Matt leads the measurement function at Canva, he reshaped measurement so centralized models stayed steady while embedded data scientists guided decisions locally, and he built one forecasting engine that finance and marketing can trust together.More
Tag Archives: attribution
184: Nadia Davis: How to decide if attribution data is good enough to guide strategy
Nadia learned early that attribution keeps you in business, proving to executives why the budget, the team, and the work matter. Seeing “attribution is dead” posts, she built her Attribution Periodic Table to show data modeling, measurement rules, and cross-team alignment as one connected system.More
182: Simon Lejeune: Wealthsimple’s VP of Growth on 2 keys to be a top 5% marketer
Simon Lejeune learned early that chasing small wins keeps growth teams stuck, a lesson that landed hard when Hopper’s CEO dismissed his price‑point test as a “local maximum” and pushed him toward ideas bold enough to reshape the business. That experience drives how he leads at Wealthsimple, where he tells teams to stop polishing the same hill and start climbing new mountains.More
178: Guta Tolmasquim: Connecting brand to revenue with attribution algorithms that reflect brand complexity
Brand measurement often feels like a polite performance nobody fully believes, and Guta learned this firsthand moving from performance marketing spreadsheets to startup rebrands that showed clear sales bumps everyone could feel. When she built Purple Metrics, she refused to pretend algorithms could explain everything, designing tools that encourage gradual shifts over sudden upheaval.More
176: Rajeev Nair: Causal AI and a unified measurement framework
Rajeev believes measurement only works when it’s unified or multi-modal, a stack that blends multi-touch attribution, incrementality, media mix modeling and causal AI, each used for the decision it fits. At Lifesight, that means using causal machine learning to surface hidden experiments in messy historical data and designing geo tests that reveal what actually drives lift. Attribution alone can’t tell you what changed outcomes.More
167: Moni Oloyede: The marketing ops identity paradox, attribution is a waste of time and GTM engineering is just sales ops
Your buyers can’t remember why they bought from you, our brains physically can’t store that information correctly. But we’ve built elaborate attribution systems pretending otherwise. Moni helps us understand why we need to stop crediting random touchpoints and start measuring how effectively each content piece performs its specific job in moving people through your funnel.More
166: Constantine Yurevich: Visit Scoring, an alternative to MMM and MTA few marketers know about
Multi-touch attribution is a beautifully crafted illusion we all pretend to believe in while knowing deep down it’s flawed. The work is mysterious, but is it important? The big ad platforms sell us sophisticated solutions they don’t even trust for their own internal decisions. Is it time we accept marketing causation is a thing we can’t measure?More
165: Ashley Faus: Building content that matches actual human thinking by integrating lifecycle, content and product marketing
Marketing frameworks often fail because they ignore how humans actually behave. People don’t follow neat, linear paths; they explore, double back, and leap ahead based on genuine interests. Drawing from her diverse experience across corporate communications and lifecycle leadership, Ashley exposes how artificial walls between marketing functions create dysfunction while offering a solution. More
160: Mac Reddin: How to leverage dinosaurs to get warm intros and drive better pipeline
Mac treks through the Jurassic wilderness of modern sales, where outbound campaigns cannibalize themselves while AI-powered sequences are degrading response quality by the day. Real marketing power flows through human networks, forward-thinking companies are transforming their SDR teams into relationship architects who measure success through network depth and authentic engagement. Be the team that does better.More
156: Chris Golec: The Godfather of ABM is on his 3rd company and he’s solving attribution for B2B marketers with AI
The Godfather of ABM takes us through his humble beginnings in Detroit’s industrial trenches to category creation and entrepreneurial expeditions. His journey spans building magnetic company cultures, cracking the code on remote work, sharing candid hiring wisdom, and transforming marketing failures into fuel for growth. Now building Channel99, he’s rewriting attribution with a touch of AI engineering, predicting marketing ROI, using a white box approach.More