Metrics and measurement

Is too much math killing marketing?

March 19, 2010

I’m now back from my trip to Austin and pleased to say that the panel session went just great!  Big thanks of course to my co-panelist Rand Schulman and our moderator Joanna Burton. I want to blog about it in a bit more detail, but for now I thought I’d just collect together the online [...]

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Vote for my sessions at SXSW please :-)

September 2, 2009

Voting is in full swing for the panels at next year’s SXSW in Austin Texas.  Earlier this year I was lucky enough to do a panel on doing business in Europe – next year I’d love to go back. I have two sessions you can vote for. 1) Is too much math killing marketing Breakthrough [...]

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Bad science is good PR

January 22, 2009

A couple of news stories caught my eye last week. One was the story about the carbon footprint of a single Google search, which I blogged about at the time.  The second was a story widely reported in the UK press about how drinking more than seven cups of coffee a day can cause you to [...]

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Microsoft’s Engagement Mapping takes aim at ‘last click wins’

February 26, 2008

I work for an integrated digital agency and for us it is common sense that all digital channels are inter-related and have an impact on each other. But calculating the impact of say display advertising on search and making sensible optimization decisions is quite complex.  It’s also a pointless exercise if clients are obsessing over metrics like CPA as [...]

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