
Most marketing dashboards show activity but not revenue contribution, Alisira OÜ found. Only 32% of marketers measure spending across both digital and traditional channels. The company urges a shift to decision-linked metrics.
Marketing dashboards are filled with impressions, click volumes, and session counts. They rarely answer whether a campaign is driving revenue, according to a review by Alisira OÜ. The company published findings on why most measurement setups fail to surface the numbers that budget owners actually need.
Alisira said the problem is not a lack of data. Modern platforms can collect enormous volumes. The gap is between what gets displayed and what a team genuinely decides to act on. Activity metrics are easy to pull. Revenue contribution by channel, especially when multiple touchpoints and delayed purchases are involved, takes more effort. That is the piece most often left out of the weekly report. It is also the piece leadership cares about when the conversation turns to resource allocation.
Only 32% of marketers globally measure their media spending across both digital and traditional channels, according to Nielsen. That leaves most teams working with a partial view before dashboard-design questions even come into play. Alisira said this is less a tooling problem than a structural one. Many organizations lack a single point in the workflow where channel-level data is reconciled before reaching a decision-maker in usable form.
Alisira framed the findings as part of a broader shift. Instead of building dashboards that display everything a platform can track, companies should focus on a smaller set of numbers tied directly to what a team decides to do next. The company plans to continue publishing analysis on measurement practices and marketing reporting in the months ahead.
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