Although we should have taken a break after finally launching the new improved user interface last week we got stuck right back into it! Check out the new features and enhancements we released this week as well as the respective screen shots below.

There seems to be an increased buzz around cross-channel media attribution from many vendors lately and although we posted on the subject of attribution before we never really got into the nuts and bolts of the different platform options so here you go.

Check out the below slides we recently pulled together for one of our clients - the 1st part is a recap on cross-channel media attribution best practice in case you're new to the topic but the 2nd part goes into the detailed pros and cons of the various different technology platforms we've had experience with.

• Google Analytics multi-channel funnels
• Adobe SiteCatalyst Cross-Visit Participation JavaScript plugin, Light Server Calls and DoubleClick/Mediamind Genesis integration
• Atlas, Mediamind and DoubleClick ad server based purchase path tracking plus custom media attribution modelling
• Specialised ClearSaleing media attribution platform and out-of-the-box reports

Finally, it's important to make a distinction between media attribution and purchase path tracking, one is necessary to enable the other but they are not the same. Tracking the complete purchase path, i.e. every paid and organic campaign touch point leading up to a conversion is a necessary requirement to be able to actually do media attribution or the allocation or conversion credits back to those touch points. The purchase path tracking is the data collection if you so want and the media attribution the actual analysis or modelling part - given attribution modeling is only as good as the underlying data the below slides are focusing manly on the data collection aspects of the different options.

Have you seen our SuperTag tag management platform yet? If not, check out the below screen shots. We think it looks much better now with the brand new re-designed user interface (based on the Twitter Bootstrap framework).

Apart from improving overall usability and design, the whole front-end was actually re-vamped which you can't actually see but lead to a significantly improvement in performance - the app is really snappy now. Contact us for a demo if you think your company could benefit from a container tag!

Below are yesterday's slides from the Competitive Intelligence presentation at the Online Marketer conference in Melbourne.

We used the recent grounding of the Qantas fleet as an example to showcase some of the free (and paid) online tools that can be used to collect competitive intelligence - in our example, insights informing a Virgin campaign designed to poach Qantas customers.

Check out the tools we used and please leave a comment on this post if you know of any other great competitive intelligence tools!