by Samuel Scott | Aug 11, 2025 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live in The Drum: Barb will use human panels to measure YouTube. Now, what about the rest of the web? The Promotion Fix’s Samuel Scott believes putting humans back into the heart of measurement is important to help combat fraud. The column is inspired...
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 | Sep 6, 2024 | Marketing Essays
My new column is out in The Drum: My Oasis ticket journey proves marketers are half the world away on attribution The Promotion Fix columnist Samuel Scott spent a full day getting Oasis tickets. With all that spare time, he theorized how marketers could wrongly chart...
by Samuel Scott | Jul 22, 2024 | Marketing Essays
Business events are back! After 4.5 years, I’m seeing more and more private events and conferences. And speaking inquiries. So, I have a new reel. I hate the cliché, but feel free to “like,” comment, and share on YouTube. And here are my new, general...
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...