What is the Helpful Content Update exactly? Google has confirmed that the helpful content update has been live since September 9th, following the announcement on August 25th. The new Google update specifically targets “content created primarily to rank well in search engines, rather than to help or inform people.” In …
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2023: Google Analytics 4 and the new Swiss Data Protection Act are on their way
If you are actively involved in online marketing in Switzerland, this upcoming year will bring some major changes. You should keep these two events saved in your calendars: July 1st 2023: Google will replace Universal Analytics with Google Analytics 4. September 1st 2023 the new Swiss Data Protection Act comes …
How to do Online Marketing without cookies
What is the challenge with Online Marketing at the moment? The data privacy regulations have become a lot stricter after scandals like Cambridge Analytica where Facebook data was used without consent for political advertising. Currently most platforms like Facebook, Google or LinkedIn still depend on a cookie to follow users …
Google Analytics 4: Status Update
Since our latest news on Google Analytics 4 and Data Retention in GA4 there has been a lot of developments in the world of Google Analytics. Below, you will find the most important updates and announcements by Google about their analytics tool. Google Analytics 4 can now be linked to …
Webinar Google Analytics & Data Privacy
Do you use Google Analytics? Then you certainly know that Google Analytics has recently been deemed non-compliant with data protection in the EU. The data protection authorities in Austria and France have already ruled that the use of Google Analytics violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data protection …
Amazee Metrics is now Advance Metrics
We have some exciting news to announce! Amazee Metrics is rebranding to Advance Metrics. Our CEO and co-founder Evelyn Thar has taken over the company through a management buy-out. The only thing that is changing is our company name: we are still the same team and sit in the same …
A Love Letter to Advance Metrics (as a Woman in Tech)
Gender equality and gender diversity, as fundamental as it seems, are still major topics that are and should be, perpetually discussed all around the world. Here in Switzerland, we celebrated a few anniversaries last year: 25 years of the Gender Equality Act (July 1, 1996), 30 years of the women’s …
Google BigQuery benefits for Google Analytics
What is Google BigQuery? BigQuery is Google’s data warehouse. As part of the Google Cloud Platform tool suite, BigQuery allows you to host – and exploit – large databases for a very reasonable price and with very good results. In fact, BigQuery can be used for many other things, such …
Why You Should Use Performance Max Campaigns on Google Ads
Increase Your Conversions with Automated Bidding and Targeting Cross-Channel Performance Max campaigns are the new Campaign Type in Google Ads that allow you to run a single goal-based campaign across all of the Google network properties including: Display Search Maps Discover Feed YouTube Gmail Shopping Ad Inventory This year the …
Dos and Don’ts of Sustainable Marketing
A sustainable marketing campaign is a simple and effective way to share eco-conscious aspects of your brand. However, positioning your brand as a sustainable role-model cannot happen overnight, nor through a single campaign. Marketing sustainability must be done in many little steps and requires a holistic strategy of any project …
How the GTM Server-Side Tagging Container Works
In 2020 Google released the Server-Side Container (SSC) for Google Tag Manager. While it requires significantly more technical input to implement than the Web containers we are used to, it does have some large benefits. In this post, we will look at how the SSC works. How The Server-Side Container …
4 Privacy-Compliant Alternatives to Google Analytics
We have already reported that in recent weeks several countries in the EU have deemed Google Analytics to be not privacy compliant. Since Google Analytics is used on over 50% of websites worldwide, this action by data protection authorities in the EU has caused a great deal of uncertainty among …