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  "description": "Guides, tools, and evaluations for measuring marketing impact, running creator programs, and deciding where to invest next.",
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/is-all-publicity-good-publicity",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/is-all-publicity-good-publicity",
      "title": "Is All Publicity Good Publicity? What NZ Muscle's Scandal Shows",
      "summary": "NZ Muscle's searches rose almost sixfold during its 2026 scandal and were back to normal two months later. Here is what that says about branded search and bad publicity.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Dark"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Brand measurement"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/ai-marketing-agent",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/ai-marketing-agent",
      "title": "Where AI Marketing Agents Help and Where They Make Things Up",
      "summary": "AI has caught a costly ads mistake for me and has also handed me a confident conclusion that was wrong. The difference was context, and whether a person was still checking.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
        }
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        "Marketing effectiveness"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-measure-pr-and-offline-marketing",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-measure-pr-and-offline-marketing",
      "title": "How to Measure PR and Offline Marketing When You Can't Track the Click",
      "summary": "You will not get exact attribution for PR, radio or outdoor. You will get evidence, if you decide what the activity is meant to change, set a baseline and write down what moved.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
        }
      ],
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        "Marketing effectiveness"
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-measure-b2b-influencer-marketing",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-measure-b2b-influencer-marketing",
      "title": "How to Measure B2B Influencer Marketing When Deals Take Months",
      "summary": "When the buying cycle is ten months, you cannot judge a creator by sales. I judge them by what the right people do in the first quarter, and I keep the record so the deal can be traced back later.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
        }
      ],
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-attribution-software",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-attribution-software",
      "title": "How to Choose Marketing Attribution Software You Can Trust",
      "summary": "Changing attribution models won't fix bot traffic, missing customer journeys or overlapping conversion claims. Start with the evidence behind the report.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
        }
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        "Marketing effectiveness"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-campaign-brief-template",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-campaign-brief-template",
      "title": "How to Write a Better Campaign Brief, With a Free Template",
      "summary": "A campaign brief should explain what the business needs, how you'll measure progress and what would make you change course. Use these templates before launch and at review.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
        }
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-measure-brand-awareness",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-measure-brand-awareness",
      "title": "How to Measure Brand Awareness on a Small Budget",
      "summary": "Start with branded search and customer feedback, then look at what happens to inquiries, signups and sales. A practical approach to brand measurement for a small marketing team.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
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          "name": "Zac"
        }
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    },
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      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-planning-software",
      "title": "Marketing Planning Software: What You Need Beyond Task Management",
      "summary": "Your project board tells you who’s doing what. Your marketing plan needs to explain why, track whether it works and leave the next team something useful. Here’s what to look for.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
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          "name": "Zac"
        }
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-much-to-pay-influencers",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-much-to-pay-influencers",
      "title": "How Much Should You Pay Influencers? Rates, Rights and Real Value",
      "summary": "I’ve paid creators for tutorials, worked with tiny communities that brought in loyal customers, and been caught by unexpected usage costs. Here’s how I decide what a partnership is worth.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
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          "name": "Zac"
        }
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        "Creator programs"
      ]
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      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-to-choose-influencer-marketing-platform",
      "title": "How to Choose an Influencer Marketing Platform",
      "summary": "I evaluated dozens of influencer tools and kept finding the same problem: expensive workflows, with the reporting I actually needed sold separately. Here’s how I’d choose.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
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        "Creator programs"
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/share-of-search",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/share-of-search",
      "title": "Share of Search: What It Measures, How to Calculate It, and When to Trust It",
      "summary": "A practical guide to the formula, term and competitor definitions, data-source trade-offs, confounders, and decisions behind Share of Search.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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        "Brand measurement"
      ]
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      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/brand-measurement",
      "title": "Brand Measurement: Metrics, Methods and Tools for Better Decisions",
      "summary": "A decision-first framework for combining brand health, Share of Search, HDYHAU, experiments, and business outcomes.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
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        "Brand measurement"
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/brand-tracking-tools",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/brand-tracking-tools",
      "title": "Best Brand Tracking Tools and Software by Measurement Method",
      "summary": "A transparent buyer's guide to survey trackers, brand-lift studies, social listening, search demand, research suites, and marketing intelligence.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
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        }
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/supermetrics-alternatives",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/supermetrics-alternatives",
      "title": "Best Supermetrics Alternatives for Marketing Measurement in 2026",
      "summary": "Six Supermetrics alternatives matched to the job they actually perform, from low-cost connectors and governed data hubs to client reporting and marketing intelligence.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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        "Marketing effectiveness"
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      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-dashboard-reporting-software",
      "title": "Best Marketing Dashboard and Reporting Software for Cross-Channel Measurement",
      "summary": "A buyer's guide to dashboards, client reporting, connectors, BI, and marketing intelligence, with current pricing and a proof-of-concept scorecard.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
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          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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        "Marketing effectiveness"
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-campaign-tracker-template",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/marketing-campaign-tracker-template",
      "title": "Free Marketing Campaign Tracker Template (Excel and Google Sheets)",
      "summary": "A formula-driven XLSX tracker for campaign plans, activities, costs, outcomes, direct evidence, brand signals, and the decision that follows.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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        "Marketing effectiveness"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/track-marketing-with-promo-codes-and-utm-links",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/track-marketing-with-promo-codes-and-utm-links",
      "title": "How to Track Influencer Sales with Promo Codes and UTM Links in GA4",
      "summary": "Give every creator, podcast, and placement its own promo code and tagged link, get the data flowing into GA4, and connect each signal back to the marketing that produced it.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z",
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      "authors": [
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          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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        "Creator marketing measurement"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/grin-alternatives",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/grin-alternatives",
      "title": "Best GRIN Alternatives for Creator Marketing Teams in 2026",
      "summary": "Six GRIN alternatives compared by the job they do best, from focused measurement to discovery, payments, ecommerce workflows, and enterprise program management.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Creator programs"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-did-you-hear-about-us-ga4",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/how-did-you-hear-about-us-ga4",
      "title": "How to Track “How Did You Hear About Us?” in GA4",
      "summary": "A practical guide to collecting self-reported discovery data, sending it to GA4 through Google Tag Manager, and reading it beside creator performance in Brandwave.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "Marketing effectiveness"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/air-creator-partnerships",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/air-creator-partnerships",
      "title": "What Air Gets Right About Creator Partnerships",
      "summary": "Air gives creators enough room to make work that still feels like theirs. Here is what B2B marketers can take from its partnerships without copying the surface-level tactics.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
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          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/vs-stack-influence",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/vs-stack-influence",
      "title": "Stack Influence Reviews, Pricing and Alternatives for Brands",
      "summary": "What Stack Influence costs, what its customers say, and where it fits. A sourced review for brands weighing managed micro-influencer campaigns against measurement software.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "Creator programs"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/best-agencyanalytics-alternatives",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/best-agencyanalytics-alternatives",
      "title": "Best AgencyAnalytics Alternatives for Influencer and Creator Reporting",
      "summary": "What AgencyAnalytics customers complain about on G2, what it cannot track, and six alternatives ranked by buyer context, with verified pricing.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Creator marketing measurement"
      ]
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      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/grin-pricing",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/grin-pricing",
      "title": "GRIN Pricing: Plans, Costs and Alternatives for Creator Marketing Teams",
      "summary": "GRIN now publishes month-to-month pricing from free to $1,500/month, built around AI credits. Here is what each plan includes, what still is not disclosed, and how the alternatives compare.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Creator programs"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/influencer-marketing-roi",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/influencer-marketing-roi",
      "title": "Influencer Marketing ROI Without Inventing Attribution",
      "summary": "Google Ads appeared to be driving our signups. Then customers told us they’d heard about us on the radio. Here’s how that changed the way I measure creator programs and decide where to invest.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Creator marketing measurement"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/influencer-marketing-measurement",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/influencer-marketing-measurement",
      "title": "Influencer Marketing Measurement: Framework, Metrics and Tools",
      "summary": "Measurement is a system, not a report. This hub connects creators, activities, costs, and outcomes, defines the metrics with official platform sources, and links every deep dive.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "The Brandwave team"
        }
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        "Creator marketing measurement"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/influencer-marketing-dashboard",
      "url": "https://gobrandwave.com/blog/influencer-marketing-dashboard",
      "title": "Influencer Marketing Dashboard: Examples and a Free Template",
      "summary": "I want a creator dashboard to help me make the next investment decision, not just report numbers. Here’s what I show leadership, how I compare creators, and why the obvious winner can be misleading.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Zac"
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