MaArDTech News - 1/21/2025
- Scott Davis
- Jan 21
- 3 min read
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Today's Music Vibe:
Events This Week:
DiveLive by Industry Live will be hosting "How the 2024 Holiday Season Fared & What It Says About 2025" Jan 23, 2pm EST, Virtual Register Here
News This Morning:
"Contextual Ad Targeting - 5 Things Marketers Need to Know about Streaming's Latest Obsession" by Parker Herren published on Jan. 21, 2025 - Ad Age
"Publishers Fear They Missed Their Chance to Cash In on Curation" by Anthony Vargas published on Jan. 21, 2025 - AdExchanger
"How TikTok Changed Advertising Forever" by Brittaney Kiefer published on Jan.17, 2025 - Adweek
"Exclusive: How Bayer Cracked the retail media code" by Cecilia Garzella published on Jan.16, 2025 - campaign us
"Despite financial pressure - or because of it? - tech stacks are actually expanding again" by Scott Brinker published Jan. 2025 - chiefmartec
"18 PPC Trends You Should Follow for Business Success in 2025" by Monica Axinte published on Jan. 2025 - DataFeedWatch Blog
"Agencies have mixed feelings about using AI tools for product placements and influence marketing" by Antoinette Siu published on Jan.21, 2025 - Digiday
"Is Salesforce Data Cloud Really Zero-Copy?" by Apoorv Durga published on Jan.15, 2025 - Real Story Group
"Digital Live Sports Viewing in the U.S. will Increase 21% by 2027" by Travis Clark published Jan.16, 2025 - the Current
"Ecommerce SEO: How to use generative AI to create product descriptions from your reviews" by Chris Long published on Jan.20, 2025 - Search Engine Land
Worthwhile:
Blink of the Day:
"Finding Your Element" by Ken Robinson - Finding Your Element (2013) offers engaging advice on ways you might discover your true passions and talents, and then reorient your life to incorporate more time for them. Written with a keen sense of wit, Finding Your Element offers entertaining and inspiring wisdoms that will help you not only to be more productive but also to improve your overall happiness and quality of life.
Word of the Day:
Cross-Channel Attribution - the process of measuring the impact of a marketing campaign across multiple channels and attributing that impact to specific channels. In order to maximize ROI and allocate spend effectively, marketers need to be able to measure cross-channel attribution. More on this at rockerbox
Metric(s) of the Day:
Not really 'metrics' today but details to various attribution models below
Last Click - Credits the last channel interacted with before conversion
First Click - Attributes success to the first interaction
Linear - Distributes credit equally across all touchpoints
Time Decay - Gives more credit to interactions closer to the time of conversion
Position-Based (U-Shaped) - Credits the first and last interactions more while giving some credit to interactions in between
Custom Models - Tailor models based on your understanding of customer behavior
Tool of the Day:
Wix.com - a cloud-based website builder platform that enables users to create, design, manage, and host websites without needing to know how to code. Features include: drag-n-drop editor, templates, artificial design intelligence (ADI), SEO tools, app market, eCommerce, mobile optimization, domain and hosting, scalability. More from Grok
Profile of the Day:
Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020), was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, educuation and art bodies... more on Wikipedia
LinkedIn Premium Learning Video of the Day:
Course details
1h 38m
Intermediate
Released: 10/11/2021
4.8
(463)
Marketing attribution is a critical but complex topic, and it’s only getting harder to decode what’s driving your marketing performance and decide where you invest your limited marketing budget. Getting it right can give you a significant competitive advantage, but if you make the wrong decisions, you can’t buy your way to success. In this course, Michael Taylor shares a practical approach to the complex analysis technique of marketing mix modeling to help marketers accurately measure the impact of their marketing and advertising efforts. Michael covers key aspects like multi-touch attribution models, marketing mix modeling, and incremental and A/B testing. To demonstrate the intricacies of mix modeling, he shares a practical exercise file so that you'll be equipped to make the right marketing investments that drive sales and profit.
Skills covered
Question of the Day:
What emerging MarTech tool or platform do you believe is poised to disrupt the digital marketing landscape in the next five years?




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