
Lina Tonk
Three-time SaaS CMO, currently Chief Marketing Officer at Smartling (AI-powered translation platform), previously CMO at Recurly and isolved.
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Sep 1, 2026
Why translating your content is not the same as localizing it
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4:51BenHOST
But what does it really mean to have localized content in your opinion?

Lina TonkGUEST
Actually, when I started looking at Smartling, it came about because I was looking into global expansion.

Lina TonkGUEST
So, and when we think about Not all CMOs, not that I, you know, I'm in a bunch of CMO groups and I've been testing a lot of our localization content and our understanding of CMOs of localization.

Lina TonkGUEST
And I realized that is very rare when we actually know the right answer on localization, not that there's a right or wrong answer.

Lina TonkGUEST
So I think the simplest way, before we get deep into it, the simplest way that I explain to people is translation is getting the words right.

Lina TonkGUEST
So you just literally translate it from one language to another language, where localization is where you make the culture fit.
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13:34BenHOST
I'm already excited for it.