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Working From Home: An Alternative Blog Post

I wouldn't really consider myself a writer and to my knowledge I've only ever written one blog post in my entire lifetime (which was more like a sarcastic Dry January Facebook post). But when Adam said he was writing a blog post about their experience of Working From Home during this Covid-19 pandemic and was asking for input from others - it sort of turned into it's own blog post anyway, so here goes: Every day I wake up and I'm full of energy.  In fact, I find myself with enough extra energy

Victor Sarker-

Google Tag Manager setup: how to create your first tag

Creating your first GTM tag This is the third of a series dedicated to introducing you, faithful reader, to the wonders and delights of Google Tag Manager. Last time, we took a high-level look at GTM and how it works, and today we'll be looking at how to set up a simple tag. Setting up a Google Analytics pageview tag We're going to set up a Google Analytics pageview tag. This replaces the old hardcoded GA that you'd used to have to put on every page of the site. We start by going to tags and

Adam Englebright-

Audience activation in 5 simple steps

Amidst news of cookies crumbling and third party cookies eventually becoming obsolete, there is even more emphasis on identifying visitors who arrive on websites and providing users with a reason to remain loyal to your brand. Here is a simple user case on how to effectively personalise your customer experience using the Google Marketing Platform. According to Econsultancy: “50% of consumers are likely to engage with a brand when they receive an interesting offer.” So how can you demonstrate

Aimée Hart-

Capturing existing classic GA calls with GTM – Solutions Corner #4

This is part 4 of a semi-regular series, dedicated to reusable GTM solutions for scenarios or issues we’ve encountered more than once. The challenge with pre-GTM classic calls Last time, we looked at how to turn on-page classic Google Analytics calls to data layer pushes, and this time we'll be looking at a supplement to that—what if the classic GA call you're looking to capture is before GTM loads? This pretty much only matters for ecommerce, so that's what the solution focuses on. We start

Adam Englebright-

Google Tag Manager basics: a closer look at GTM’s core concepts

Exploring GTM core concepts This is the second of a series dedicated to introducing you, faithful reader, to the wonders and delights of Google Tag Manager. Last time, we were looking at just what a tag manager is anyway? This time, we'll be taking a look at GTM itself. We're going to go through the three key components of GTM: tags, triggers and variables. We're not going to touch on the other things in the GTM sidebar, folders and templates, for the time being—they're useful extensions but n

Adam Englebright-

Google Tag Manager Basics #1 - What Is A Tag Manager?

This is the first of a new series dedicated to introducing the uninitiated to the wonders and delights of Google Tag Manager. Before we start thinking too closely about GTM itself, though, we'll pull back a bit and ask: What is a tag manager? A tag manager is a service that allows you to remotely insert and manage small pieces of code, or “tags”, onto a site by means of a Javascript snippet placed across the whole site. There are a number of different tag managers out there—Tealium, Ensighte

Adam Englebright-

Turning classic GA calls into dataLayer pushes with GTM

This is part 3 of a semi-regular series, dedicated to reusable GTM solutions for scenarios or issues we’ve encountered more than once. Last time we looked at how to track clicks on iframes using GTM, and this time we’re looking at how to turn on-page classic Google Analytics calls to data layer pushes. The problem with hard-coded GA calls Say you still have hard-coded calls to classic GA on the page, but the library code itself was being delivered via GTM. It's now been removed, but there are

Adam Englebright-

A day in the shoes of an Insight manager: Andrew Fowkes at EDF

For our regular "A Day In The Shoes" feature, Andy - Senior Research Executive at EDF - talks about delivering a fresh insights perspective and tells us about the skills he needs to be effective in his role. Here’s what his day-to-day looks like. Aimée: Can you start by telling me your job title and responsibilities Andy: I manage Customer Insight projects of all types at EDF . My view is that the role of an insight manager in a big organisation has changed massively. It’s moved away from jus

Aimée Hart-

How to Conduct an Exceptional Training Session

So… you’ve been asked to conduct a training session and you don’t know where to start. Or, you’re looking for a way to take your current training process to the next level. Whatever your level of experience, the following tips will help you make your next training session exceptional. 1. Know the subject The first step in giving an exceptional training session is being deeply familiar with the subject matter. In the words of Albert Einstein: You may think you know a subject through and throu

Dave Beatty-

Team weekend outing: Measurelab’s Dorset adventure

Measurelab hits the Dorset coast for a team weekend Last Friday we all put our "out of office" notifications on our email, ditched the computers and headed off to Bournemouth and the beautiful Dorset coast for a couple of days. It was time to reflect on how the company is evolving and a chance for us all to get to know each other a little bit better. Reflecting on our journey together It was really lovely for us to all be able to get around the same table and share our thoughts. Throughout t

Mark Rochefort-

A day in the shoes of a Senior Analyst: Will Deschene at EDF

Our first launch into a ‘day in the shoes’ series is spent with Will Deschene, Senior Digital Analyst at EDF. In this interview, he tells us about managing stakeholders and a team, brands that have inspired him lately, and shares some valuable advice for new analysts. Aimée: Please describe your job: what do you do? Will: The majority of my work is stakeholder management, less of the 'doing' in the analytics world, as I now have two analysts in the team. It's more about stakeholder engagement

Aimée Hart-

Product affinity analysis: discovering what items customers buy together

Understanding what customers buy together Being able to answer the question ‘which of my products do people regularly buy together’ with ease and simplicity can be invaluable. Market Basket Analysis, also known as association analysis, is a way of mining shopping data to establish a set of rules that describe purchasing patterns. This analysis can be conducted using a wide variety of software such as SAS, Python and R. Why association rules matter The reason for investigating association is

Katy Beckett-

Three Small Recent GA/GTM Improvements

Google are always making small unannounced tweaks and improvements to their products—here are a few of the more noteworthy ones we've spotted recently! Scroll Depth Tracking I gave out at length last year about the fact that you can't specify the trigger conditions for the listener dropping on the scroll depth trigger—meaning the page length couldn't be calculated accurately and causing scroll depth events to fire early. I suggested that they might want to let you select the listener conditio

Adam Englebright-

Expanding on optimisation: effective strategies for digital success

Recently I ran a workshop with a leading International luxury fashion retailer. The purpose was to structure thoughts between disparate teams around purpose and definition of an optimisation workstream. Initially we talked about short term imminent goals, with the festive season fast approaching these were not surprisingly highly tactical and focused around maximising peak performance. Setting the scene At this stage I introduced more broader notions around decoupling the shopping journey or

Aimée Hart-

How to use BigQuery without GA360: insights from Measurefest 2019

Speaking at Measurefest For the first time in a few years, I took to the stage at Measurefest to talk about how to get your data from Google Analytics into BigQuery, and what you can do with it when you get there. Affordable BigQuery solutions Obviously, Analytics 360 can do this, but it costs $$$ per year. I outlined some more affordable methods, including third-party connector solutions, and provided a detailed example of how we would use our own Pipelines solution and what we could achiev

Adam Englebright-

Next‑Generation measurement with Google Analytics 4

Why GA4 has us excited This announcement has us rather excited at Measurelab. It has been a long time coming and represents the beginning of a completely new shift in how we use and think about digital measurement with Google Analytics. Leaving the old pageview model behind What we are effectively looking at here is a move away from Google Analytics as we know it, which inherited its underlying data collection schema and methods from Urchin Analytics; the analytics software product Google bo

Mark Rochefort-

GTM iframe tracking – Solutions Corner #2

This is part 2 of a semi-regular series, dedicated to reusable GTM solutions for scenarios or issues we've encountered more than once. Last time we looked at how to fire Google Analytics event to keep track of your Google Optimize experiments in GA, and this time we're looking at tracking clicks on iframes. We have encountered, several times, the situation of a client wanting to track clicks on an iframe. While we can't do much about interactions with stuff within the iframe without having GTM a

Adam Englebright-

Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce tracking with Adobe DTM

Here at Measurelab, we work predominantly with the Google stack but that doesn't stop us using other tools. As there's not much documentation available in the public forum on how to implement Enhanced Ecommerce in Google Analytics using Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM) formerly know as Satellite, I think this blog post would be useful. As good introduction to the tools itself, below there’s a useful overview of Adobe’s Dynamic Tag Management architecture, which is from their learning resource pa

Alex Cirstea-