo Schmitthttps://www.marketing-factory.com/blog/were-retiring-beuser-iprange/Many years ago, we created our TYPO3 extension beuser_iprange to enhance backend security by allowing logins only from specific IP addresses. Back in 2008, this was a technically solid idea — but today, it's simply no longer state of the art. To be honest, we haven’t used the extension ourselves in quite some time. So, we've decided to discontinue its development.