As marketers adapt to new data privacy changes, the industry looks for new, more holistic and integrated ways to report metrics and customer interactions.
July 19, 2022

As marketers adapt to new data privacy changes, the industry looks for new, more holistic and integrated ways to report metrics and customer interactions. What marketers are looking at now is something called MER, otherwise known as "marketing effectiveness ratio." But what is it?

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