Analytics & Attribution

GA4, MMM, ROAS, and the measurement layer that tells you what is actually working once last-click attribution breaks.

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PPC Measurement Broke the Moment Google Started Keeping Score

There's a question buried in every PPC performance review that most teams skip over. Not "what's our ROAS" or "should we increase budget." The uncomfortable one: when the platform setting your bids is the same platform reporting your results, how much of

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Google Brought Back 'Data Studio' After 3.5 Years of Its Own Naming Confusion

Google renamed Data Studio to Looker Studio in October 2022. Last Friday, they renamed it back. That is 3.5 years of brand confusion, broken bookmarks, updated training decks, and rewritten documentation, all to end up roughly where they started. The official framing is about evolving customer needs in an

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Google's Data Manager API Consolidated Three Pipelines Into One Dependency

Google's official pitch for the Data Manager API: “one centralized, secure connection so advertisers can easily get the most out of Google AI for their campaigns.” That sentence contains three value propositions and exactly zero mentions of what it replaces or why the old thing had to die.

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Reddit Won't Touch Your First-Party Data (That's the Lock-In Strategy)

Reddit announced a measurement partnership with Mozilla's Anonym this week. The pitch: advertisers can now measure campaign lift and attribution on Reddit without ever transferring first-party data to the platform. No data leaves. Privacy protected. Everyone benefits. That framing is accurate. It also happens to be the least

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Meta Built the Tool That Decides How Much Credit Meta Deserves

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial Meta described Robyn's mission as "democratizing modeling knowledge" and "reducing human bias." Those are real goals. They also happen to serve Meta's commercial interests perfectly, which is the part that doesn't make the press release.

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Jones Road Beauty’s Best Channel Was Overspending on the Wrong Customers. A New Kind of MMM Found It.

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial Jones Road Beauty just discovered that the channel eating most of their budget was mostly finding people who would have bought anyway. That’s the kind of finding that makes a CMO go quiet in a meeting. And it came from a tool that most

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Local Publishers Lost Half Their Traffic to AI. Their Response Is Worth Stealing.

A group of local publishers just did something that most individual publishers have been avoiding for years: they admitted the problem is too big to solve alone. According to AdExchanger's reporting, local news publishers in the Local Media Consortium are seeing 25 to 50 percent traffic declines from