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Email Marketing Benchmarks: A Data-Driven Approach to Optimization

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Meta Automatic Campaign Adjustments: Should You Be Worried?

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Exploring Attribution Modeling Types for Better ROI

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Email Marketing Benchmarks: A Data-Driven Approach to Optimization

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 19, 2024 6:26:42 PM

Email marketing remains crucial for any successful digital strategy. But how do you cut through inbox clutter? Email marketing benchmarks provide the answer. These help you understand campaign performance and measure against industry standards.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution
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Why Google analytics 4 fails at tracking conversions and what to do instead

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 18, 2024 4:58:38 PM

The marketing world is obsessed with data, but are we measuring what matters? Google Analytics 4 (GA4) promises enhanced tracking and deeper insights, but several Google Analytics 4 flaws could sabotage your marketing efforts. These flaws revolve around misleading data on conversions, data accuracy, and customer journeys.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution
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Meta Automatic Campaign Adjustments: Should You Be Worried?

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 8, 2024 6:23:21 PM

Meta quietly rolled out a new feature for ad campaigns – and frankly, it’s causing a bit of a stir in the digital marketing world. You may have already heard whispers of “Meta automatic campaign adjustments.” I’m here to pull back the curtain on what they are, why they might not be as magical as Meta wants you to think, and how these automatic adjustments could potentially harm your campaigns. Let’s face it – running marketing campaigns in today’s landscape is about as straightforward as navigating a maze blindfolded. Between setting budgets, targeting audiences, and crafting compelling ad copy, you’ve got a lot on your plate. That's precisely why Meta’s shiny, new feature – promising to handle the heavy lifting of optimizing your ads with automatic campaign adjustments – can sound oh-so-tempting. But, before you hand over the reins to Meta’s algorithm, it’s crucial to understand both the potential benefits and pitfalls.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution
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Exploring Attribution Modeling Types for Better ROI

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 11, 2024 9:04:50 PM

Every savvy digital marketer wants to know one thing: what’s working?

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution
10 min read

Apple IOS 17 Link Tracking Protection from a Marketing Attribution Perspective

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jun 16, 2023 12:08:08 PM

Apple IOS 17 - short term data slippage, long term upheaval

Summary:

  • UTMs, Facebook click IDs, and Google click IDs are going to be stripped from IOS17 links - both iPhone and Mac
  • Tracking and reporting solutions relying on link identification text are going to be impacted
  • Approaches on tracking and attribution post IOS 17 are given below
  • With our deep partnerships with Google and Facebook, we heard about Apple's work on removing link IDs and UTMS (they call it "link decoration") back in Spring 2022.
  • It took all 13 years of our experience in tracking & attribution - but Wicked Reports users will still have accurate marketing attribution and optimization
The Scoop on IOS 17 and Link Tracking:
Apple has announced IOS 17, and it's causing some marketing world drama.  https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-announces-powerful-new-privacy-and-security-features/

In particular, this paragraph has thrown us digital marketers into an uproar:

Link Tracking Protection in Messages, Mail, and Safari Private Browsing
Some websites add extra information to their URLs in order to track users across other websites. Now this information will be removed from the links users share in Messages and Mail, and the links will still work as expected. This information will also be removed from links in Safari Private Browsing.

This means users can select a setting that will strip all UTMs, variables, and click IDs from Facebook, Google, TikTok, Microsoft, et al.  

With Google Analytics 4 being pushed onto everyone, it's divine timing that Apple drops a bomb on GA4's potential data accuracy.

On the surface, you hear it's for private browsing mode, and relax - that's similar to incognito mode in Chrome, which people generally only use to snoop around or visit certain late night sites...right?

But then I was shared this video from Travis Ketchum, and this might be a bigger deal than I thought.  The video goes right to the time stamp that has the Link Tracking Protection settings - and it sure seems easy to turn this on for ALL browsing.

Topics: Email Marketing Automatic Link Builder Facebook conversions UTM value UTM UTM values Attribution Health WBRAIDS GCLID
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How To Use Multi-Touch Attribution for Ecommerce Marketing

By Katie Switzer on Jun 8, 2022 10:39:00 PM

Have you ever wondered which ads are bringing in sales, and which campaigns are wasting ad spend?

Topics: Ecommerce marketing attribution ROI Linear Attribution Attribution Health multi-touch attribution
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Wicked Data Cleanup

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Aug 11, 2019 10:40:56 AM

At Wicked Reports, we are always looking at how we can give our clients the most accurate view of their Wicked data. As part of this effort, we are introducing several enhancements over the next several weeks and months that will cleanup your Wicked data. Below is the first set of enhancements that we are introducing with some background on each enhancement and how it will impact you. Going forward, we will release new articles describing how we are helping you get a more accurate view of your Wicked attribution data.

Topics: Data Cleanup Attribution Health