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Performance Marketing vs Digital Marketing

These scopes overlap. The useful question is which activities and business outcomes your proposal actually includes.

Route APerformance marketing
Route BDigital marketing

Choose against the work
your business needs.

Compare the work.
Then choose the route.

A like-for-like brief makes the differences useful. Review the same requirements, responsibilities and costs on both sides.

What to comparePerformance marketingDigital marketing
FocusOften organised around acquisition, conversion and unit economics.Can cover the wider digital customer journey and the systems behind it.
InputsNeeds a credible offer, measurable actions and a useful feedback loop.Needs a clear strategy and ownership across the disciplines included.
ReportingDefine outcomes and account for attribution limits and delayed sales.Connect channel measures with the commercial role of each part of the plan.

Which fits your
current situation?

Consider

Performance marketing

You need a defined acquisition or conversion programme with measurable decision signals.

Consider

Digital marketing

You need a broader connected scope that may include content, search, websites, brand and customer communication.

Make the brief concrete

Three questions
before you decide.

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  1. 01

    What business decision will the report support?

  2. 02

    Which parts of the journey are in scope?

  3. 03

    Are we confusing a service label with a delivery plan?

Make room for
a better journey.

Share your website, target country and the next thing you want to improve. We’ll help you find a useful place to start.

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