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Vanity metrics: why organic traffic matters

Vanity metrics: why organic traffic matters

Vanity metrics is a term used for metrics that look good on the surface but don’t help you understand your performance or give any meaningful business results. This article focuses on organic traffic and assesses its role in measuring content marketing performance. Skip ahead >> What are vanity metrics Common examples of vanity metrics in ...

9-MINUTE READ | By Johannes Rastas

If you’re running marketing campaigns on multiple platforms—Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.—you need marketing data integration. Marketing data integration is the process of combining marketing data from different sources to create a unified and consistent view. Being able to assemble separate marketing pieces gives you visibility into your overall performance and how marketing contributes to business ...

14-MINUTE READ | By Joy Huynh

Digital audio advertising 101—how, why, and when to get started with Spotify Ads [free template included]

As a digital marketer, you’re familiar with many advertising channels, like social media, search, online video, TV, or radio. But you may still be a bit unfamiliar with digital audio advertising. Marketers have found themselves asking questions like what digital audio advertising is, why should I run audio ads, or how do I create an ...

15-MINUTE READ | By Fanny Heimonen

Why data ethics in marketing is important and what to do about it

Considering the marketing timeline, data ethics is still a relatively new concept. Broadly speaking, marketing data ethics refers to the ethical considerations that need to be taken into account when collecting, using, and sharing data. This can include everything from ensuring that data is collected fairly and responsibly to protecting people’s privacy to being transparent ...

10-MINUTE READ | By Stéphane Hamel

The ultimate guide to marketing data analytics

Log in to your Google Analytics dashboard, and you’ll see hundreds of metrics across a variety of reports. Slice and dice that data, viewing website information depending on the visitor’s referral source, device, operating system… Feeling overwhelmed? The even more worrying news is that Google Analytics is just one source. With thousands of marketing platforms, ...

12-MINUTE READ | By Elise Dopson

Supermetrics vs.: Why data access models matter

My rudimentary knowledge of SEO tells me that you’re probably somewhere in the middle of our marketing funnel and are comparing alternatives to Supermetrics. Otherwise, why would you be reading this? If you’ve made it this far into the evaluation process, it’s time you learn about our philosophy for how we approach data at Supermetrics. ...

10-MINUTE READ | By Evan Kaeding

The marketing industry has a data problem. How can you fix it?

There’s never been so much data available. According to Forbes, almost all of the world’s data was created in the past few years. Now that you have all that data, do you know what to do with it? And can it be done ethically, reliably, and efficiently? Absolutely it can, but before looking at how ...

7-MINUTE READ | By Sophie Michaud

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