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Bridging commentary on the art & science of content; content marketing, branded content, native advertising and the analytics, attribution and intelligence that powers it.
Edition #388 What Wall Street thinks will happen this year and what that might mean for marketers. Investment banks like Goldman Sachs release annual outlook reports, to keep their clients informed and to drum up business ????. This years report from Goldman is titled Heavy Fog. I thought I’d take a peek, from the lens of a CMO. What can their POV on the markets, provide as intel for marketers. After all, businesses march to the beat of… Continue reading
How Enterprise pricing works at Nudge. We charge a platform fee, which is based on traffic volume. To estimate, you can use our Pricing calculator at the bottom of our pricing page. Typically you can bundle Enterprise Services once your platform fee exceeds $70k/year or $5.8k/month. Notes on what counts as billable traffic For agencies, if you are placing Nudge on the destination page or piece of content. You want to estimate the total traffic or clicks to… Continue reading
Nudge is a toolkit to help businesses to get a better understanding of how customers are engaging. That feedback loop helps them make better decisions to improve effectiveness and efficiency. The ways Nudge pays for itself is through time saving for the folks using the technology. Enabling them to get to insights and action faster. And encouraging more use of data in their workflows through the easy to use dashboard. Once these are actioned, an improvement of a 5-15% on… Continue reading
Edition #387 Final thoughts on 22 and the year ahead. Top searches of the year & what is the color for 23? We finished out last years note, sending some NFTs out. Which was a fun exercise. I occasionally pull out my phone, and gaze at my NFT. But seriously, it was fun, make an image, mint it on the Solana blockchain, get folks addresses, send them out. However, I don’t think we’ll be doing that… Continue reading
This isn’t our first rodeo – we’ve been highlighting the best branded content for years. Find more inspirational pieces from previous editions here: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015. You might also be interested in our piece on measuring the success of your branded content. What you are seeing, are the select pieces we feature in our weekly newsletter. Subscribing to that is the easiest way to keep on top of… Continue reading
Edition #386 On why content rights will plague ChatGPT, ad growth slows in 23 and universities as the new media companies. ChatGPT debuted last week, to much fanfare, the NY Times called it “social media’s newest star”. How it works is, you can give it a prompt, and chat with the AI bot. Finding answers, writing scripts, or even interactive games. Leading to StackOverflow to ban AI-generated answers. Many calling that it may replace Google Search… Continue reading
You might ask, why does the price of Analytics companies vary? You can see the price vary from free to seven figures. The cost basis of these companies, is talent, infrastructure and R&D. With some of the offerings, more of your money is going to one of these three buckets. The way analytics companies incur cost is with more traffic/events. So pricing tends to follow that scale. With some rounding out for R&D and the level of talent put towards each… Continue reading
Each week in our newsletter we feature a campaign of the week, when it includes a great content marketing example, we add it to this page. This makes these the top content marketing examples that we have found. See the best of 2023 here. Jurassic World – Dinotracker DinoTracker from Department of Prehistoric Wildlife, as part of Jurassic World launch. @DinoTracker on Twitter. Continue reading
This guide on Behavioral Analytics dives into the topic, what it is, how it works and more. At the end you will have a foundational understanding of the topic. This post contains: What is behavioral analytics? How does behavioral analytics work? Web analytics role in behavioral analytics What departments is behavioral analytics used in? How effective are behavioral analytics? Different types of behavioral analytics Behavioral analytics in the marketing mix Privacy concerns… Continue reading
The Nudge platform requires direct observability of an action to authenticate it. What that means is, if you can’t place the Nudge code on an experience, Nudge can’t measure it. For example a Facebook post in Facebook. However, Nudge can measure the impact from these limitations. For example, someone clicks on a Facebook post to your website, where the Nudge code is on. That is the key limitation of the platform. … Continue reading