Tag: content metrics

Analytics

Guide to Content Marketing Metrics

Are are measuring the right content marketing metrics? Here are the most common content metrics. Compare these to what you are currently measuring to find areas of improvement. The most common metrics marketers are adopting for content marketing are:  Attention, seeing how much attention people pay to your content.  Avg Scroll, the average scroll on each piece of content. Engagement rate, seeing the rate at which people take specific engagement actions. … Continue reading

Ben Young

April 25, 2023

Analytics

Guide to Content Measurement

Content measurement is the process of collecting data around content marketing initiatives.  Brands create content because it will help inform, educate or provide utility to potential customers. And if a brand can achieve that, customers will reward them, with brand awareness, loyalty, purchase intent or purchase. Measurement should reflect these objectives. Before proceeding further, if you do not know enough about content measurement, I recommend the following articles. What are the best free content measurement tools?   What is… Continue reading

Ben Young

March 29, 2023

Analytics

What’s on your Content Marketing Dashboard?

The best dashboard is the one you use so start simple. A good place to start, is with an out of the box dashboard, that gives you the top line metrics you need to see. Use that for a bit, then after a few months, customize it to suit. Or you figure out what exact metrics to focus on.  Going fancy or too technical too early in a content marketing program can limit options down the track. It’s better… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 23, 2023

Analytics

How should you invest in distribution? And what is a person anyway?

It’s a cliche to say quality over quantity. But with content, you need to unpack it a bit. First let’s explore quantity, because it really does matter. If you have invested in the content, you need to get it out there. As a guideline, you should invest (time or money equivalent) of 5 to 1. That is for every hour you invest in content production, you should invest 5 hours distributing it. Or simply allocate budgets that way. Measuring reach… Continue reading

Ben Young

November 16, 2021

Analytics

How to analyze content using scroll depth

Scroll depth is a content engagement metric, commonly used by marketers, to analyze what percentage of a page a user has scrolled to before leaving. A few use cases for scroll analytics There are a number of reasons why scroll tracking is useful for content marketers. The biggest reason being, it’s important that your content is seen and consumed, otherwise – why waste time creating it in the first place? Knowing where people drop off on a page helps marketers… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 24, 2021

Analytics

How to choose your digital marketing dashboard

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

Ben Young

February 24, 2021

Analytics, How To

How to track marketing metrics

Marketing metrics are tracked and measured by your marketing analytics software. To track the metrics, you need to install the code provided by your marketing analytics partner. Some metrics may need additional configuration, for example tracking conversions, or engagement rates. Which may need defining with additional o’clock actions. Once you have installed the code, you will need to QA it to make sure it is tracking correctly. Then after a few hours, you should be able to log in and… Continue reading

Ben Young

January 17, 2020

Influencer Marketing

How to measure Influencer Marketing ROI

To understand return on investment of an initiative, whether it is influencer marketing or any other, you need to anchor it against what you were trying to achieve. Then you can compare, what you got against that. Often media agencies and brands are seeking cut through, that is reaching the unique audiences and contexts that influencers have created.   Option 1: Contrast return against the alternatives To establish ROI, they want to compare against, what is the next best use… Continue reading

Ben Young

January 17, 2020

Analytics

Nudge, a content marketing analytics & attribution dashboard

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

Ben Young

December 11, 2019

Analytics

How to Measure Brand Awareness

You’re here as you want to find out more about how to measure brand awareness and the associated metrics. Brand Awareness is: the extent to which consumers are familiar with the distinctive qualities or image of a particular brand of goods or services.” Source: Wikipedia The intent of using this is to understand a baseline level of awareness of your brand and then a post exposure awareness to identify how effective a communications and marketing campaign… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 19, 2016