Over the last few months, Google AdWords has announced a series of platform updates aimed at helping marketers successfully traverse an ever-more-complex digital marketing landscape. The updates give advertisers more control by allowing them to better track, analyze...
Analytics in focus: Social data makes comms agency work a more exact science
There was always a portion of agency work that came down to the gut. Marketers, public relations teams and advertisers just knew sometimes, or at least they thought they did. They developed pitches and eventual campaigns using a combination of their intuition and data...
Big data: Leveraging data blending
Data analytics firm Alteryx this week released a survey from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services on how companies are leveraging data blending to uncover business insights, even as Big Data sources continue to grow at an unprecedented rate. The survey, which...
Why PR professionals should focus less on impressions
It’s no secret that the public relations industry receives a bad rep for how it demonstrates its value in terms of sales and consumer interest. I don’t necessary disagree with that statement. Who actually looks at online impressions anymore as a metric? Before I made...
Big Data: more concerns means new opportunity for data-centric security
Big data implementations are deployed across the organizations of 55% of the 206 respondents to take the 2015 SANS survey on Security of Big Data Environments, while an additional 28% plan to develop such implementations in the next two years. They are using their big...
Social media science: do you know your followers’ personality traits?
Science-Focused Study Reveals Non-Conscious Purchase Motivations Communicators make it their job to understand audiences—for retail and B2C PR and marketing, this means knowing who is shopping at your store, and what and how much they’re buying. But one key CEX...
Dashboards for media monitoring, business performance and everything in between
The first time I saw a corporate dashboard on a big LCD screen, back in 2010, it displayed the number of daily unique visitors of a website plus the guest WIFI password. Things have changed so much in 5 years. Today’s dashboards draw on a vast array of business...
New study makes the case for Data Analysis-as-a-Service capabilities
New research on data analytics reveals that the majority (63%) of B2B companies polled are frustrated by the amount of time it takes to attain the meaningful reports and data insights they seek to make more informed business decisions. It also revealed that most...
Does Big Data mean big money? Most companies now actively working on Big Data projects
Managed public cloud provider 2nd Watch recently released survey results showing that most companies are actively working on big data projects and have dedicated significant dollars to their efforts. The online survey, conducted the first two weeks in May, included...
5 ways to ensure successful data-driven marketing
Marketers love data. In a survey by GlobalDMA and the Winterberry Group, 77% of marketers are confident in using data-driven approaches to drive growth and better customer experiences. The biggest drivers of increased use of data-driven marketing include: 53% - A need...
Majority of companies using Big Data analytics see higher returns
The results of a new global study commissioned by CA Technologies reveals that enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to organizations, despite noted challenges in implementation. Most notably, nine in 10 organizations are experiencing or...
How to leverage Big Data to build customer trust and loyalty
Companies Need to Leverage Data and Analytics to Be More Predictive Just as companies are now able to access unprecedented insights about their customers thanks to data analytics, customers also have more information available than ever before to assist them in their...