ChatGPT Ads Need Performance Metrics Before OpenAI Goes Public by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, April 17, 2026 OpenAI will compete for performance ad budgets as it readies a conversion tracking pixel for ChatGPT ads. The company began testing ads in February. It makes sense that when users click an ad to carry out an … Continue reading ChatGPT Ads Need Performance Metrics Before OpenAI Goes Public
April 14, 2026 The Cobra Effect: why managing by metrics backfires BY Greg Satell With the growing momentum of the “No Kings” protests, activists have increasingly turned to the 3.5% rule—Erica Chenoweth’s observation, based on over a century of historical data, that once a protest movement mobilizes 3.5% of the population, it achieves its goals within … Continue reading The Cobra Effect: why managing by metrics backfires
Data shows opens and CTR rarely predict winners. Focus on conversion rate and revenue per email to measure true performance. By Jeanne Jennings Published on March 27, 2026 Open rate. Click-through rate. Ask most marketing teams how their email program is performing, and those are the numbers they’ll show you. But here’s … Continue reading The email metrics marketers are likely to get wrong
Email performance is being redefined, and disaffection, replies and trust are replacing opens and clicks as the signals that actually matter. By Constantine von Hoffman Senior Editor, MarTech Published on March 27, 2026 For years, email performance has been measured with a familiar set of metrics: opens, clicks and conversions. But those numbers are … Continue reading 3 new email metrics that you need in 2026
Marketing metrics aren’t a pass fail test but a navigation system for making better decisions in an unpredictable market. By Kathleen Schaub , January 29, 2026 Imagine a world where the day when executives review marketing dashboards isn’t fraught with tension. Where deviations from planned results don’t mean failure — either failure … Continue reading How smart leaders use marketing metrics to navigate uncertainty
December 21, 2025 The most important year-end metrics aren’t on your balance sheet
Why Clicks Don’t Equal Customers: The Metrics That Really Matter in Google Ads Ron Hutchison Oct 23, 2025 When most clients or businesses first dive into Google Ads, the first metric they notice is clicks. After all, clicks mean people are visiting your website — so more clicks must mean more customers, right? Well…. not … Continue reading Why Clicks Don’t Equal Customers: The Metrics That Really Matter in Google Ads
LinkedIn Fills Gaps In Attribution, Metrics, Measurement Reporting by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, September 23, 2025 Advertisers trying to measure the impact of a recent campaign see a bunch of clicks and impressions, but have no idea which companies engage with the ads. Traditional attribution models fall short — especially in the B2B space, … Continue reading LinkedIn Fills Gaps In Attribution, Metrics, Measurement Reporting
Forget the low-hanging fruit and reach for the numbers that tell you what’s really working. Mike Pastore on June 19, 2025 Marketers, and B2B marketers in particular, often face criticism for focusing on vanity metrics. Vanity metrics are numbers that are easily measurable and look good on paper but don’t directly correlate to business … Continue reading 7 vanity metrics marketers should avoid, and 7 to replace them
You likely won’t find one metric to lean on as search transitions to AI-powered answers, but here are 10 to consider. MarTechBot on June 16, 2025 In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot, which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has … Continue reading What are the important metrics to watch as organic search traffic evolves?
