
Why brand marketers often win the battle but lose the war
“We officially launched our self serve AI for DBM TrueView a couple weeks ago . . . All of our clients are currently seeing a 50-70%...

Bounce rate: Important metric or junk data?
But it’s critical that marketing and analytics professionals start to examine one of the last vestiges of old-school analytics: reporting...

CMO audit series, Part 6: Analytics
Over the last few years, analytics has grown in sophistication in a lot of ways. On the customer side, it’s changing in terms of how much...

5 best practices for transforming the customer journey through analytics
data-driven age, marketers can no longer afford to be analytics-agnostic. Without analytical sensibility, data-driven insights are hard...

State of the art methods for measuring mobile and digital marketing
As someone who’s grown up in the world of digital marketing, I’ve kept my eye on the evolution of mobile and digital metrics and how they...

How to avoid the “Agency Measurement Paradox” and win client confidence
The ongoing drumbeat to prove ROI has led many agencies to start using attribution models to measure digital, but the outputs from...

A Google Attribution (and Attribution 360) readiness checklist
To help address this challenge, we turn to attribution tools and technologies, which leverage vast data sets and methodologies that allow...

Throw a party with your advertising data
In this article, we’ll compare advertising audiences to the different groups of people you could invite and show you how to use this...

The age of analytics democratization
For the greater part of the modern era, data in organizations has only been readily available to two privileged groups: executives who...

How to bridge the gap between brand and direct response marketing
The metrics used to measure these initiatives reflect this disparity. Brand marketers focus on sentiment, engagement, interaction, equity...

Voice is an important new channel for brands to measure, but not in a silo
The numbers are encouraging: Since last year, online sales of Amazon’s Echo devices and Google Home have grown 39 percent. At the same...

Lead scoring: A bridge from marketing to actual sales
These days, customer journeys look less like a yellow brick road and more like an endless maze with numerous possibilities. Different...

Identifying top analytics talent in a competitive environment
digital marketing analytics field is finding quality talent. Much of what we do day-to-day still isn’t taught in universities. Standards...

An intervention on marketing’s dysfunctional relationship with data
In short, when it comes to data, many of us feel like we’re in a dysfunctional relationship, and it’s time for a little couples...

A deep dive into online-to-in-store attribution
according to eMarketer. Keep in mind that this figure only includes multichannel attribution for digital initiatives. Marketers are also...

Five indicators of whether you’re doing everything you should with your business’s data
Your boss or colleague has gone on another one of those industry conference trips. You know the scenario: she heads off on a plane and...

What’s in a name? MMM, multi-touch attribution and cross-channel attribution compared
Even in my small corner of the world, attribution, the language used to describe methodologies and technologies is often murky....

Two social media attribution models to use instead of single-touch
Have you been looking for the best way to measure the effectiveness of each of your social media channels? Do you want to learn how you...

People-based measurement is the new black
Ad tech and CRM (customer relationship management) used to run in very different circles. Think of ad tech — performance marketing...
























