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Keep up! - the ultimate analytics resource round-up

Daniel Perry-Reed26 January 20222 min read

Over the years, I’ve stumbled across (and regularly returned to) a number of invaluable resources that help me keep up-to-date with the goings on with the technology, legislation and general industry news. Here's my list of go-to sources. I hope you find them useful too!

Analytics forums

Google Marketing Platform product forums

Analytics product resources

Google product release notes

Follow Google products on LinkedIn

Analytics blogs and newsletters

Google product official blogs

Independent and agency blogs

Analytics influencers to follow

Analytics podcasts

Analytics events and meetups

Analytics organisations

If you have any resources you’d like to add that I’ve missed, please drop me an email at daniel@measurelab.co.uk and I’ll add them to the list.

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