133: Simon Heaton: Buffer’s Director of Growth Marketing on agile sprints, holdout testing and why a CRM or GA4 isn’t in their tech stack

Simon helps us explore Buffer’s martech journey, highlighting their shift from traditional tools to a product-led approach driven by data and server-side analytics. We unpack their use of Customer.io for automation and hold out testing, Redash for data insights, and their agile sprint model that fosters continuous innovation. Discover how Buffer’s small team thrives with efficient, data-driven strategies.More

126: Michael Rumiantsau: AI’s role in democratizing data narratives for marketers

Michael’s on a mission to make data insights accessible and useful for everyone, not just experts, by leveraging AI to provide tailored, easy-to-understand insights that boost decision-making. This episode unpacks the future of Business Intelligence, automating insights with LLMs, and the importance of anomaly detection. Michael also discusses how proprietary data gives companies a competitive edge in the AI market.More

119: Adam Greco: The Future of event-based web analytics

Adam is a leading voice in digital analytics and he unpacks event-based analytics and how it’s transformed how marketers interact with data. Data tools are complicating the martech landscape with overlapping functionality and confusing terminology so Adam breaks down the nuanced difference between product analytics, customer data infrastructure and ETL.More

64: Procrastinator’s guide to Google Analytics 4

I am going to tell you GA4 is getting a much worse rap that it deserves precisely because so many marketers have been deep in GA3/UA for so long. Changing habits is tough, and GA4 makes it more challenging because of a new interface, not too mention a completely different approach to web analytics. No big deal – you can learn all this in a Sunday afternoon, right?More