Brand marketing vs performance marketing. One of the classic contests of our industry; a debate that causes heated exchanges and biased arguments. Recently, the prevailing sentiment has been anti-performance. Especially after iOS14, the Facebook outage, and reports that behemoths like Uber and Airbnb switched off a big chunk of performance spend with zero to little impact, performance marketing’s impact is being questioned. The great Rand Fishkin went as far as to wonder whether it’s an “analytics scam”.
