Ten years ago, the vision for marketing analytics seemed bright.
Marketers saw a world where they could connect their online and offline media investments to all their digital outcomes across channels. They could stitch the data together for a comprehensive view and model against it to understand the effect of incremental changes.
The reality was bleaker.
In 2025, best-in-class marketers still spend too much time checking multiple data sources to make interim decisions. A better solution — one that pulls everything together — has yet to reveal itself.
Will AI play a role in creating a simpler process? How should you approach your marketing analytics and advertising investments today?
Suraj Rajdev, Google’s head of data measurement and analytics for home and consumer services, has some thoughts. And you don’t need to be a data nerd to understand them.
Watch the video (above) of Suraj’s presentation, AI and Marketing: Measurement and Analytics in a Privacy-First World, delivered at the recent Marketing Analytics and Data Science conference.
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