Brian León

Articles by Brian León

Senior Content Writer at Funnel, Brian has 10+ years of experience in marketing, journalism, content, communications and media.

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Marketing Budget

Finding your next best dollar: The question every marketer asks (but few can answer)

Every marketing team wants to answer this question: where should the next dollar go? It sounds simple, but most teams don’t have a confident answer. A...

Trends & News Data

Why Claude and ChatGPT still can't answer your marketing questions — and how an MCP fixes it

Marketing teams are using AI more than ever. But the answers still don't feel reliable. That's not a coincidence, it's a data problem. And that proble...

Measurement

Marketing measurement is becoming a system, not just a model

Marketing measurement is changing. Not because of new tools, but because marketing itself has changed. Customer journeys now span multiple channels. A...

Comparing Funnel.io with Fivetran for moving marketing data
Marketing

Funnel vs Fivetran: The best Fivetran alternative for marketing teams and agencies

TransUnion and Emarketer report that 54.1% of marketing leaders haven’t improved confidence in measurement this year. At the root of this confidence g...

Supermetrics and Funnel weighted against one another to compare data integration capabilities
Marketing

Supermetrics vs. Funnel: the best Supermetrics alternative for scaling agencies and brands

Marketing teams and agencies rely on accurate, unified data to create reports that drive confident decisions. Many teams start with a connector tool l...

Funnel vs Improvado
Marketing

Funnel vs. Improvado: can your marketing team own the platform without engineers?

Marketers today are drowning in data but starving for clarity. With dozens of data sources, metrics and formats, getting a single version of truth fee...

Marketing data integration features and how having them can impact performance
Marketing

The top Supermetrics alternatives for scaling agencies and brands (2026)

Supermetrics offers a handy way to pull channel data into Google Sheets, Data Studio and other reporting and data visualization tools. It’s a useful o...

Marketing

Adverity vs Funnel: simplify marketing data, empower every team

Are you comparing Funnel and Adverity because you need rock-solid, scalable marketing reporting? Both Funnel and Adverity help teams bring marketing d...

top mta tools
Measurement

Top multi-touch attribution (MTA) tools for 2026

Multi-touch attribution (MTA) has long been a critical tool in digital marketing, helping businesses understand how different customer touchpoints inf...

instagram ads optimization
Marketing

14 Instagram best practices to grow your audience and reach

Instagram reaches over 2 billion monthly active users, and ad spend on the platform grew 21% year-over-year in Q3 2025, according to a recent digital ...