Marketers’ digital skills have declined during the pandemic

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Digital marketing skills have stagnated or declined during the pandemic, research from training body Target Internet, in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), has revealed.

Their report has found that unlike many other sectors - which saw digital skills accelerated by the pandemic - the majority of digital marketing skills stagnated or declined between 2020 and 2021. This decline has occurred across almost all sectors, and at all job levels, with skills in...

21 December 2021 | Big Data

Lack of Trust in marketing data – What does this mean for the CMO?

Earlier this month Adverity launched its latest research project, surveying 964 marketers and marketing data analysts to understand their major challenges, strategic priorities, and pain points.

Shockingly, the research found that over a third (34%) of CMOs don’t trust their marketing data, this rises to over 50% of CTOs / CDOs. Meanwhile, the biggest pain point for both marketers and data analysts (42%) is the time it takes to manually wrangle data. Whilst there is not...

29 November 2021 | Big Data

Two-thirds of Gen Z out of touch with traditional Black Friday marketing

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Gen Z has fallen out of touch with Black Friday marketing that fails to demonstrate a company’s sustainable practices, despite being the nation’s biggest consumers.

The latest from student marketing platform Student Beans, the research suggests conscious and ethical brand communications have the most impact on younger generations.

Despite this, Gen Z spends more than any other generation during the Black Friday weekend. This year the average 18-to-24-year-old spent...

29 November 2021 | Advertising

34% of CMOs do not trust their marketing data

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More than a third of CMOs do not trust their marketing data, according to research from marketing data analytics platform, Adverity. 

Additionally, there is a growing divide between data analysts and marketers when it comes to trusting their data. 

Almost a third of marketers don’t trust the data they are given to inform campaigns. A number that rises to 41% among their data analyst colleagues - posing a new challenge for the C-suite charged with driving...

15 November 2021 | Big Data

Institute for Rebooting Social Media launched by Harvard University

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Harvard University has launched an academic initiative called the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, which aims to fix social media's most urgent problems.

Described as a “three-year pop up initiative”, the institute will focus on addressing misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment and content governance.

The institute is part of the University’s Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society (BKCIS) and it is being funded with £1.5 million from the John...

22 September 2021 | Data Science

How MACH can transform the digital customer experience: A guide

There is no doubt that the global Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption. For many companies, this move was one they were, understandably, unprepared for. And even for some of those businesses who were already operating online, their technology was either not sufficient enough to adapt at speed, or too general to meet the rapidly changing needs of their customers.

Even post-pandemic, consumer needs are continually evolving, with people shopping on mobile devices, on...

26 May 2021 | Advertising Technology

The six biggest myths holding back insight-driven businesses

Between economic pressures and ever-dynamic consumer trends, the past year has driven businesses to be more agile. If we’re looking for a silver lining to the pandemic, it’s that companies have accelerated their journeys toward data maturity.

But what does this mean for marketing operations? Despite the challenges, more and more businesses have turned to data to help reframe their priorities and achieve greater agility. While financial investment in this area is high – over...

20 April 2021 | Best Practice

Back to basics: The five Ws and two Hs of individualised marketing science

We live in a 24/7 culture, constantly connected with all of our technological advances and smart devices and hyper-personalised media outlets. That is especially true while we’ve lived and worked at home so much since early 2020.

As marketers, we also tend to enjoy living in our own self-created, nonstop working world, filling calendars with meetings and events, always being available, and racing to get the current campaign deployed without any reflection or rest before starting...

15 April 2021 | Customer Experience

It’s time to stop wasting marketing spend and start using uplift models

In today’s saturated consumer landscape, the marketing teams that win are the ones that earnestly ask what each customer wants, and relentlessly use data to find the answers. In recent years, analytics and predictive models have enabled forward-thinking marketers to get ahead. But as these techniques get more ubiquitous, the competition is catching up. So what’s next for marketing teams on the cutting-edge?

At Vidora, we believe that uplift modeling is the next big frontier...

27 January 2021 | Commerce

Digital, content and social roles on the rise in 2021, says LinkedIn

eCommerce personnel, digital content professionals and creative freelancers are expected to be among the fastest growing jobs in the UK in 2021, according to new data from LinkedIn.

The figures appear in LinkedIn's 'Jobs on the Rise' report, which analysed sectors with the highest year on year growth rates in hiring between April and October 2020.

Covid-19 has naturally played a major role in determining which roles are most sought after. In terms of eCommerce, which was...

18 January 2021 | Commerce