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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
A helpful tip in interpreting data is to re-enact how the data was created. This helps understand what the data means, what it reflects and also how you can use it for decision making. For example, for content analytics, revisiting a piece of content. And following the actions that are being recorded. The closer you can mimic the real world method the better. This is a great first step in helping interpret the data that you are… Continue reading
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
Embrace data driven decision making as an input in to your marketing. As you shape up your strategy and plans, use data audits to understand what is working and what isn’t working. Then embrace continual optimization and changes through a regular data feedback loop in to progress. This could be real-time dashboards for the tactical through to bigger reports for the monthly, quarterly and annual. Continue reading
Data-driven storytelling is about using data to support and move a story along. It adds weight. It adds depth. It adds credibility. Knowing that someone robbed a bank is interesting. Knowing that someone robbed a bank but got away with no money. It is more interesting. Use data to support and build your story. To add that extra color. Which makes it engaging. Continue reading
Content marketing continues to evolve and so do the tools which help power it. There truly are many talented people, building little tools and apps but also platforms. Here we’ve compiled a list to help navigate. A couple of sites as useful resources are UseFI and ProductHunt. The former helps see what other brands have declared they use. And ProductHunt is where creators share their latest tools. So worth keeping an eye on what’s new. Here are our top tools:… Continue reading
Colin here. I’m filling in for Ben as he prepares for child number two. One big thing There’s starting to be a flood of brand interest onto TikTok. It is, put simply, one of the most interesting and creative spaces on the Internet right now. Not surprisingly, the platform is experimenting and is in the nascent stages of building out its ad and sponsorship products. Right now, it’s basically just an opening screen that a… Continue reading
We’ve been thinking about renaming the newsletter from This Week in Native Ads, native is now the norm and de-facto. Any thoughts or ideas? Format will stay the same, covering the pillars of native; programmatic, content, balance of art and science and the intersection of advertising and media. One big thing The only constant is change. And this week’s stories only highlight that, we see mobile time is growing 27% YOY, DTC brands pulling from social to invest in… Continue reading
I recently wrote a piece on how context in premium environments impact how we respond to content, where we learned that contextual advertising leads to increases in attention, which in turn, impacts brand recall (amongst other things). In this piece, I cover how advertising/branded content impacts long-term memory – more specifically, how emotional responses to advertising strengthens brand recall and recognition. To avoid confusion, it’s worth noting that I alternate between the terms ‘advertising’ and ‘branded content’,… Continue reading
