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What’s the Best Alternative to Google Universal Analytics for SMBs?

Webbiquity

end of Google’s Universal Analytics (UGA) rapidly approaching, digital marketing professionals are frantically seeking alternatives. It’s tightly tied to Google Tag Manager (GTM), a system so convoluted and confusing that even Google’s own technical staff often struggle to make it work properly. What to do?

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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations. Attribution in the age of privacy The digital marketing community has been obsessing over increasing privacy regulations and the deprecation of third-party cookies — and our experts are no exception. Deal with the loss of third-party cookies.

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How to Balance Personalized Marketing With Data Privacy in 2021

Webbiquity

Over the past three years, data privacy has received a great deal of media attention, driven mainly by the implementation of GDPR in the EU. Yes, privacy legislature is excellent news for consumers, especially when considering the consequences of data breaches. falls under these privacy regulations. Image credit: Despositphotos.

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Privacy-Protecting Systems Are The New Green

Customer Experience Matrix

Let’s take a break from Customer Data Platforms to do some trend-spotting. I spy with my little eye…privacy systems! Specifically, there's a crop of systems that are privacy-safe alternatives to dominant social, search, email and other common consumer technologies. The implications of this are intriguing.

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Goodbye Third-Party Cookies, Hello Content Marketing

Contently

Google has reportedly been rolling out this shift for years. But in January 2024, Google finally rolled out a new feature— Tracking Protection —that could signal the end of the third-party cookie as we know it. Google itself has announced it does not plan build “alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse the web.”

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4 Web Design Trends That Will Stand The Test of Time

Marketing Insider Group

Design trend changes often feel like the heavy duty cycle on your washing machine. The big companies have nearly unlimited resources, so they can afford to experiment with every micro-trend that comes to light. The trend is and has been more, more, MORE and that’s not changing anytime soon. The question now is how.

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Why GA4 Is So Awful and What to Do About It

Marketing Insider Group

That’s what we thought when we first encountered Google Analytics 4. As the team at Marketing Insider Group, we’re always knee-deep in digital marketing trends, and GA4 has been a hot topic on our radar. It’s not just a new version of Google Analytics. Video Source: Google Analytics 2.