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Dotdigital Blog How do marketers navigate working with smaller marketing budgets? Gartner’s report, The State of Marketing Budgets and Strategy 2022 found that, while marketing budgets have climbed from 6.4% of...

Develop a digital advantage with data-driven insights Customer data, Email marketing, Reporting Since marketing functions have drastically changed from March 2020, marketers across the globe have been faced with the...

What’s new in Dotdigital Customer data, Reporting Today marks the release of our first product launch of 2022. Thousands of people use our platform every day to deliver better customer...

A look back at 2021 Not so fast, 2022 Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Customer data, Reporting, Segmentation Every year Dotdigital gives its employees a break between Christmas and the new year....

Data. We all have it (some would argue too much of it), yet most of us struggle to make use of it on a day-to-day basis. And so it’s not surprising then that Gartner’s 2020 Marketing Data and Analytics Survey found that “Marketing Analytics only influence 54% of marketing decisions made”. 

Open rate has been a core email metric for as long as the channel has been around. It certainly has its benefits, and of course, its disadvantages. But, like it or loathe it, the metric and how marketers report on their campaigns is about to change forever as Apple ushers in their latest update, iOS 15. Which begs the question, why do we put so much faith in it, and who really cares about open rates anyway?!

There’s no shortage of data in the life of the marketer, or tools that set out to help you tell better stories with it. So for this Q&A, I spoke to Blake Jackson, dotdigital’s very own Head of Online Marketing, about his favorite reporting tools, how he uses Data Studio to blend a variety of data (with a little help from our Google Sheets integration), and how storytelling through data makes a difference.

Think about the reporting that you use. How quickly can you identify your KPIs? Is it quicker than your competitors?

The right color palette can shed light on previously hidden stories in your data. The wrong palette can obscure information.

Since launching our feature forum as a place where we can better understand the demand for improvements to our products, we’ve had some really interesting conversations with clients that have...