The Big List of Marketing Metadata Fields

Are you currently experiencing marketing metadata overload? Have you gained 25 fields of metadata in the past 6 weeks? Are your databases starting to feel snug?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then have we got the program for you!

Jokes aside, metadata management for your digital assets is actually an important and often overlooked data management process. This data is important because your execution and decision-making systems rely on these values for personalization, segmentation, analytics enrichment and more.

There are a number of items marketers manage that require or can be optimized with rich metadata. The marketing assets most notable are what I like to call the 4 Cs: Campaigns, Content, Coupons, Catalogs. While there may be others, I find that these 4 have the most need for thorough metadata.

Campaigns are primarily digital marketing campaigns that have varied metadata including creative, audiences, placement, and other key attributes. Campaign metadata can enrich Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Google Ads and lots of other marketing systems.

Content can mean anything from blog articles and PDFs to videos and images with metadata that includes creator, publish date, keywords, meta description, title tag, word count, file size, etc. Improved content metadata can help in all kinds of ways include search engine discovery, personalization and more. Content marketing teams should have a process for managing this metadata.

Coupons are digital coupons that have discounts, expiration dates, usage thresholds, and more.

Digital catalogs have extensive product listings that require metadata like price, category, manufacturer, and dozens of other attributes.

The following checklist for these marketing assets is not exhaustive – we’ve seen metadata templates with over 70 elements. However, we want to give you an extensive example of the type of metadata savvy marketers and organizations use to enrich their campaigns, contents, coupons and catalogs.

Here’s a list of 125+ marketing metadata elements companies use for their digital marketing assets:

Here’s a PDF version as well.

And here’s an easy-to-copy version:

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