Digital marketing, from A to Z.
The vocabulary of creative, media and data, explained in plain language. No jargon left unexplained, no buzzword left standing.
A/B Testing
Comparing two versions of an ad, page or email to learn which one actually performs better.
Agentic Advertising
The use of autonomous AI agents to handle repetitive advertising tasks so specialists can focus on strategy and creative.
Attribution
The method of deciding which touchpoints get credit for a conversion.
Audience Segmentation
Dividing a market into groups that share needs or behaviour, so message and media can match each group.
Benchmark
A reference point that tells you whether a result is good, bad or just average for your market.
Brand Awareness
The degree to which a market knows a brand exists and recalls it when a need appears.
Brand Lift
The measurable increase in awareness, consideration or preference that a campaign creates for a brand.
Brand Safety
Keeping a brand's ads out of contexts that would damage its reputation.
Community Management
Running a brand's social conversations so the audience stays engaged between campaigns.
Connected TV (CTV)
Television content streamed over the internet, bought and measured like digital media.
Conversion API (CAPI)
A server to server connection that sends conversion data to ad platforms when browser tracking cannot.
Conversion Tracking
The setup that records what people do after the click, from first visit to final sale.
Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)
What one new customer or conversion costs in media spend.
CPM
Cost per thousand impressions, the price of reach in an auction.
Creative Fatigue
The drop in performance when an audience has seen the same creative too many times.
CTR
Click through rate, the share of people who click after seeing an ad or result.
Customer Journey
The path a person travels from first hearing about a brand to buying and returning.
Demand Gen
A Google campaign type that creates demand across YouTube, Discover and Gmail instead of waiting for a search.
Display Advertising
Visual banner ads bought across websites and apps, mostly through programmatic channels.
DOOH
Digital out of home, screens in public spaces bought programmatically like any other digital channel.
Earned Media
Visibility a brand receives without paying for it: mentions, shares, reviews, press.
Engagement Rate
The share of an audience that interacts with a piece of content.
First Party Data
Data a brand collects directly from its own audience, with consent, on its own channels.
Fragmentation
The hidden cost of splitting strategy, creative, media and data across separate agencies and tools.
Frequency
How many times the same person sees an ad within a period.
Full Funnel
A strategy that covers every stage of the journey, from first attention to final acquisition.
GA4
Google Analytics 4, the analytics platform that follows the journey from first session to final sale.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Optimising a brand's visibility in AI answers on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI results.
Geotargeting
Serving ads based on where people are: country, city, radius or place.
Hook
The first seconds of a piece of content, where attention is won or lost.
Impression Share
The share of available impressions your ads actually captured.
Incrementality
The share of conversions that would not have happened without your campaign.
Influence Marketing
Working with creators to turn word of mouth into a predictable, scalable channel.
KPI
Key performance indicator, the number that tells you whether the work is working.
Landing Page
The page an ad click arrives on, where attention either converts or evaporates.
Last Click Attribution
An attribution model that gives all credit for a conversion to the final click before it.
Lookalike Audience
An audience of new people who statistically resemble your existing customers.
Media Mix Modelling (MMM)
A statistical method that measures each channel's real contribution to sales, beyond tracking and cookies.
Media Plan
The blueprint of where, when and how a budget buys attention across channels.
Nano and Micro Influencers
Creators with small, highly engaged audiences whose recommendations carry deep trust.
Native Advertising
Paid content that adopts the form and feel of the platform it appears on.
Omnichannel
One continuous brand experience across every channel, online and offline.
Organic Reach
The people your content reaches without paid amplification.
Out of Home (OOH)
Advertising in physical public space: billboards, transit, street furniture.
Paid Social
Advertising on social platforms such as Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat and LinkedIn.
Performance Max
Google's automated campaign type that buys across Search, YouTube, Display, Discover, Gmail and Maps from one campaign.
Pixel
A snippet of code that reports site behaviour back to an ad platform.
Programmatic Advertising
Automated buying of digital ad space in real time, across display, video, audio, CTV and DOOH.
Quality Score
Google's rating of how relevant your ads, keywords and landing pages are.
Reach
The number of different people who saw a campaign at least once.
Retail Media
Advertising inside retailer platforms and marketplaces, close to the moment of purchase.
Retargeting
Advertising aimed at people who already visited or interacted with a brand.
ROAS
Return on ad spend, the revenue generated for every euro invested in advertising.
SEA
Search engine advertising, paid ads on Google and Bing that capture existing intent.
SEO
Search engine optimisation, earning visibility in organic results and, increasingly, in AI answers.
Server Side Tracking
Measurement that routes data through your own server instead of relying on the browser alone.
Share of Voice
Your brand's share of the category's total visibility and conversation.
Social Commerce
Selling directly inside social platforms, from discovery to checkout.
Social First Content
Content designed for the platform and feed it lives in, not adapted from elsewhere.
Targeting
Deciding who sees an ad, through data, context and creative.
Third Party Cookies
Cross site tracking cookies set by domains other than the one you are visiting, now fading away.
UGC
User generated content, real people creating content that feels native to the feed.
Viewability
Whether an ad impression was actually on screen long enough to be seen.
Word of Mouth
Customers recommending a brand to each other, the oldest and most trusted channel.
Zero Party Data
Information customers share with a brand deliberately: preferences, intentions, needs.
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