Not news: Marketing attribution, never a simple thing, is becoming increasingly complex. News: AI-powered forecasting is rapidly gaining popularity as a desired feature in marketing attribution platforms, according to a new report from Ascend2. While still a niche feature, 29% of marketers now deem it crucial, a significant increase from 13% in 2023. Despite this…
As marketers pour more budget into digital channels, a surprising disconnect remains. While the majority of retail sales, for example, still happen in physical stores, most marketing efforts focus solely on tracking online metrics. The challenge? Traditional attribution models fail to connect digital spend with real-world outcomes. To bridge this gap, marketers must embrace AI…
Traditional marketing tracking methods like unique phone numbers and coupon codes are becoming less effective. With stricter privacy regulations and consumers gaining more control over their data, marketers have turned to digital attribution using pixel-based tracking. However, this method overlooks the full customer journey by focusing only on the last interaction before conversion. To better…
Today, geolocation technology company Foursquare introduced Sales Impact, a new offering in its campaign attribution suite. The tool combines location and purchase insights, allowing marketers to measure the impact of multichannel campaigns on sales. Previously, the Foursquare Attribution target used geolocation for logged-in customers to measure foot traffic to stores and other signals to estimate…
The focus of most B2B companies is developing products and services customers need. Selling them requires detailed customer information. It falls on marketing to get that data, usually via event registrations, website forms and the like. Sometimes that isn’t enough, which is why data enrichment providers exist. The types of data they can provide include…
Some 61% of digital marketers are still using third-party data, according to Salesforce’s latest State of Marketing Report. It also found problems with data activation, personalization and AI optimization. Although the percentage of marketers using third-party data is down from 75% in 2022, this illustrates a problem with finding reliable information. The top three data…