Marketers have long struggled with the simple task of knowing which marketing spend is truly effective, and how to optimize that spend. At the heart of the issue lies the challenge of ensuring the data quality and consistency exists to make decisions based on real intelligence. Why is this a problem? First, effective tracking is reliant on the consistent, complete application of campaign tracking codes and associated metadata, which has traditionally been a manual, ungoverned process.
Adding to this complexity has been the dramatic expansion of digital marketing point solutions, and the disparate teams expected to execute across each of these channels and geographies. The result is what you would expect—highly inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data that must be manually cleaned before reporting is possible.