Skip to contentContent analytics helps make businesses make better decisions around how content can drive business outcomes. From understanding is this good content or not, to attributing to conversions/business value. Explore our posts around how to best use them.
Measuring the success of branded content is not as hard you may think. I like to try boil it down to three things. How many people did I reach What was the quality of that reach? What did they do next? Our approach at Nudge, is to help simplify your job, we help you identify the best content with content measurement, then get more eyeballs on that content through insights. It’s content measurement and analytics in a box. Continue reading
Choosing a digital marketing dashboard can be difficult. This post helps to make the process of selecting a dashboard easier and more effective. Let’s start by defining what as dashboard is. What is a digital marketing dashboard? A digital marketing dashboard is a collection of metrics, with the purpose of displaying important information in regards to your business. Typically using visualizations to make the data easier to digest. And just like a dashboard in your car, a digital marketing… Continue reading
I was having a virtual coffee the other day, jamming on different measurement tools being used when it comes to content. Content creation, content marketing, content optimization. With agile marketing teams, focused on getting the most from their resources, having the right tools can make all the difference. Many use a web analytics tool like Google Analytics, yet find that it lacks the fidelity to identify where content can improve and see the impact it has on the customer. What… Continue reading
Content marketers are seeking a better alternative to Universal Analytics (Google Analytics) or GA4. In the early days of the internet, we visited homepages, clicked around, and left. We didn’t even have tabs, smartphones, or social sharing. It was in this context Google acquired Urchin to form Google Analytics. That was the old way. Now we live in a multi-tab, multi-device, multi-format world. Content is delivered to our customers seamlessly and on-demand. Users are blind to banner ads. To stand… Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who participated, Gustaf passes on thanks for the invaluable feedback. If anyone else wants to join just let me know. One big thing Content consumption is up. I was delighted to receive the latest edition of The Explorers Journal, I’ll treat myself at the weekend over coffee. It got me thinking, during this disruption print editions of major publications are likely to stop, or be paused. And some won’t come back. A… Continue reading
Install content analytics that enables accurate data collection on your content. You want to establish how people are getting to your content, how many you are getting, what they do once they got there and is the content effective? This means measuring metrics like scroll, attention, traffic sources. And using a system like Nudge that takes the data and turns it into automated insights. Read more in our guide to content measurement. Continue reading
Using a third-party specialist marketing analytics tool will enable you to measure your effectiveness. In particular, when marketers reference effectiveness, understanding benchmarks is helpful. Where am I sitting as an organization against my competitors? Because yes, you need to be effective in driving results but are we doing better than our competitors (or not). This is useful nuance and context. Because hey, who doesn’t want to beat their competitors? Technically you are going to need a few things… Continue reading
Defining success is ground in your content marketing strategy. What is it we are doing and why are we doing it. Then measuring success, gets a lot easier. You will want to make sure you have an analytics system installed, typically with a piece of javascript. That enables the platform to measure your content. Of the content marketing metrics, some that should help inform if your content is doing the work it should be is: Attention, how long… Continue reading
Use a specialist marketing analytics tool that enables you to measure the things you need to measure. Specialist tools like Nudge, take all the learnings from the whole market, synthesize them and help establish the best practices. What are the most important things to be tracking? These enable you to measure how the content is performing, what is working, what isn’t working. To install these, it typically involves signing up, giving permission to access your social channels and installing code… Continue reading
Nudge at its core is a marketing analytics platform to give you more visibility into what is performing. Because content has become the cornerstones or backbone of marketing today, that is where we have focused. And each year it continues to change. As we do too. As company or culture, we are very pragmatic, work within the constraints we as marketers have, to help deliver the best clarity. Then leverage technology to generate smarter insights. An example is our Insights… Continue reading
