
Diving into the new SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall
I’ve been a fan and an avid collaborator with SiriusDecisions since around the time when Rich Eldh and John Neeson gave birth to the...

How to track conversions like a pro
How do you know if what you are doing is actually working? Sure, traffic may be going up, but what about after that? Are your new...

Demand generation’s next frontier: 3 ways to tap into social to get more leads
I can’t be the only CMO focusing on and prioritizing the measurement of the real bottom line of all marketing team activities: demand...

E-commerce CPMs, Facebook Dynamic Ad usage set to rise this Memorial Day
Black Friday weekend, back-to-school, Valentine’s Day — these are what most people think about when it comes to critical times for...

Getting ahead of the game with predictive analytics
Whether you build a team in-house or opt to work with a partner, good analytical talent is hard to come by, so putting together that...

The effect of Moore’s Law on behavioral marketing
Big e-commerce sites had access to sophisticated analytics packages costing thousands of dollars a month. Not me. I was spending about a...

GDPR: Publishers and martech will rely on each other
By now, everyone’s calendar should have a big red circle around the date of May 25, 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation...

If you want to deliver relevant ads, you’ve got to get better at using data
Programmatic has created the opportunity for truly data-driven marketing. Yet still, 50 percent of all marketing is irrelevant to the...

Facebook Marketplace update: 8% more spend is being pushed to Audience Network
officially adopted header bidding in March, and it has tweaked some of its stances on transparency to better court brand-oriented...

Video ads for direct response: What’s the best length?
there’s no magic formula to creating the “best” video ad, direct response-focused advertisers are inherently test-oriented, and they will...

Self-serve analytics: Dream or reality?
deployment of analytics on your sites and apps is certainly a lot of work in and of itself. Over the years, the vast majority of the...

4 advanced targeting strategies for B2B marketers
The digital world gets noisier every day. That’s why it’s becoming more and more important in B2B marketing that we truly understand the...

UTM tags + Facebook ads = awesome
Last-click attribution marketers cringe when they think of Facebook Ads Manager’s reporting. The closest you can get to last-click...

Are you leveraging these underutilized Google Analytics features?
IB Photography / Shutterstock.com If you’re a digital marketer these days, odds are extremely good that web analytics is a major part of...

Devices don’t buy products; people do
seven different devices, and the average person within that household uses about half of them. As a marketer, you want to have...

How audience profiling, based on real-time online customer interactions, reveals the faces in the cr
Getting to know customers and prospects on a personal level is the only way marketers can truly understand what will be relevant to them,...

The tracking trap in digital marketing
In Google’s early days — when online marketing was still a novelty avoided by most large advertisers — then-CEO Eric Schmidt acerbically...

Cheap data: You are about to get so much better at marketing
In 2012, my agency, Conversion Sciences, completed an eye-tracking study of video. To complete that study, we sought 25 random...

Digital analytics industry veteran roundup: What’s in store for 2017
Last year at this time, an impressive group of data and analytics industry specialists answered a single question in preparation for the...
























