article thumbnail

On hardwork, Shorts Cuts and Aggregating in Digital

Direct Marketing Observations

In the world of digital, there exists the potential to aggregate your activities and consolidate your digital streams so as not to duplicate work. Do you ever hear anyone after a huge win, a major client victory or a momentous occasion within an organization say the following? That’s not really a short cut.

article thumbnail

Using Google Trends to Identify Social Media Opportunities

Jon Loomer

Marketers should utilize available data sources — particularly free sources — to better understand how the social platform landscape is shifting. A few caveats: The information is provided for aggregate groups of Google users, and is not traceable user-level data. Both comparisons have a strong correlation overall.

article thumbnail

How TechCrunch Approaches Video Marketing & Trends to Watch for in Video – Travis Bernard [SSM0035]

Buffer Social

All eyes on video marketing. The challenging part for marketers is two-fold: Understanding what makes videos successful and knowing which metrics to measure. He’s seen first-hand what can happen when marketers chase the wrong video metrics and take a one-size-fits-all approach to video marketing.

Video 100
article thumbnail

Using Google Trends to Identify Social Media Opportunities

Jon Loomer

Marketers should utilize available data sources — particularly free sources — to better understand how the social platform landscape is shifting. A few caveats: The information is provided for aggregate groups of Google users, and is not traceable user-level data. Both comparisons have a strong correlation overall.

article thumbnail

5 must-have social media dashboard templates for brands

Sprout Social

A social media dashboard is a tool that aggregates your crucial social media metrics across networks to quickly measure the performance of your posts/campaigns, customer care interactions and community engagement. Every data dashboard serves a different function—from tracking brand awareness to aggregating marketing metrics in one place.

article thumbnail

How Apple’s iOS 14 Update Will Impact Facebook Advertising

Ignite Social Media

Additionally, aggregated data will not include the ability to breakdown data by demographic. As is typical with these big platform changes, benchmarks from previous campaigns will not be as relevant a comparison when looking at the performance of campaigns executed after the iOS 14 implementation. Actions Your Brand Will Need to Take.

article thumbnail

The 4 Marketing Metrics Mandates

Convince & Convert

Tweet There are four mandates that companies are adopting when they are examining and analyzing the success of their online marketing and social media programs. For a very long time, measuring marketing was a needle in a haystack approach, whereby we all agreed to lie to each other about data and extrapolations of it.

Metrics 123