Christopher Van Mossevelde

Articles by Christopher Van Mossevelde

Head of Content at Funnel, Chris has 20+ years of experience in marketing and communications.

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Marketing

What brand salience really means (and why it matters)

You’re in an unfamiliar city, desperate for a morning coffee. What brand pops into your head first? Probably Starbucks. That moment when a brand insta...

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Reporting

5 of the best marketing report examples

Effective reporting isn’t just nice to have. It’s the backbone of every successful marketing strategy. It’s how you pinpoint what’s working, spot oppo...

Media planning connects audience and channels for maximum marketing impact
Marketing

What is media planning, and why is it so hard?

Imagine throwing away $123.1 million. That’s how much digital advertisers wasted in just three months, according to Next&Co’s Q2 2024 audit. On av...

Build custom MMM with open-source tools
Measurement

What you need to know about open-source marketing mix modeling

Every marketer wants to know one thing: what is the true impact of my advertising spend? Marketing mix modeling (MMM) promises to deliver the answer. ...

Best practices to improve media planning
Marketing

Looking at your media plan as a financial portfolio

A strong media plan gives you clarity and direction. Think of it like investing. You wouldn’t throw all your money at a handful of stocks and walk awa...

Overlapping circles labeled marketing and finance, showing shared alignment
Marketing

How marketing and finance can break down data silos for faster growth

Marketing and finance don’t wake up each day looking for a fight. But when campaign launches get delayed by budget approvals or finance challenges the...

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Marketing

What marketers can learn about blending data from intelligence agencies

Picture an analyst deep inside a government intelligence bunker. Screens flicker with satellite images, intercepted messages, market reports and agent...

CFO-CMO collaboration boosts business growth
Leadership

Crack the code on cross-functional leadership that aligns CFOs and CMOs

Let's be real, C-Suite friction isn’t anything new. But here’s the bottom line: companies with strong CFO-CMO alignment can unlock 20 to 40% more fina...

Overcoming the challenges of integrating data
Data

The 10 best data integration solutions for marketing in 2025

You’ve just wrangled five spreadsheets for marketing, renamed twenty campaign fields and built a dashboard no one will use until next week. Tomorrow? ...

Customer retention provides a stable base for business growth
Measurement

10 customer retention metrics and how to measure them

Tired of leaky funnels and acquisition costs eating your margins? Then you need to start obsessing over customer retention. The smartest marketers kno...