Everything old is new again. Surveys are on the rise, marketers are turning their attention to MMM – and Google is recruiting participants for an online panel through a partnership with Gallup.
Machine learning and statistical models have evolved to provide an extremely sophisticated understanding of the contribution of each marketing investment and the interactions between them. But models can leave marketers vulnerable to misguided decisions and the underutilization of data and analytics, which inhibits them from realizing the full value of the insights the model can provide, says Alice K. Sylvester, Partner at Sequent Partners.
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Dmitri Kazanski, head of product for North America at MGID. Last click is the most commonly used attribution. Why? Because it’s very simple – but it’s also clearly flawed. A […]
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The irony of digital marketing is that it has to justify itself because it can justify itself. If Michelle Weiskittel, manager of digital marketing at Albertsons Safeway, wants to get the budget to do her job, she must demonstrate as clear a connection as possible between online campaigns and actual sales. Print doesn’t carry that […]
Marketers want integrated analytics solutions – a trend clearly demonstrated by the diversity of the players populating Gartner’s most recent “Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Analytics,” released Monday. Adobe unsurprisingly took the lead, with SAS and Google trailing right behind. But in a sign of where the market is headed, attribution companies like Visual IQ also […]
The attribution space heated up this year. First Google snapped up Adometry, then AOL grabbed Convertro. Not to be left out, Rakuten bought DC Storm. Everybody wants a solution to the attribution problem – but attribution is more than just another shiny object. “The marketer’s world has never been more fragmented – from channels to possibilities […]
Adam Goldberg is Chief Innovation Officer of ClearSaleing. AdExchanger.com asked Goldberg about the latest advancements and traction with effective attribution modeling in digital advertising. AdExchanger.com: How does ClearSaleing approach attribution across channels and what are the coming milestones in cross channel attribution? Attribution modeling for an SEM direct response campaign seems pretty straightforward. AG: Today, […]
