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It's nearly the end of term

As we countdown the last few days to the Christmas break, I wanted to share a few moments from what's been a busy and fun-packed couple of weeks at Measurelab. Besides all the great work everyone has been doing (which is de rigeur, of course), there's been much going on. First up to report is our little Christmas outing to Brighton; we went ice-skating at the beautifully picturesque outdoor ice rink at Brighton Pavilion. Some of us were a little more proficient than others (ahem). Gladly no bon

Mark Rochefort-

What is a Data Strategy and do I need one?

Let’s assume you’ve been using Google Analytics in your organisation for some time and your digital marketing endeavours at least are data-driven. More and more people are starting to see the benefit in using data to get their jobs done and now everyone’s talking about Data Science or Big Data or whatever. To be clear - when we say “data” we are not talking about just Google Analytics but the proliferation of this tool means that it is very likely a starting point for your data analytics. Alongs

Mark Rochefort-

Overcoming the limitations of Google Analytics

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager are used by around 30 to 50 million companies worldwide. The tools are great for basic web analytics but restrict the user to aggregated data unless a substantial fee is paid (reported to be £90K per annum). This presents a large obstacle for small to medium sized businesses who want to develop a data-driven strategy. Let’s imagine a small retailer wants to implement a recommendation engine. Not a bad idea given that Amazon estimates that around 35% of sal

David Kane-

Knead that CRO dough into shape, ‘tis the season for the perfect prove

Whether you’re starting on your CRO journey or have been at it for years, chances are you’re after opportunities to give your bottom line a boost during the festive season. Taking some time to plan and carefully curate those optimisation journeys will not only go some way to making sure the additional traffic works better for you, it’ll result in a meaningful set of results and maximise learnings for the post-Christmas wash ups. Having worked 5 years for a well-known UK health and beauty re

Aimée Hart-

Toot toot... All aboard the Measurelab train!

In the last couple of months we've had three new starters and I'd like to give them a little nod of recognition, if I may. First up is (Doctor) Dave, who joined us as a Data Scientist in the Summer; he popped along to one of our Brighton Analytics meetups and it just went from there. Dave's background is in terribly clever machine vision stuff - he was recently working in Barcelona (at Universitat Pompeu Fabra) doing Postdoctoral Research involving adaptive image processing algorithms (wher

Mark Rochefort-

GTM event tracking best practices – Solutions Corner #1

This is part 1 of what I hope will become a semi-frequent series on here, dedicated to reusable GTM solutions for scenarios or issues we've encountered more than once. This particular entry is a companion to Mark's piece from a couple of years back, but for Google Optimize rather that Optimizely. In short, it sends data layer pushes so you can fire Google Analytics events when there are Optimize experiments running, which saves you from using custom dimension slots etc in the course of ordinary

Adam Englebright-

Goodbye DoubleClick, hello Google Marketing Platform!

Last week, Google announced they were unifying their analytics and advertising platforms under a single new name: Google Marketing Platform. The Google Analytics 360 Suite and DoubleClick brands are being replaced with this single name. What does this mean for DoubleClick? If anything this is a change that has needed to happen for years. DoubleClick always sat rather clumsily alongside other tools from Google and this shift heralds the beginning of a more unified approach. Search Ads 360 wil

Mark Rochefort-

Chat about analytics and drink beer

Last night's #BrightonAnalytics&nbsp;<a href="https://www.meetup.com/BrightonAnalytics-Meetup/events/251264167/">meetup</a> was a great success - thanks to all who made it along to the Evening Star pub to chat about analytics and drink beer! The next one will be Tuesday July 17th - again at 6pm-9pm in the Evening Star, Brighton. See you there! [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="1" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails" override_thumbnail_settings="1" thumbnail_width

Mark Rochefort-

Adding Firebase Analytics to your React Native app

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This article describes how to integrate Google Analytics for Firebase (formerly Firebase Analytics) to a React Native app. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to do this, you need to use a JavaScript bridge called </span><a href="https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RNFirebase</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. &nbsp;</span> This is lightweight layer sitting on top of native Firebase librarie

Alex Cirstea-

Firebase Analytics demystified

<span style="font-weight: 400;">After a steep learning curve into the world of Firebase Analytics or Google Analytics for Firebase, it seems that a blog post about it would be much valued and appreciated. I’ve compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions.</span> 1. How does Firebase Analytics define a session? Firebase Analytics defines a session as a user engaging with your app for a minimum amount of time (10 seconds by default) followed by your user not engaging with your app

Alex Cirstea-

The Problem With Google Tag Manager Triggers: Those Shiny New Built-In Options (And a Possible Solution)

Hey folks. The shiny new Built-In Triggers for things we used to have to use big old Custom HTML tags to track before—Youtube tracking! Scroll depth! Element visibility!—have had a bit of time to bed in now. We had a look at changing over to the new built-in solutions everywhere we were using Custom HTML—if it's being done by Tag Manager itself, it has to be better, right? Right? Wrong. This issue is related to a fact that I've discovered through experience but not seen actually documented exc

Adam Englebright-

Measurelab turns 4: celebrating our anniversary & journey

Our fourth birthday in Paris Measurelab turned 4 in September and to celebrate we all shut our laptops (except Mark, who got very excited about the organisations announcement from Google) and took the Eurostar to Paris for some well deserved and much needed rest, relaxation and culture. First taste of Parisian adventure The trip was unofficially sponsored by Heineken (no craft ales or even Harvey’s best for sale on Eurostar unfortunately) and we toasted the start of our trip in style with pe

Dara Fitzgerald-

Activist analytics: using digital analytics to drive change

Hey folks, Adam here. I had quite a busy weekend last week - one that has now been documented in the national press! - and thought I'd share some thoughts about it on here. My journey into activist analytics I've been a member of the Labour Party and the related grassroots movement Momentum for several years now, but beyond a bit of leafleting here and there social anxiety has kept me away from the phonebanking, street stands and doorknocking that lie at the heart of party political activity.

Adam Englebright-

Data Studio new countries availability

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The time has come for more of you to enjoy the benefits of Data Studio reports! Today, Google has announced long-awaited expansion of its product availability to more than 180 countries. </span> More and more people will now be able to enjoy the benefits of this powerful tool - you can now create, share and edit reports, and impress your boss and clients with your skilful dashboard creation skills. But that's not all! With that great news come other useful f

Magdalena Pajak-

Free Google Analytics Health Check Template by Measurelab

Hey Folks, It's been a while since the last time I wrote anything on the blog so I thought I'd make it up to you with a little freebie. Why GA health checks are important One of the most common tasks at Measurelab (and I'm sure in many other analytics agencies) is to run a "health check" of the main features and configurations of the Google Analytics user interface. How the template works This varies in depth and level of detail depending on various factors but we do find it quite helpful

Juan Barros-

Google Data Studio: just getting better & better

We have some great news for all those of you who live and breathe Data Studio! Google has just announced two big changes to the tool: 1. The 5 report limit for the free version has been removed 2. What is even more exciting, Data Studio is now free for both basic and 360 (enterprise) version users! Up till now, the only real downside of the free version of the tool, was its limitation in the number of reports you could create per account. So if you are a free version user, you won’t be reall

Magdalena Pajak-

Google Data Studio tips: tricks and best practices

Getting started with Google Data Studio Since its release back in May 2016, Data Studio (a free version of Data Studio 360) has made quite a lot of progress on improving its functionality. Of course, it is still in beta, so you might come across some system bugs and limitations, but the Google team is working hard to add new features and fix any issues the user may face, with at least two new releases per month (so far). I won't go into details as what you can do with the tool, as you can chec

Magdalena Pajak-

When GA just isn't enough - my #measurefest talk

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I spoke at <a href="http://www.measurefest.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#Measurefest</a> in the Barbican last Friday. Here are the slides from my talk but I wanted to write a quick summary to give a bit more context as the slides on their own don’t tell the story. </span> When GA just isn't enough from darafitzgerald The title of the talk was "When GA just isn't enough". For some that know me this might sound like an unexpected title. I sp

Dara Fitzgerald-