Marketing & Advertising Glossary
From CPM to programmatic, every term in advertising and media buying explained in plain English.
Content Calendar
Content CalendarsA strategic planning tool that organizes and schedules content across social media channels, ensuring consistent posting and aligned messaging.
Content Cluster
Blog ContentA content cluster is a group of related blog posts and pages organised around a central pillar topic, improving SEO and user experience through strategic intern
Content Decay
Blog ContentThe gradual decline in performance and relevance of blog content over time, reducing its ability to drive traffic, engagement, and conversions.
Content Distribution
Content & CopyThe strategic process of delivering content across multiple channels and platforms to reach your target audience effectively and maximise engagement.
Content Gap Analysis
Content & CopyA systematic audit identifying missing topics, formats, or audience segments in your existing content strategy to improve reach and SEO performance.
Content Pillars
Content CalendarsCore themes or topics that form the foundation of your content strategy, ensuring consistent messaging across social media channels throughout the year.
Content Repurposing
Content & CopyTransforming a single piece of content into multiple formats for different channels and audiences, maximising reach and ROI from your creative investment.
Content Strategy
Content & CopyA planned approach to creating, publishing, and managing content that aligns with business goals and audience needs across multiple channels.
Content Velocity
Blog ContentThe rate at which you publish and distribute content across channels. Higher velocity means more frequent posts, driving greater audience engagement and algorit
Cost Per ThruPlay
Social MediaA video advertising metric where you pay only when viewers watch a video to completion or for 10 seconds, whichever comes first.
Crawl Budget
Technical SEOCrawl budget is the number of pages search engines will crawl on your site within a given timeframe. Optimising it ensures important pages get indexed.
Crawl Depth
Technical SEOCrawl depth measures how far into a website's structure search engine bots can navigate before resources are exhausted or links become inaccessible.
Creative Brief
Campaign ArtworkA strategic document that outlines campaign objectives, target audience, messaging, and creative direction to guide designers and copywriters in developing mark
Creative Concept
Campaign ArtworkThe overarching creative idea that guides all visual and messaging elements of a marketing campaign, ensuring consistency across channels.
Creative Fatigue Score
Social MediaA metric measuring how worn-out audiences become with repeated exposure to the same creative assets, leading to declining engagement on social platforms.
Creator Economy
Social MediaThe creator economy describes independent content creators who monetise their audiences directly through sponsorships, subscriptions, and branded partnerships,
Custom Conversion (Meta)
Meta AdsA Meta Ads feature that tracks specific user actions beyond standard events, enabling precise measurement of campaign performance against your unique business g
DPI vs PPI
Campaign ArtworkDPI and PPI measure image resolution differently: DPI (dots per inch) applies to print output, while PPI (pixels per inch) describes digital displays.
Dark Post
Social MediaA social media ad or post created for advertising purposes only, not shared to your organic feed. Visible only to targeted audiences.
Dark Social
Social MediaTraffic and engagement that occurs outside trackable social channels, including direct messaging, email shares, and word-of-mouth. Represents a significant blin
Deliverability Score
Email CampaignsA metric measuring the likelihood of your marketing emails reaching recipients' inboxes rather than spam folders, based on sender reputation and technical facto
Design System
Brand IdentityA comprehensive set of standardized design rules, components, and guidelines that ensure visual consistency across all brand touchpoints and marketing materials
Disavow File
On-Page SEOA file submitted to Google Search Console telling Google which backlinks you don't want counted towards your site's ranking.
Domain Authority
On-Page SEODomain Authority is a search engine ranking metric predicting how well a website will rank on Google. Higher DA scores indicate stronger SEO performance and cre
Drip Campaign
Email CampaignsA series of automated emails sent to subscribers over time on a predetermined schedule, designed to nurture leads and guide them through the customer journey.
Dynamic Content Personalisation
Content & CopyTechnology that automatically adapts website content, email messages and ads to individual users based on their behaviour, preferences and data, delivering uniq
E-E-A-T
Answer Engine OptimisationE-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) is Google's quality framework for evaluating content credibility and ranking authority.
E164
SEO, AEO & SearchE.164 is the international telephone numbering standard defined by the ITU-T that assigns every phone number a globally unique numeric identifier of up to 15 digits, always prefixed with a …
Editorial Guidelines
Content & CopyStandards and rules that govern the style, tone, and content of written material produced for media campaigns, brands, or publications.
Email Campaign
Email CampaignsA coordinated series of marketing emails sent to a targeted audience to achieve specific business objectives like lead generation, customer retention, or produc