Dashboarding and visualisation: discover hidden insights in your data

YER is already big but aspired to double their presence in the world of recruitment and selection and secondment. iO helped them with creating a new brand, internal branding, external activation online and offline and bringing 3 websites into 1 site for all target groups.

Maximizing ROI: iO's Approach to Boosting Conversion Rate in Beobank's Campaigns. Read the full story here.

iO helps Torfs, the Flemish shoe giant, to position itself better in the Walloon market and as a fashion player. Read more about this case.

The tool will help children learn about the impact of high screen time on their mental and physical health.

Propane as an energy source was in need of recognition, by all who were living off-grid to be more precise. We managed it on behalf of gas specialist Primagaz, with creative 360° campaigns - both online and offline. Read the case study!

A central database for software vendors and clear data of golf in the Netherlands: that's what we’ve built in OutSystems - using pure low-code development.

Linking data sources by registering personal and credit card data on an online portal

Famework is a platform where brands and content creators can connect. Our experts delivered the matching engine and algorithms that power the platform.

Google Cloud Partner iO helps organisations harness the power of the cloud for storage, analytics, development, and more.

Manage and monitor your privacy preferences easily with OneTrust. Our experts are happy to help you.

Usercentrics (or Cookiebot) offers easy, transparent, GDPR compliant management of user consent and data.

CookieHub is the Consent Management Platform that puts privacy and transparency first in your organisation.

Collecting, analysing and using the right data to base decisions on is priceless these days. Our experts can help you with that.

If you know your consumer, you can answer to their needs better. iO helps you with in-depth insights from market and consumer research.

Is your strategy based on a gut feeling or research and analysis? Our experts will lead the way.

Support your organisation’s growth ambitions on budget with an in-depth tech strategy. Find out more about what iO can do for your business.

From content to advertising and tracking tools: with media and performance audits, our experts will show you the next steps to take in the digital world.

CLM and loyalty is a win-win situation: customers benefit from their loyalty and you get data flows and a smoothly running business.

Conversational & community management is our way of forging a direct connection between you and your client, through effective targeting and creativity. Find out how we can help you.

Add a little spice to your campaigns with interactive minigames. Excite your audience and collect valuable data!

Identify users quickly and safely and give them the necessary access to your platform. Our experts will help you.

AI is more than a trend. Our experts are here to show you how AI can add value to your organisation.

Enhance your website's accessibility with iO's expert guidance. Discover where your organisation stands, prioritise accessibility, and ensure transparency. Build a more inclusive digital world today.

How do you grant your organisation lasting protection? With a clear overview of the weaknesses, vulnerabilities and security risks in your digital ecosystem. Read how a technology & security audit can help your business case.

Activate your target audience with dynamic online and offline experiences. At iO, we blend marketing, technology, and strategy to create impactful brand activations.

We make your IT, data and marketing infrastructure scalable. And integrate it with the right cloud partnerships and data setups.

How do you know if your creative marketing campaigns are working? With measurement and attribution - iO experts will guide you through the process

Bring order in the chaos of big data with data management & data warehousing. The iO experts will help you on your way.

By analysing raw data correctly, you get stronger results. Our experts will help you get started with data analysis.

With iO and the right Consent Management Platform your users understand and trust you with the data you collect, the cookies you use, and more. 

A content strategy is often based on your own insights and those of the client. At iO, we like to link data to this that confirms or corrects those assumptions. In this webinar, data expert Michael will show how he generates the right data to build his strategy based on keyword and competition analyses and content dashboards, and what a data-driven content strategy will look like in the future.

We’ve all noticed that in the dynamic world of marketing data, traditional attribution models are less and less relevant. Changes in technology and legislation mean that we have to look for alternatives. Modelling of marketing data is playing an increasingly prominent role and is becoming more accessible to organisations. Marketing Mix Modelling offers you unique insights into channels that are increasingly difficult to predict in a cookieless world. Find out all about it in this webinar.

Do your customers know that they can find what they are looking for on your website easily? Conversational search, supported by an AI chatbot, makes it possible for your visitors to navigate your content seamlessly. The result? Better customer experiences. Introducing new technology such as conversational search can be challenging and is never without risk. In this webinar, we will take you through the ins and outs, to ensure that you and your organisation can get the best out of this innovation.

A Customer Data Platform collects your customers’ data and is mainly at home in the more ‘mature’ marketing departments of the organisation. A CDP combines customer data from different platforms and hands it back to you in a 360° package. This whitepaper illustrates how a CDP gets assembled, where its added value lies CDP can be for your organisation and which conditions best serve a CDP.

Four years ago, GDPR turned our digital processes upside down like a battering ram. Both in our private lives and in our professional environments: our data was never better cared for, seemingly overnight. At the risk of enormous fines, that is. Today, no organisation can afford to disregard GDPR. How has it changed, today - four years later?

In this whitepaper, we will immerse you in the world of cookies, discuss what exactly is about to happen and how you can prepare your company for it. Enjoy!

Data help the marketeer implement digital marketing techniques in customer communication. But how do you use that data, exactly? And how can you enjoy the full force of data? In this whitepaper, we will show you how to optimise your customer and prospect communication through segmentation and personalisation. Moreover, we’ll show you how AI supports these processes.

Soon, third-party cookies will disappear. Use our calculator and get an estimate of the potential loss of sales and website visitors. You will also get tailored advice on the next steps to take to minimise that loss. Go directly to the calculator via the button below or scroll down for more background information.

But how do you get started with a first-party data strategy? What do you pay attention to? Can you still rely on third-party data? And which stakeholders do you best involve in this 'new' phase? In this whitepaper, we help you out.

Digital marketing offers enormous opportunities in the field of data-driven working. We often fail to take advantage of these opportunities. That's means you miss out on a lot of opportunities to maximise the impact of your budget.

The 2024 summer holidays are behind us and it's time for organisations to set their budgets for 2025. And that is often a more difficult task than we would like to admit.   We wouldn't be iO if we hadn't come up with anything to help you with that tedious task... Get 16 tips to make your marketing and digitisation budget for 2025 smarter

The digital landscape will change significantly with the elimination of third-party cookies and the introduction of new European legislation. Advertisers will have to innovate and make the way that they market themselves more sustainable. First-party cookies and a review of the customer relationship are key to this.

With a content strategy, several goals are within reach: you serve your target group, you get to put your (sectorial) knowledge on an appropriate digital stage and bring structure to your content marketing. However, doing so successfully requires thorough preparation and that can feel overwhelming at first, especially when starting from scratch. Thanks to our experts, you’re never on your own - starting with a step-by-step plan.

Everything evolves, including marketing and analytics. For instance, server-side tracking - an old measurement technique - is currently experiencing a revival. This technique helps you collect data about your customers online.  Server-side tracking instead of client-side tracking  At iO, we know that data is essential to gain insights, improve your users' experience and optimise your ROI. But how do you reliably collect data as more and more browsers ban third-party cookies?  The traditional way of collecting data - client-side tracking - is becoming increasingly limited because of privacy concerns and browser restrictions. Server-side tracking is the answer to this problem. In this blog post, we'll tell you more about the pros and cons of server-side tracking, how to set up server-side tracking yourself, what the best practices are and what it costs. 

Data collection and developments in legislation and browsers are hot topics in digital marketing. Safari and Firefox are blocking third-party cookies by default, and Chrome will follow in 2024 – with a market share of no less than 65%. We’ll walk you through the main developments and opportunities that these changes bring in this article.

How Google presents search results has changed a lot in recent years, with an increase in the use of snippets and rich results. The addition of structured data to your content helps Google to understand your website better. That improves your score and gives you more chance of achieving a place at the top of the search results. In this blog iO experts explain how you can make structured data work for your organisation.

An idea is often the first step towards a better future, and it’s no different in product development. A backlog full of crystal-clear priorities – epics, stories, bugs, and tickets – is a wealth of ideas for the future. Having the time and budget to actually work all these ideas out is something else altogether. How do you validate an idea without risking a serious chunk of your budget? There are many situations where you would like to present an idea to your target group, just to find out whether it is financially feasible, but you can never be certain that an idea is worth the financial cost of testing. A negative result after testing can be expensive. There are industries that operate at such a scale that a 2% drop can run to the millions. That’s why caution is advised.

At iO we use today’s insights to build the organisations of tomorrow. Lander Janssens and Kristof Bossuyt report on their visit to Web Summit 2022. They explain what tokenisation and data interoperability mean — and why organisations should switch their focus to it now.

The digital landscape is in constant motion. We’re in the midst of one of the biggest shifts of the last couple of years. The days of third-party cookies are numbered, consumer expectations keep changing, and data collection and privacy regulations are becoming more strict by the day. Some parts of the industry are sitting idly by, for now, but we believe that now is the best time for organisations to act. Start developing a strong first-party data strategy now, and get a head-start on your competition.

In the beginning of this year, we launched the Opportunity report 2023. A collection of visions and insights from our experts to help you get the most out of the new year. On the 9th of March during the Opportunity online live event we brought these insights live to an interested audience to speak and discuss how to ‘Accelerate your business in 2023’. In this article, we’ll share the key takeaways from Raymond’s session with you - just a few of the many ways modern technology plays the part of enabler for digital transformation.

Data has been vital for some time now in demonstrating whether a marketing and sales strategy is a hit or a miss. However, the discussion is still dominated by gut feeling when analysing why strategies fail and what needs to be radically changed. By removing emotion from the boardroom, we raise marketing and sales efficiency. In the past, marketing strategies were based on what had already happened. Today, we have a high degree of predictability. Digital marketing has never been so close to certainty.

How do you ensure that your brand stands out in the avalanche of content that consumers receive every day? According to the iO Opportunity Report , the key lies in creativity. "If you succeed in formulating answers to the questions, needs and problems of your target group with creative, audience-oriented content experiences, then you are just as creative as if you come up with an original advertising campaign that blows everyone's socks off," says strategy director content Ruth Nys. She has been working on content all her professional life and she regards creativity as an essential constant.

Marketing campaigns are becoming more standardised and less distinctive due to automation. Today, you have to differentiate your campaigns on a strategic and creative level, where we are still better than the machine. What impact does that have on marketing organisations?

Will you publish a story online using only text? Good luck. Chances are your reader will tune out before it even gets interesting. Don’t beat yourself up, it’s not your fault. The online world is dominantly visual: images keep the scrolling audience captivated. The alphabet alone won't cut it: when presenting data you can’t do without infographics.

Now that third-party cookies are on their way out, companies have to start using their own data. Expert Jacob Eeckhout, who leads the Center of Excellence Marketing at iO, sees opportunities for many companies to build closer customer relationships after the initial panic. "When companies have to build campaign strategies using their own first-party data, their users can easily become less open. Transparency and control will restore trust between brands and consumers."

We notice that, in the dynamic world of digital data, modelling marketing data is taking an increasingly prominent role. The ability to model data and gain valuable insights is becoming more and more accessible to organisations. In this blog, we explore what makes data modelling so important and what has contributed to its increased accessibility. We’ll also share our experiences with helping our clients discover the potential of data modelling during our Data Discovery workshops.

In the ever-changing world of marketing, it can be challenging for CMOs to determine the correct marketing budget. The economic landscape and technological advances in the marketing industry calls for a new approach to budgeting. In this article, we share seven marketing budget insights, with recommendations for how to determine your budget for 2025.

Summer is slowly changing into autumn, the annual cue for the opening of the "budget season." Time to fire up the roulette wheel; redistribute marketing investments on gut feel, driven by the resources provided by management. Or are you doing it differently this year?

Organisations often store user data on their websites and apps, usually in the form of cookies. But every organisation has to be transparent about how they handle this data, and let users know if their data is shared with external parties. A Consent Management Platform (CMP) can help with this. We'll tell you all about it in this blog. 

A data analytics platform extracts data from websites and apps and processes it into actionable insights for your business operations. At the beginning of 2023, Google Analytics still had a market share of over 85% in our region and the choice was often an easy one. However, after a series of complaints and questions about its compatibility with GDPR legislation, Google Analytics is balancing on the edge of legality. Consequently, the following question arises: what should you pay attention to when choosing another data analysis platform?

You may not have noticed, but a lot has changed in terms of analytics and tracking over the past five years. This is partly because we've already grown accustomed to many changes, and partly because their impact has come very gradually. Half a decade ago, no one knew of the existence of a cookie banner, a year later everyone thought they could never get used to it, and today we don't know any better. We've made serious strides in terms of data regulation, and perhaps the biggest steps are yet to come in 2024.

More and more organisations want to measure the return on investment of digital platforms accurately. But how do you develop a successful measurement plan?

The marketing world keeps turning faster, with new updates or guidelines at every turn. It’s a world that forces businesses to change with it. A recent change by this organization includes, among other things, that Google Consent Mode must receive an update by March 2024 to enhance user privacy. Take the Digital Markets Act, for instance. This European legislative body regulates digital platforms by creating laws. A recent legislative change includes that Google Consent Mode is required to carry out an update by March 2024 at the latest to better protect users’ privacy.

The rise of AI, shifts in the social media landscape, and the end of third-party data...2023 was, to say the least, a tumultuous year. But this year, marketers and their organizations are also facing significant challenges. Discover the six digital and marketing trends that will dominate 2024 and, most importantly, how you can successfully tackle them.

In the marketing optimisation of larger iO clients - such as Brussels Airport and Lidl - we see a shift from ad hoc campaigns to always-on. There are a few logical explanations for this trend. And both the elimination of cookies and the focus on the customer experience (CX) have a lot to do with it.

For many marketers, allocating budgets for the year ahead is a real headache. Will you carry your budget over from last year – even though technology is evolving at lightning speed and the marketing world could look completely different tomorrow? Or will you follow your intuition and take a chance? Fortunately, data modelling exists allowing you to allocate your budget with the certainty that you are spending it in the right place, and at the right time.

Discover how we customised a business app that semi-automatically schedules the most efficient solution and produces quick reporting.

Discover how awareness, behaviour change, and hyper-local personalization lead to cost efficiency and relevance at the right moment.

Discover how Avans University of Applied Sciences and iO attracted over 20,000 new student choosers with creative, data-driven campaigns. Learn strategies that hold Gen Z's attention and create strong brand connections. Get inspired and discover how to entice your target audience.

Brussels Airport: In this case story, read how iO has become an extension of the airport.

How iO convinces travelers to choose Brussels Airport for their next trip. Discover the marketing campaigns.

New technology, internet-of-things and proof-of-concepts. Find out how iO is introducing innovation at Brussels Airport.

We ensured GDPR-compliant, cost-efficient cookie management for Van Hoecke's platforms using CookieHub. Read our success story.

Gaining insight into the customer journey in a data-driven way with journey mining

The first day of the Webwinkel Vakdagen (WWVD) is over! Still want to reminisce? Download the presentations of the lightning talks here.

The first day of the Webwinkel Vakdagen (WWVD) is over! Still want to reminisce? Download the presentations of the lightning talks here.

As far as we are concerned, the Webwinkel Vakdagen (WWVD) was a great success! Did you think so too?