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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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...

Binoculars on pastel background.
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...

A chemistry set.
Marketing

How to create a culture of marketing experimentation

The numbers are in, and it looks like growth has stalled. Before you can assess what happened, people start putting performance under a microscope. Th...

A Swiss Army knife.
Data

Data integration vs. ETL — Which path is right for you?

Should you use an ETL tool or a specialized marketing data integration tool for your data? ETL (extract, transform, load) is a type of data integratio...

A multi-port USB hub.
Data

Marketing data warehouses explained

You’ve built a solid data stack. Warehousing, orchestration and governance are all in place. But then marketing launches a new campaign, adds another ...