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The Last-Click Lie: Why Most Marketing Measurement Is Still Fundamentally Broken
Across the industry, CMOs are confronting an uncomfortable truth: the dashboards they’ve relied on for years often provide a distorted picture of what drives growth.
Marketing Mix Modeling Is Back — And This Time It’s Running the Business
When measurement frameworks help answer questions about revenue growth, profitability, and long-term brand equity, marketing becomes easier to defend—and easier to expand.
The New Marketing Currency: Why Data Collaboration Is Replacing Third-Party Tracking
Marketing will remain data-driven, but insights will come from aggregated patterns and trusted collaboration rather than ubiquitous tracking.
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How CPG brands are redefining their approach this holiday season
With people ready to celebrate this holiday season, marketers will need to take just such a data-driven approach to create messaging that resonates and is personally relevant to customers. -
Goodbye Panels, Hello Households. The Future of TV Measurement is Here
TV ads transacted on broad age and gender targets from panel-based ratings as the common currency will soon be in the rearview mirror. The journey is well under way to evolve the measurement currency to meet the needs of marketers and publishers. -
The Value Exchange: How Consumers and Brands Have Built Trust
Most marketers are now considering best practices. While there are sure to be quite a few, they can all be rooted in a clear value exchange — by highlighting how data collection can improve overall experiences for consumers. -
How Publishers Can Get Smarter with Their Reader Prompts
As the reality of a soon-to-be cookieless world sets in for publishers, all eyes are on the need to diversify revenue streams and forge deeper connections with readers through insights gleaned from first-party data. -
How Becoming a Customer-Centric Business Starts with Humanising Data
While it’s probably difficult to imagine in today’s world – where anyone can whip up a business-destroying Twitter storm in seconds – listening to customers hasn’t always been the default. -
Digital Media’s Loss is CTV’s Gain
The past year has not been kind to digital media. From the (now-delayed cookie-apocalypse) to Facebook’s continual political troubles to increased scrutiny on digital privacy, it’s safe to say digital media has not had a good 2021. -
Does Third-party Data Need a Rebrand?
Third-party data, the product, is better than ever. It’s ethically sourced and privacy-compliant and will remain so even after cookies fall away. -
How To Keep The Party Going In A Cookie-Free Future
While we have never completely relied on third-party cookies – by offering Commercial Mix Modelling we don’t need them to measure effectiveness – we are indirectly affected. -
3 Strategies To Bring Your Audience And Advertisers Closer In A Cookie-Less World
The ground is already shifting when it comes to cookies. During this transition period, I thought it might be helpful to share a bit about our approach to cookies (or the lack thereof). -
Publishers, Now Is Not the Time to Kick the Cookie Can Down the Road
The move to a cookieless world isn’t like the dozens of other tech pivots that have kept publishers on their toes in recent years. This isn’t just a bridge to be crossed when publishers come to it. This move is the big one. -
Exploring the Concept of DIY Data and the Future of Data as a Service
Customer behaviors and attitudes are always shifting, and the businesses that are best positioned to understand, reach, and market toward those shifts are the ones that will succeed in scaling revenue. -
Why Post-Cookie Targeting Solutions Can Not Retread Old Ideas
The advertising technology industry has spent most of the past 18 months developing plans and products to fill the white space in targeting that will be exposed when Google finally stops supporting third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.