The Digital Marketing Podcast

There has never been a more important time to be thinking about innovation as when things in the digital marketing world are moving so quickly. In order to quickly adapt to change and avoid it being disruptive, innovation should be built in and implemented into your organisation. Listen in to today’s podcast to learn how to go about building innovation into your culture and how design thinking can help you solve problems by putting consumer’s needs first.

Handling over 90% of searches, Google undoubtably dominates the search engine market and is consistently a hot topic in the world of digital marketing. However, today, let’s talk about Bing… With 900 million searches a day, Bing is often overlooked when it shouldn’t be. In this episode, Daniel, Ciaran and Louise discuss why they think people shouldn’t forget about it’s family of tools; Bing Ads, Bing Places, Microsoft Clarity and more.

Today Ciaran is joined by CEO and Founder of Enchant Email Marketing Agency, Philip Storey, about why email is as important as ever in 2023 why brands should consider focusing their time and resources into this channel. Philip talks about how we can go about supercharging our emails - where to start, getting practical and bringing 'planning' and 'execution' together as one to bring ideas to fruition. In this episode we also bring you 16 tools that will help you with your email marketing efforts.

In 2022, Google revealed that you weren’t allowed AI generated content on your website. However, in February 2023, Google announced that ‘high-quality content is high-quality content’ and they’re focusing on quality rather than how the content is produced. In this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast, the team discuss some of their favourite SEO and AI tools to help your content cut above the noise, as well as the findings of a new report on AI training data.

The GOST framework is a model for goal setting, that is split into four components; goals, objectives, strategy and tactics. However, there can be a lot of confusion between on how the components differ and how to work GOST into your marketing plan. In this episode of the digital marketing podcast, the team define each of the four core components as well as give examples of how they would be used in practice to help achieve your overall business objectives.

With AI reshaping the content marketing landscape, the bar has been pushed even higher to create engaging content that stands out from competitors and makes an impact on their audiences. Join us in this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast where we discuss how to develop effective content plans, from researching ideas through to creating a working calendar for content marketing success.

We are back with a Digital Marketing Trends Update for April 2023, and what trends update would it be without AI? In this episode, the team run through some of the latest Google updates, why you shouldn’t forget about Bing, and some of the latest AI tools to assist you in your marketing efforts. We have also launched our latest version of the Digital Marketing Toolkit which you can download today.

In today's episode, Ciaran is joined by Ben Salmon from We Are Crank, a B2B growth agency focused on measurement and data-driven marketing. Ben talks Ciaran through paid search, conversion rates, joining together online and offline data and how to go about building a culture of measurement within your organisation. Ben's book, (Getting a grip on Data and Measurement to accelerate your Direct to Consumer ecommerce sales) is one of Ciaran's favourites and is a detailed view on what you should be measuring, how you should be measuring it, and how youcan successfully grow your digital business.

91% of businesses now use video as a marketing tool, and 92% of video marketers reported that it gives them a positive ROI. However, the more video content that surfaces the harder it is to get your content to stand out from the crowd. In this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast, Daniel, Ciaran and Louise discuss different elements that contribute towards running an effective YouTube channel. The team also unveil our new branding that we have been working on over the past few months, developed with branding and creative agency Wildish and Co, which is now live across all of our channels! We’d love to hear what you think.

In today’s episode of The Digital Marketing Podcast, Daniel, Ciaran and Louise discuss the latest trends in Digital Marketing for March 2023. Needless to say Chat GPT has created a storm in the world of digital marketing, and Bing and Google weren’t far behind. In amongst Chat GPT and Bing, is the new Meta Verified membership, which entitles users to a verified badge, impersonation monitoring, prioritisation in comments and more. Other trends discussed include GA4 setup, Twitter blue badge and SEO issues. We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please

In today's episode of The Digital Marketing Podcast, Ciaran speaks to Ben Heath, CEO of Lead Guru, a UK based meta advertising agency that helps business owners, entreprenuers and marketers take their campaigns to the next level. In this insightful interivew Ciaran and Ben discuss Facebook privacy changes, the decline of organic reach and top targeting techniques.

In this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast, the team delve into Google Web Stories, which are a web-based version of the popular story format. The stories are discoverable through Google Search and the Google App, which can be downloaded via iOS and Android. You can also embed them into your own web pages. Daniel, Ciaran and Louise also explore YouTube’s latest Culture and Trends report, giving some interesting insights into the most notable creators and trends driving video culture.

https://targetinternet.com/resources/alternatives-to-google-analyticsOn 1st July 2023, Google are sunsetting their infamous Universal Analytics and making GA4 the new default, a big move for the 28.1 million websites that use Google Analytics. In light of the change, some users might be researching for other analytics software available. In this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast, Daniel, Ciaran and Louise their five favourite alternatives to Google Analytics to match your analytics goals, to help you decide which software is right for you. We also have a on these analytics alternatives.

Marketing funnels outline the journey that customers take on their path to purchase, and is a framework that helps yo to consider how to engage with your customers along the different stages of their journey. In this episode of the Digital Marketing podcast, the team discuss the stages of the funnel, confusion at the top and how you can use it together with a user journey map to connect with customers.

Social media can mean very different things to different people based on factors such as their interests, their lifestyle – and often their age. Although overall social media usage has changed dramatically post-covid, there are still large demographical differences between the way users behave online which can help marketers make important decisions when deciding on their social media strategy. You can also check out our We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please

Building community is an extremely effective, but overlooked marketing strategy, as it focuses on establishing real connections with your audience. Building relationships with your users shows how committed you are to understanding their needs, earning their loyalty and trust and can help to improve customer retention. In this podcast episode, Daniel, Ciaran and Louise discuss why it’s important to engage in community building and the different places that community can live. We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please

It is without a doubt that AI is becoming more and more advanced and with AI tools, marketers can automate certain cognitive tasks to help them streamline workflows. With AI assisting in the more repetitive admin tasks, we can spend more time on work that work that requires higher level of attentional and emotional input. In this episode of The Digital Marketing Podcast, the team guide you through a range of useful AI tools, inspired by Get Inference's , a toolkit of all the latest AI tools, all in one place and updated daily. We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please

You might briefly remember Daniel and Ciaran discussing a content sharing tool last year that was so powerful, they were reluctant to tell you about it. Well, that tool is QUUU Promote and on this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast, co-founders Matt and Daniel talk to Ciaran about social signals, the tool and how it helped supercharge our reach for the podcast. After 8 years of helping promote blogs for social media, Matt and Daniel also advise on what makes content more sharable and really understanding your audience, what they are actually looking for and what problem you are trying to solve. We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please

Happy New Year and welcome back to The Digital Marketing Podcast. It’s the beginning of a fresh year. Usually with this comes New Years Resolutions and we’ve decided to put together our digital marketing resolutions to help you feel prepared for the year ahead. From revising and repurposing successful content, planning customer research and taking a step back to look at OKRs, listen in to this episode for our key themes to focus on throughout the year. We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please

From core Google updates and Google Analytics 4, to enhancemencts in artificial intelligence and emphasis on brand, 2022 has been a non-stop year in the world of digital marketing. In this episode of the Digital Marketing Podcast, Daniel, Ciaran and Louise bring you a 2022 wrapped-up episode, reflecting on and discussing the biggest trends in digital marketing this year. We hope you love the show! If you have any feedback, please and let us know. And, if you are really enjoying the show, please