The Measure Pod
The Measure Pod is a fortnightly podcast hosted by veteran practitioners of the marketing and product analytics industry. Join Dan Perry-Reed (Principal Analytics Consultant and Trainer @ Measurelab) and Bhav Patel (Director of Experimentation and Analytics @ LeanConvert) and the occasional guest on their quest to make sense of the analytics industry, and have some fun along the way.
#63 Safari is at it again - capping 1P cookie lifetimes and redefining 3rd party!
This week Dan and Dara discuss the recent changes announces from Apple on the way they will be copping 1st party cookie lifetimes - even if being being set via server-side GTM. What imapct will this have, and what difference will it make to most people? That and if Sessions is a better metric than Users (again)...
#62 Debunking common cookie consent, GDPR and ePrivacy myths (with Rowenna Fielding @ Miss IG Geek)
This week Dan and Dara are joined by Rowenna Fielding "a warrior on the front line of the fight to defend humanity's rights and freedoms in an increasingly tech dystopia", and helps organisations stitch together technology, law and humanity to make stuff work the way they want it to. Rowenna helps Dan and Dara understand the legal differences between 1st vs. 3rd party, ePrivacy and GDPR, PII and PD, and what 'legitamite interest' is (or rather, is not). Listen to the end to hear Rowenna do a live audit of the Measurelab website...
#61 WTF Google?! GA4’s Data API quotas are breaking things!
Dan and Dara are back, and this week are discussing the recent update from Google Analytics where they are now enforcing their Data API quotas. Since 7th November 2022, Looker Studio reports that connect to Google Analytics 4 data are subject to GA4 Data API quotas. Reports that exceed these quotas will break, and Dan is more than annoyed...
#60 The inevitable… Google postpones sunsetting GA360
This week Dan and Dara discuss the recent announcement that the sunsetting of GA360 has been pushed back 9 months to the 1st July 2024. The news comes bundled with other new feature announcements such as custom channel groupings, automatic GA4 property creation and native bidding in DV360. What does this mean, why did they do it, and what now? These are some of the questions Dan and Dara discuss.
#59 Digital accessibility in social media and analytics (with Ellen Cole @ Little Seed Group)
This week Dan and Dara are joined by Ellen Cole - an award-winning Marketing, PR and Social Media marketer with a focus on inclusivity and accessibility in digital. Ellen discusses their experience working with invisible differences, and how businesses large and small can make positive steps towards making their social media and marketing more inclusive for all.
#58 In the GA4 trenches (with Stacey Harper @ Sharper Digital)
This week Dan and Dara are joined by Stacey Harper, a fellow GA4 expert and trainer! They discuss war stories, hidden features and the huge importance of a migration strategy/plan for migrating to GA4. And remember, never ever push the 'UA events in GA4' button!
#57 Who you Lookering at? (with JJ Reynolds @ LookerStudio.VIP)
This week Dan and Dara are joined by JJ Reynolds to chat about the recent rebranding of Data Studio to Looker Studio and what it means for the rest of us. They share many 'hot takes' on where they think this change came from, and where they think it'll go in the future.
#56 Why GA4 means you need to get on board with BigQuery - MeasureFest (with Katie Kaczmarek @ Measurelab)
This week Dara is joined by fellow Measurelabber Katie to discuss her recent talk at MeasureFest (part of brightonSEO). Katie talks though the process of putting together her presentation and getting up and speaking in front of a croud for the very first time. They also run through the talk content around why everyone using GA4 should get onboard with BigQuery asap!
#55 BREAKING changes in the GA4 Data API
This week Dan and Dara react and discuss the recent announcement of the schema changes in the Google Analytics 4 (GA4) Data API. Are Google going backwards by (re)introducting scope compatibility, or is this what was always missing and will now help the transition from Universal Analytics?
#54 The current state of play with GA4
This week Dan and Dara reflect on the current state of play with Google Analytics 4 (GA4), with migrations being a hot topic at the moment for Measurelab. But they try to also look beyond purely the migrations, and discuss what they think might be coming around the corner for GA4 - especially when Universal Analytics (UA) is turned off in July 2023.