Google Analytics 4 news roundup July 2023

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It’s been a huge month in the world of Analytics. After 12 years together, marketers had to say goodbye to Universal Analytics. And they’re not happy. Read all about why (plus some other recent news) in this article. Google Analytics 4 is the default analytics tool and marketers are not happy Here’s a rundown of […]

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How to Connect LinkedIn to Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio) for Free

How to connect data studio to linkedin

In this article we show you how to connect Linkedin for free to a Google Looker Studio report.  This is extremely useful because as you probably noticed already, LinkedIn’s native reporting lacks views and charts you’d like to see. It’s hard to explore trends across dates or even view multiple metrics at once. The whole […]

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Report Publishing & Draft Mode – How to use these new Google Data Studio Features

In early 2021, Google Data Studio released a new feature called ‘Draft Mode’, and it’s incredibly smart. In fact, you’ll wish all your web tools had a feature like this. It’s called Report Publishing. So what is it, and why is it so helpful? Live by Default Traditionally, Data Studio reports are always live, at […]

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What the Data Tells us About Netflix

netflix data in data studio

Have you ever wondered just how much variety Netflix has? Or what the experience might be like in another country? Thanks to Kaggle.com, we were able to pull the data into Google Data Studio and create multiple charts, filters, and visualizations to help explore Netflix’s catalog.  In this post, we’re going to explore how you […]

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The Best Looker Studio Templates in 2024

the best looker studio templates and dashboards

Digital marketers love Google Looker Studio. It has become one of the most popular analytics reporting and dashboarding platforms in the digital marketing community. While Looker Studio is fairly easy to get started, it can still take significant time and resources to build state-of-the-art dashboards. This is where Looker Studio templates come into play. Templates […]

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June GDS Updates – New Home Dashboard & More

If you use Data Studio, there are two new features that you might be interested in knowing about! Multiple Dimensions on Pivot Tables Up until this point, you could only add two Dimensions to a pivot table. For example, below we have our two dimensions as Country and Device Category. A new feature is being […]

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June 2019 Google Data Studio Update – Improved Charts & Line Functionality

There have been several new features launched for Google Data Studio in June 2019. I’ll give you a breakdown of what these are and how you could use them to improve your Data Studio reporting! 1. Improved method of adding charts to a report This is a subtle but significant improvement to the way Users […]

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What’s new in Google Data Studio (February 2019)?

Google Data Studio has powerful features which make it a compelling alternative to other established platforms.  In a recent article we compared these differences and made a case for GDS.   GDS has come out with a slew of new updates over the past months which has made it even better In this post, we’ll talk […]

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