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Correlation versus 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 acknowledge two fundamental issues will risk continued waste through mis-estimation of both Performance and Brand Marketing, resulting in suboptimal allocation of marketing investment and significantly reduced marketing effectiveness.   Modern Marketing Mix Models have focused on moving from a ...
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The Six Questions You Should Be Asking Your Marketing Analytics Vendor

By Peter Cain | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog
Anyone who tells you that Marketing Analytics is an exact science is wrong. The algorithms, the data, the optimizations and the simulations ...
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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 ...
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Demystifying MMM

By Peter Cain | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog
Uncovering the Realistic Capabilities of Marketing Mix Modeling   It’s 2017: you’re explaining to your CMO, CFO, and other department leads about ...
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Potential implications for marketing, measurement and ROI in a post-GDPR world

By David Dixon | May 15, 2019 | Blog
*This is an except from a larger piece written for WARC AdMap in their May 2019 edition. To view the full piece, ...
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Should MMM Reports Be Vendor-Based?

By David Dixon | May 15, 2019 | Blog
Traditionally, marketing mix models (MMM) have analyzed performance by channels – such as TV, print, radio, and digital – all because it ...
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An Open Conversation about MTA

By David Dixon | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog
A short history lesson in the development of Media Mix Modeling (MMM) and Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) may be all one needs to ...
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The Future of Media Measurement

By Peter Cain | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog
Has the time for an accountability approach arrived?  After the recent news of Comscore’s Chief Executive Bryan Wiener and President Sarah Hofstetter stepping down, ...
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Build, Borrow or Buy: Analytics Enablement for In-House Marketers

By Sebastian Shapiro | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
Few companies are achieving advanced marketing analytics at scale despite the benefits of doing so. Analytics should offer the prospect of improved ...
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5 Tips to Harmonize Your Data

By Sebastian Shapiro | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog
Understanding how marketing influences business is a complex game with many factors at play. The first step in beginning to understand that ...
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