marketing measurement
Vanaxity insights tagged marketing measurement - notes on AI content, SEO, GEO and AEO from Van Data Team.
Marketing Agency Acquisition: What Clients Should Protect
Marketing M&A is accelerating, with LUMA Partners counting 469 ad tech and marketing deals in 2025, up 13%, alongside giant moves like Omnicom's $13 billion purchase of Interpublic and Adobe's $1.9 billion deal for Semrush, and while a new owner can bring better tools and specialists, clients feel an acquisition through changed teams, reporting, and priorities, so the practical response is to protect account knowledge, keep your own copies of data and history, compare results before and after, and write change-of-control protections into agency contracts.
The AI Marketing ROI Gap: Adoption Up, Proof Missing
The AI marketing ROI gap is the distance between near-universal AI adoption and the small share of marketing leaders who can prove it returns anything, with surveys showing 90% of organizations raised AI marketing investment while only 16% feel confident defending it to the board and 12% can isolate AI's real revenue impact, so the problem isn't efficiency but proof, and closing it takes measurement discipline, controlled tests, and cost-per-outcome accounting rather than a more powerful tool.