How CMOs Use Dark Social to Track Untraceable Sharing

The CMO Podcast with Fexingo: Marketing Leadership, Budgets, and Executive Strategy · Jul 16, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Most marketing attribution tools miss the biggest sharing channel of all: dark social — private messaging, email, text, and encrypted apps where links fly without referrer data. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into why dark social accounts for an estimated 80 to 90 percent of all content sharing on the web, and how CMOs at companies like Airbnb and Glossier have built attribution models around it. They walk through the mechanics: how UTM parameters get stripped, how link shorteners can help, and why the real fix is shifting from last-click attribution to a unified customer-journey view…