Following years of delays to its proposed deprecation timeline for third-party cookies, on Monday Google made the startling announcement that it would not be phasing out 3P cookies in Chrome after all. Does this U-turn mean that marketers should change course?
An annual snapshot of attitudes towards prioritising and measuring marketing effectiveness, Marketing Week and Kantar’s ‘The Language of Effectiveness 2024’, shows a distinct surge in interest towards econometrics at a time when marketers are anticipating signal loss from 3P cookies.
Being able to measure the performance and effectiveness of integrated marketing campaigns that combine paid search with other channels is essential for gaining an understanding of what worked, and what can be improved in future campaigns. This chapter looks at what measures to use and the toolkits, such as Google Analytics, that can help. Measuring […]
Web analytics provide advertisers with the means to analyse customer behaviour and draw deep insights into usability and customer experience, which can then be applied to paid search tactics. This chapter considers the free and paid available tools and how to use them effectively, also looking at attribution modelling and reporting on paid search performance. […]
Advertisers are on a quest for incrementality in retail media. David Pollet, CEO at Incremental, talks to Econsultancy about measuring the return on this fast-growing form of ad targeting, including the limitations of legacy approaches and complexity at big brands.
Knowing how to use key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics effectively is critical to a good measurement strategy. This chapter explores some of the factors that should guide the selection of metrics, and other aspects of campaign measurement. Measuring email campaigns Conversions are often referred to as ‘goals’ to include the breadth of different outcomes […]
With the measurement landscape in flux as the deprecation of third-party cookies heads towards completion, this webinar looks at the strategies being adopted to measure campaign performance and drive effectiveness.
Being able to measure how well a company’s marketing is performing towards meeting goals and driving growth is essential. This best practice report looks at the impact that the end of third-party cookies and increasing regulation is having on marketing measurement.
The role of data has become increasingly central to ecommerce capability, challenging businesses to adapt systems, workflows and practices to capitalise on the opportunity that rich data and understanding can bring. As machine learning becomes ever more integrated into systems, new ways of enhancing customer experience, gaining deep insights and applying personalisation at scale are […]
Testing should be used throughout the customer journey to optimise against key goals and measures. This chapter provides an overview of the testing process. It includes an experimental framework to allow for continuous optimisation and outlines models for attribution – another important consideration for teams seeking to understand how much each channel contributes to ecommerce […]
It can be tempting for ecommerce teams to focus on metrics that are immediately identifiable as important, such as conversion rate. Yet it is important that teams recognise the role that each stage in the journey has in contributing towards not only conversion, but overall revenues and profit. This chapter outlines the most important metrics […]
Measuring performance is clearly critical to driving success in ecommerce. With a plethora of metrics available to measure, teams should focus on the KPIs and metrics that will not only give them a comprehensive view of what is happening in the customer journey, but also enable them to test and learn, and drive performance. This […]