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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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7 Retail Trends to Fall in Love With
Retailers are ready to make the most of limited in-store options and online shopping this year. And while the pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated the dramatic transformation of the consumer retail market, the trends that have been driving this transformation have actually been around for years. -
Data as a Disruptor: How to Effectively Advertise When Third-Party Cookies Crumble
Data: something digital marketers cling to and that’s universally relied on to make decisions. A silver lining of 2020 is that access to data has allowed marketers to make quick and informed decisions with each twist and turn. -
Super Bowl Can Drive Performance: These Brands Made the Most of their Budgets This Year
The Super Bowl can be a huge performance-driver, which begs the question why would anyone invest the big marketing spend if it’s not going to go all the way to the end zone? -
Why Marketers Must Remain Flexible in Their Measurement Techniques Within the New Normal
To effectively validate and enhance ROI, marketers must assess real actions rather than relying purely on basic metrics, such as click-through rates (CTRs). Achieving this will mean ensuring analysis produces robust and reliable insight by standardization, holistic and adding agility to their measurement approach. -
Repairing Consumer Trust is the Only Way Forward
Strong relationships are built on trust. That’s true between your friends, it’s true between your neighbors, and it’s true in your businesses. It’s also true when we talk about the relationship between buyer and seller, who often come together as strangers. -
The Return to New Normal for eCommerce
It’s no surprise that last year we saw a spike in pandemic-related products, such as hand sanitizer and face masks, with the majority of top 10 product searches being related to these protective items and panic buying peaking in July of 2020. -
Aligning Subscriptions and Advertising in a World Driven by First-Party Data
The publishing industry is undergoing yet another period of dramatic upheaval as new policy shifts among the tech giants further limit the ability of publishers to target ads using third-party data or identifiers. -
How SEM Produces Incremental Revenue for B2B Marketers
The B2B customer journey is a long and complex one. Often a conversion is preceded by emails, catalog views, searches and site visits, before the first phone call or meeting. -
The Key to Unlocking Hidden Treasures in your CRM
Customer relationship management systems (CRMs) are great for collecting and organizing data. But, what are we doing with all this data? -
3 Marketing Concepts Sales Should Apply in 2021
2021 is a new landscape for sales and marketing, and each team has a lot to learn from the other. -
Publishers Are Taking a Bite of the $161 Billion Local Ad Market
Google and Facebook may have prioritized advertising tools for small businesses, but there’s no reason why other publishers can’t prove their worth to this vast set of buyers. -
Welcome to the Consent Economy: Programmatic in the Post-Cookie World
First, it was the cookie. Then the IDFA. Both Google and Apple are, in their typically outsized manner, accelerating industry trends.
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