Lauren Brooks
Lifecycle Marketing Strategist
Lauren Brooks is a lifecycle marketing strategist with 4+ years of experience helping SaaS businesses create meaningful customer experiences. She specializes in user engagement, retention, and conversion optimization, helping brands build stronger customer relationships beyond acquisition.
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Cookie deprecation impact on ad tracking: What still works in 2026
Third-party cookies were supposed to disappear from Chrome. That did not happen. What happened instead is more complicated. Safari already blocks third-party cookies, Firefox partitions cross-site cookies, Chrome still lets users control third-party cookies, and privacy settings, consent choices, ad blockers, and browser storage rules all affect which advertising signals remain observable. The practical result […]
Lead attribution: Models, tracking & how it works
Getting a lead is easy to record. Knowing which marketing interactions actually created or influenced that lead is much harder. A CRM might label the source as Google Ads, yet the same person may have first discovered you on LinkedIn, read an organic article, attended a webinar, returned through search, and only then requested a […]
U-shaped attribution model: The 40/20/40 guide
In most customer journeys, the beginning gets attention, the ending gets credit, and everything in between becomes a blur. The U-shaped attribution model turns that pattern into a measurable framework. Also known as position-based attribution, it assigns 40% of the conversion credit to the first touchpoint and 40% to the final touchpoint. The remaining 20% […]
Cookie apocalypse: What it means for your marketing strategy
For years, third-party cookies helped marketers track users across websites, personalize advertising, and measure campaign performance. Today, that approach is rapidly changing. Privacy regulations, browser restrictions, and growing consumer expectations have transformed how businesses collect and use customer data. This industry-wide shift is often called the cookie apocalypse, the gradual decline of third-party cookies and […]
The attribution checklist you shouldn’t skip
You’ve been there. It’s Monday morning. Campaign dashboards are open, ad platforms show glowing results, but when you try to piece it all together, the story doesn’t quite add up. Which channel did it? Was it your retargeting ad? The influencer campaign? Or that new email series you launched last week? That’s the moment every […]
How email signatures create an attribution blind spot (how to fix it)
Marketing teams spend countless hours improving attribution accuracy. They compare attribution models, fix tracking discrepancies, add UTM parameters, and optimize conversion paths. Yet one marketing touchpoint often goes completely unnoticed. Every day, employees send hundreds or even thousands of emails containing links back to your website. Prospects click those links from conversations with sales representatives, […]
iOS attribution in 2026: A practical guide for marketers
iOS attribution has become one of the hardest parts of mobile marketing in 2026. Spend on Apple ads keeps rising while reports from Apple, Meta, and Google rarely agree. Apple’s privacy updates removed the simple path from click to install that cookies and pixels once gave you. Now App Tracking Transparency (ATT), IDFA limits, SKAdNetwork […]
18 best SaaS marketing agencies for growth in 2026
A typical SaaS buying journey has nothing to do with the classic seven touches. Today, the environment is so crowded that you need to build trust, stay visible across multiple channels, and show up everywhere your buyers are researching. Most SaaS teams do not have the resources or specialist depth to do all of this […]
The biggest analytics implementation mistakes companies make
Every company wants better data. But better data does not come from adding another dashboard, tracking every possible event, or giving the data team a long list of reports to build. That is where many analytics implementation projects start to go wrong. The tool may be powerful. The data may be there. The team may […]