Measurement Changes in Google Analytics 4
What GA4’s new measurement framework means for marketers This is the third blog in our seven-part Google Analytics 4 Migration Guide series. The series focuses on how businesses can accelerate their move to GA4 ahead of looming sunset deadlines — to gain a competitive edge by mastering the GA4 platform’s next-generation data-driven marketing capabilities. You can read the full Guide here. In the first two installments, we covered how to create a framework for migrating to GA4 and how to actually...
Trending
Measurement Changes in Google Analytics 4
What GA4’s new measurement framework means for marketers This is the third blog in our seven-part Google Analytics 4 Migration Guide series. The series focuses on how businesses can accelerate their move to GA4 ahead of looming sunset deadlines — to gain a competitive edge by mastering the GA4 platform’s next-generation data-driven marketing capabilities. You can read the full Guide here. In the first two installments, we covered how to create a framework for migrating to GA4 and how to actually...
A Senior Media Trader on Daily Life at DELVE
Irina Merkel gives us an inside look at her duties as a DELVE Senior Media Trader on the Programmatic Team. Irina, what do you do at DELVE? The primary objective of a DELVE Media Trader is to find the best application of client’s media budget, either for brand awareness (so potential customers recognize the brand) or for a performance campaign (driving customers to subscribe, buy, donate, register or another desired action.) All these activities are called Programmatic and yes, it includes all the...
Creating Properties & Enabling Data Collection in Google Analytics 4
The basics of property creation and adding data streams to GA4 This is the second blog in our seven-part Google Analytics 4 Migration Guide series. The series focuses on how businesses can accelerate their move to GA4 ahead of looming sunset deadlines — to gain a competitive edge by mastering the GA4 platform’s next-generation data-driven marketing capabilities. You can read the full Guide here. In the first part of our Google Analytics 4 Migration Guide series, we focused on how organizations...
Personalize Your NFP Ad Creative: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn more about creating personalized campaigns, using programmatic advertising as an example. So far in our NFP series, we discussed how a strong first-party data strategy will allow your NFP to group existing core audiences by implicit or explicit signals into logical interest groups or "initiatives," and how your internal or agency Media teams can upload these segmented audiences into their media platforms for search, display, social and other digital platforms, and execute personalized advertising that...
Use Segmentation to Target Donor Interests: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how to export your segmented audiences to ad platforms—and power personalized advertising. The first article in this series, Improve Performance with Personalization, described how your NFP can “flip the script” with traditional channels (direct mail, email) and personalize messaging to resonate better with your core audiences. Now, let's talk about integration among direct mail, email and digital—in other words, how to deploy a personalization-driven omnichannel strategy. What do we mean by a...
Enrich Core Donor Files with Data Flags: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn how initiative-based data can help power personalization, increase advertising ROAS, and grow donation volume. In our previous article, Improve Performance with Personalization, we made a case for declining performance in DM and EM being driven by lack of personalization. To be more specific, we believe that lack of "cause-centric" flags in your first-party core donor files—and the inability to segment DM, EM or digital files by what donors care most about—is holding back performance. In...
Improve Performance with Personalization: Not for Profit Transformation Series
Learn why personalization across direct mail, email and all digital channels is the key to donation growth. As the inaugural chapter in our NFP-centric series, this article has one singular goal: to make a case for personalization as the key to improving direct mail and email performance. We recognize that NFPs must lean on digital to attract net-new donors, such as Millennials, who will donate on a recurring monthly basis. However, we also strongly believe that an omnichannel approach to marketing and...
The DELVE Manifesto: Not for Profit Transformation
How DELVE's "data first, advertising second" model helps NFPs attract net-new and younger donors—and drive donation growth. At DELVE, we recognize that marketing and advertising budgets are some of the biggest expense line items for many Not for Profit organizations. We're also very aware that the work that we perform for our NFP clients must have a very direct, measurable impact on marketing and advertising performance. And, of course, we believe in doing things the right way—which is why our motto is...
DELVE Wins Award for Best First-Party Data Strategy
BOULDER, Colo., — October 28, 2021 — DELVE, the measurement-first advertising consultancy that empowers marketers with the intelligence of their own data, announced today that it has won the award for Best First-Party Data Strategy by a Marketer at the 2021 AdExchanger Awards Programmatic I/O event on October 26, 2021. This award was granted for DELVE’s work on a cloud-based data lake for Gerber Life Insurance Company (GLIC)—an endeavor that was part of a multi-year enterprise data, analytics, and...
Go Deeper with DELVE
Stay up to date on the latest data, analytics, and media best practices.