Episodes

You can’t make good decisions without quality data - whether those be decisions about pricing models, marketing budgets, or website performance. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.

2023 in review - and a look towards 2024.

Mark Fiske led the marketing teams at well-known brands like Ancestry and Credit Karma before going over to private equity, where he now advises on marketing and digital transformation for portfolio companies of H.I.G. Capital.

Leondra Gonzalez is a Senior Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft, and is currently co-authoring a book on interviewing for data science roles.

Love it or hate it, GA4 is here to stay. But is it all that bad? Or are we just resistant to change? Find out why Dana DiTomaso has "I <3 GA4" stickers, and how marketers can get the most out of GA4. Dana has spent more than 20 years in the digital marketing and analytics space. She's currently the President and Partner at Kick Point Inc., and the Founder and Lead Instructor of digital marketing training platform Kick Point Playbook. ▶️ Watch on YouTube Links from the show: 20% Off the An...

When it comes to machine learning and artificial intelligence being deployed for marketing mix modeling, we might want to pump the brakes a bit, at least that’s what some industry leaders are saying. To explore this topic in a little more depth, we wanted to bring on an expert, someone who’s been in this field for nearly 2 decades, and has built a highly successful company around marketing mix modeling over the past 10 years. Dr. Ramla Jarrar has a Master of Science in Quantitative methods...

We're joined by Myles Younger, Head of Innovation and Insights at U of Digital, where he leads new product development, tech services, and thought leadership to help scale the company’s educational offerings to new formats, new learners, and new markets.

Simon makes his first appearance on the pod... and never leaves!

Sometimes two things go together perfectly, like cookies & cream, Batman & Robin, or doing a happy dance when that meeting you've been dreading gets cancelled at the last minute. Here's another one to add to the list - incrementality testing and marketing mix modeling. Ok, it sounded way less boring in my head :) Either way, the conversation I had with John Wallace, Co-founder and CEO at LiftLab, was anything but boring. He gave the recipe they use for testing that is beyond where most com...

Ben Dutter, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Power Digital, has a lot of great stories about making or saving clients a lot of money by being smart about how they measure marketing performance. Like the one in the title of this episode - they saved a client $6 million (!) in wasted ad spend while keeping revenue flat. In this episode, he shares his thoughts on marketing attribution, how to think of multi-touch attribution (MTA), and he shares the BEATS framework (which I highly recommend) f...

A lot of marketers are familiar with A/B testing, usually with regards to website testing and conversion rate optimization. But there’s another kind of testing that marketers are becoming more interested in lately, and that’s testing of the marketing itself. It goes by many names - randomized controlled trials, geo-lift experiments, conversion lift studies, holdout testing - maybe you’ve heard of these? But maybe you weren’t sure where to start with them? Elea Feit is here to help! She has...

Have you ever thought of going out on your own and starting your own consulting company? Yeah, me too. But there was always something stopping me - usually the golden handcuffs of a cushy job with benefits - and needing to be the primary provider for a family of 5. But today is the day I'm thrilled (and if I'm being honest, terrified) to announce that I've done it! I am now the Founder and CEO of Cauzle Analytics - a marketing analytics consultancy to help guide you through marketing mix modeli...

Greg Dolan is no stranger to marketing in a recession. He saw it first hand as a brand manager for Campbell Soup Company during the Great Financial Crisis in 2008. Now, he's got front row seats as a co-founder of Keen, a SaaS marketing mix modeling platform founded in 2011. Listen in to hear what are the most common mistakes marketers make when facing economic headwinds, and how they should be making decisions in this environment. ▶️ Watch on YouTube Links from the show: Keen - Marketing Mix ...

Rick O'Toole is the Co-founder and CTO of Rockerbox, a marketing attribution platform. He joins me on this episode as we discuss the future of marketing measurement, whether multi-touch attribution still has a role to play, and where he sees marketing mix modeling fitting in. Rick has a unique perspective as someone who's been building an attribution platform for 10+ years. ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube Links from the show: Rockerbox MMM for Shopify Rockerbox Free - data consolidation Rick...

Michael Kaminsky is a trained econometrician and co-founder of Recast, a platform for modern Marketing Mix Modeling. Before starting Recast he was the Director of Analytics for Harry's, where he was exposed to marketing mix modeling. Listen in as Michael shares his thoughts on validating MMM, how to do it right, and the cost of doing it wrong (or not at all). ▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube Links from the show: Recast Michael on Twitter Michael on LinkedIn --- Send in a voice messag...

Kate Cook is the Head of Analytics at The Lumery, a marketing and technology consultancy in Melbourne, Australia. But she didn’t start out in data and analytics - she transitioned there from digital marketing. That combination of marketing chops and knack for numbers has proven to be valuable as she leads companies along the attribution journey. Known as “Attribution Gal,” Kate shares her thoughts and frameworks about how companies need to approach this complicated topic. ▶️ Watch this epi...

Mike Taylor created and grew a successful growth marketing agency (Ladder.io), is building a business around simulator-based courses for data-driven marketers (Vexpower), and is the author of a forthcoming book about marketing memetics. He joins me on the show to talk about the power of memetics in marketing (and so much more), creative testing, and marketing measurement. Here are a couple of quotes for the show: "Measurement wasn’t actually better before iOS14, it was just easier." "It...

Today on the show I’m joined by Gabriele Franco, the founder of Cassandra, a no-code marketing mix modeling tool that allows marketers to build models within minutes, without needing to know R or Python. We talked about Robyn - the open source package from Meta that enables semi-automated marketing mix modeling and how Cassandra adds an enhanced layer of usability. We talked about education, and some of the options out there for learning MMM. Finally, we wrapped it up with some thoughts on mu...

The Measure Up podcast is almost here! The first episode will be coming out on April 12 - subscribe now so you don't miss it. In the first episod, I talk with Gabriele Franco, founder of Cassandra, a no-code marketing mix modeling tool that makes it easy fro anyone to get up and running with MMM without needing to know R or Python. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/measure-up/message