This week Dan and Dara are joined by their first returning guest Bhav Patel! Bhav has been on a journey since the last time they were on the podcast, starting the product measurement consultancy CAUSL and running more CRAP Talks. Hear from Bhav what it's like starting a consultancy in the data world, working in the open, and of course, whether or not Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is disrupting the product analytics space.

This week Dan and Dara are joined by Johan van de Werken, creator of GA4BigQuery.com. They chat about how GA4BigQuery started and where it's going, how Johan moved from letters to numbers, how the GA4 BigQuery course on Simmer was designed and developed, and we hear about his punk rock cover band!

This week Dan and Dara are once again running solo, and this time bringing back up the Universal Analytics (UA) sunset timeline and when you should have Google Analytics 4 (GA4) in place by. Spoiler alert, it's asap! They chat about how it can take two to three months to migrate to GA4, and what to consider in the process. They also run through the 2023 GA4 updates, no matter how underwhelming…

This week Dan and Dara talk about their experiences in building automated dashboards. There's 1,001 ways to approach building them, so Dan and Dara go through the common missteps, how to scope and plan it out effectively, and even ways to measure the usefulness and consumption of them! Listen to the end to hear their great new business idea...

This week Dan and Dara talk about the very recent announcement that Google Optimize will be sunset on 30th September 2023. No exceptions, no extensions, it'll be gone for good for everyone - the free and paid versions! They discuss how this will affect the analytics and CRO industries, and whether Optimizely or VWO will be suitable replacements for the current Opimize users. They also think about the future of Google's proposition and whether the GMP will be rolled into the GCP.

This week Dan and Dara are joined by Marc Crawley @ Diversita, a recruitment organisation that specialises in advising and empowering neurodivergent data, technology and IT professionals. Neurodiversity is everywhere, with around 20% of the UK considered neurodivergent. Dan, Dara and Marc discuss what accommodations can be put in place for neurodiverse candidates in the recruitment process, as well as the concept of masking and disclosure.

This week Dan is joined by Usman Qureshi from the CRO agency Spiralyze to discuss all the GA4 features that they need to see in 2023. They reviewed episode #21 of The Measure Pod on what we needed to see from GA4 in 2022, see what actually happened and then what GA4 needs to release (or fix!) this year. 2023 is the year that Universal Analytics (UA) is sunset for the majority of people, so this is the year to polish GA4 up to the max!

This week Dan and Dara are chatting about what they think will change in the analytics industry in 2023. Things like consent management, financial recession, multi-cloud warehousing, Universal Analytics (UA) getting shut down and lots, lots more. Listen to the full episode to hear what they have to say, and let's see how close they get by this time next year...

This week Dan and Dara are joined by Luisa from Jellyfish to help make sense of the recent SKAdNetwork 4.0 release from Apple. It's a world apart from the web side of things - something that Dan and Dara find out very quickly! Luisa takes them both through what SKAN is, what new features 4.0 brings and the most important differences from web ad measurement to bear in mind.

This week Dan and Dara take a look back across The Measure Pod in 2022 and share some numbers and statistics of how it's been going. They also each share their top 5 episodes of the year, and compare notes. Happy holidays, christmas, new year and the rest - here's to 2023!