Fixing the Game Podcast by Luke

#1 Understanding and Interpreting Your Digital Analytics, GA4 and others with Andrew Hood

April 15, 2024 Luke Szkudlarek
#1 Understanding and Interpreting Your Digital Analytics, GA4 and others with Andrew Hood
Fixing the Game Podcast by Luke
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Fixing the Game Podcast by Luke
#1 Understanding and Interpreting Your Digital Analytics, GA4 and others with Andrew Hood
Apr 15, 2024
Luke Szkudlarek

My first ever episode is a conversation with my dear friend Andrew Hood. He's a digital analytics expert with hands on technical experience and high commercial awareness. I met on my first stop in the UK in 2005 and I've always admired how he can break down complex businesses to the fundamental business terms. 

In this episode we'll learn how to approach data analytics if you're not a data scientist or analyst. My aim with this episode is to show that it doesn't have to be that complicated and demonstrate how important it is to understand and interpret your own data.  

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My first ever episode is a conversation with my dear friend Andrew Hood. He's a digital analytics expert with hands on technical experience and high commercial awareness. I met on my first stop in the UK in 2005 and I've always admired how he can break down complex businesses to the fundamental business terms. 

In this episode we'll learn how to approach data analytics if you're not a data scientist or analyst. My aim with this episode is to show that it doesn't have to be that complicated and demonstrate how important it is to understand and interpret your own data.  

Building a digital consultancy and Andrew's story
Fundamental skills for everyone - Asking good questions
Discovering the right KPIs & questions - measurement framework
Where to start with data measurement
Digital analytics stack for smaller companies & typical challenges
Examples - Where to start with with analytics
Do you need a data scientist? How much skills you need to have?
3 methods to measure brand awareness
Creative & surprising data applications examples
Obvious things you need to do with your data that most businesses don't
Overhyped trends in data analytics
Combating the shortcomings of Google PMAX & Meta Advantage+
Cracks and limitations of Google's and meta's setup
Andrew's theories on GA4 rollout and outlook
Benefits of GA4
Systematic curiosity & daily digital analytics routines for growth
Example of simplest use of data with the largest impact