Marketing mix models often fail because insights stop at analysis. Here’s what it takes to turn MMM into a decision-driving capability. Angelina Eng on December 18, 2025 Marketing mix models aim to answer the marketer’s billion-dollar question: where should you spend your budget? Yet most organizations build models and still struggle to translate their … Continue reading Marketing mix modeling has a usage problem, not a tech problem
Marketing is being transformed by practitioners using AI to compress strategy, creation and execution from weeks into hours. Marc Sirkin on December 12, 2025 The term “Vibe Marketing” emerged in February 2025, when OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy described “vibe coding” as fully embracing the vibes and letting AI handle the technical details, while humans … Continue reading The Vibe Marketing manifesto
We keep optimizing based on attribution, not impact. It’s time martech tools let us test what really drives incremental results. Mike Maynard on April 21, 2025 The web is filled with content explaining why incremental sales matter and why attribution can be misleading. Many marketers have turned to incrementality expert Avinash Kaushik for guidance … Continue reading Why don’t martech vendors provide a tool for the metric that matters?
Fragmented data and failing attribution models? Here’s how to flip the script with smarter, privacy-first measurement. Rodolphe Dougoud on March 10, 2025 Marketing’s biggest challenge today isn’t a lack of data — it’s too much of it. Campaigns, channels and customer interactions generate endless metrics, often fragmented across platforms. The decline of third-party cookies … Continue reading The smarter approach to marketing measurement
MMM’s diverse applications — from budget to media optimization — make it a critical tool for proving and improving marketing performance. David Walters on February 21, 2025 This article was co-authored by Matt Wakeman, Weicong Zhao and Joseph Enever, analysts in the Gartner Marketing Practice, covering marketing data and analytics. Marketing leaders have long … Continue reading Unlocking the power of marketing mix modeling solutions
Customer lifetime value is a simple concept with profound implications. It is a critical success factor if you’re looking for long-term profitability. Scott Hornstein on October 13, 2023 Marketing departments have near-term and long-term responsibilities to the corporation. Near term is entirely driven by the needs and maturity of marketing operations. Long term, marketing is … Continue reading CLV: The metric that means money
Set up your marketing campaigns for success with a well-thought-out measurement plan. Here’s what to consider when creating one. Katie Robbert on June 1, 2023 I’ve sat through countless meetings where someone has a kernel of an idea for the marketing team, and within a few minutes, it’s a full-blown campaign. Everyone is ready to … Continue reading 5 failure points of a marketing measurement plan — and how to fix them
Leverage the happiness rating, a CMO technique that connects feelings and emotions to elevate performance and productivity. Jade Bunke on January 31, 2023 How do you build a high-performance marketing team? It starts with employee happiness — and ends with a meteoric rise in your metrics. Are you ready to drive your team’s performance to … Continue reading 11 steps to boost marketing metrics with employee happiness
Marketers Begin To Tackle Very Complex Message — Youth And Gender Identity by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 24, 2022 Kids believe their generation has a much clearer understanding of gender compared with older generations — with 80% of kids and teens trusting people their age to understand who they are and their gender, including how … Continue reading Marketers Begin To Tackle Very Complex Message — Youth And Gender Identity
Is Nielsen’s Audience Measurement Makeover What Marketers Need? by Maarten Albarda , Featured Contributor, December 11, 2020 Nielsen announced a major do-over of its media measurement and tracking platform this week. David Kenny, Nielsen’s chief executive officer and chief diversity officer, called it “a single cross-media solution to drive comparable and comprehensive metrics across all … Continue reading Is Nielsen’s Audience Measurement Makeover What Marketers Need?
