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What Makes Marketing More Effective?

By David Dixon | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog
What is it that makes marketing more effective? Although there are many answers to this question, the one we focus on today is that of short-and long-term brand investment. This approach is when brands split their investments between short-term product-centric ads that push purchase, and long-term brand building ads that build an identity. Last week we read about a brand ...
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Marketscience x Marketing Week: a guide to a more rigorous approach to Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM)

By Irina Pessin | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog
As the first piece of research to be published in Marketing Week Marketer's Manual, Marketscience provides a strong point of view around ...
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Marketing Attribution and the AI Illusion

By Irina Pessin | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog
Marketscience's Peter Cain recently published an Editorial piece in the 4th Issue of I-COM's Frontiers of Marketing - Data Science Journal. Peter ...
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Successful ROI Marketing Programs – The Five Pillars

By Sebastian Shapiro | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
Everybody is looking for a quick fix when embarking on a new Marketing ROI Program. They think the latest trendy platform or ...
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The Foundations of Modern Marketing Mix Modeling

By Peter Cain | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog
The Marketing Mix Model is a popular business tool designed to quantify marketing Return on Investment (ROI), guide the optimal allocation of ...
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Brand Equity Metrics and the Marketing Mix Model

By Peter Cain | Mar 4, 2022 | Blog
Conventional MMM is short-term focused The conventional Marketing Mix Model (MMM) deals predominantly with short-term marketing effectiveness, where dynamic specification in the ...
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Endogeneity And The Marketing Mix Model

By Peter Cain | Jan 28, 2022 | Blog
Overview A key focus for most marketing managers is optimal allocation of the marketing budget. This relies heavily on correct causal attribution ...
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Correlation vs. Causation: Measuring Short- and Long-Term Effects of Marketing Investments

By Peter Cain | Nov 29, 2021 | Blog
For decades MMM has been seen as a way to identify the "50% of advertising spend that is wasted". However, failure to ...
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COVID-19 Impact on Measuring Marketing Effectiveness: ISBA Member Presentation

By Peter Cain | May 17, 2021 | Blog
Presented by: PricewaterhouseCoopers & Marketscience April-May 2021                     Recently, top tier consulting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers ...
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COVID Impact: Measurement & Analytics Q&A

By Peter Cain | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog
In the wake of COVID's impact, the questions and uncertainty that surround measurement and analytics grows larger by the day. With such ...
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