by Samuel Scott | Feb 20, 2025 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live in The Drum: Is Google’s MMM platform Meridian a gift to marketers or another dead end? Google has unveiled a new marketing mix modeling (MMM) platform. Can marketers afford to trust it? Can they afford not to? And what are the wider ripples of...
by Samuel Scott | Jan 13, 2025 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live in The Drum: In 2024, marketers made many bold AI predictions. Which ones came true? Sam Scott returns to mark the homework of 2024 marketing predictions in his column, The Promotion Fix. It’s an annual tradition that holds charlatans and the...
by Samuel Scott | Jul 15, 2024 | Marketing Essays
(My new column is out in The Drum.) Apple’s Vision Pro $600m failure shows the importance of market orientation Apple just learned a $600m lesson in how companies can be too product-oriented and not market-oriented enough. That is how much revenue the company will...
by Samuel Scott | Nov 2, 2023 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live in The Drum: Columnist Sam Scott offers an admittedly unusual lesson into market segmentation through the prism of Britpop. ParkLife, forget it, this is MarketingLife. We’re in the final quarter of 2023. B2B marketers are starting to review their...
by Samuel Scott | Feb 23, 2023 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live in The Drum: Digital attribution is dead! Les Binet tells us why marketers need econometrics in 2023 The Drum columnist Samuel Scott recently fell down a rabbit hole and into the world of econometrics with effectiveness expert Les Binet. Here he...