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Data-Driven Thinking

  • ZIP Codes: The Simple Fix For Advertising ROI Measurement

    One of the hottest trends in advertising effectiveness measurement, especially with privacy concerns killing user-level online tracking, is geographic incrementality experiments. These experiments are cost-effective, straightforward and reliable, if done right. Geo media experiments typically use large marketing areas, such as Nielsen’s Designated Market Areas (DMAs). Unlike traditional matched market testing, this modern approach involves […]

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  • Predictive AI Can Unlock The Value Of Unpredictability

    Campaign planners are the oracles of advertising, poring over prior results, designing A/B tests, identifying target audiences and crafting compelling messages to maximize the chance of success. Through well-honed hunches and cold hard data, advertising mixes art and science to peer into the future.  Now, AI is ushering in the next frontier of brand-on-brand competition. […]

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  • Why Standardization Is Wrong For Attention Metrics

    The rise of machine learning in buying algorithms is helping to debunk some of advertising’s commonly held truths. The assumption that high viewability equates to high quality is often misleading. When campaign goals are lower funnel and there is no constraint to purchasing only highly viewable placements, AI frequently reveals that lower-viewability placements – as […]

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  • Ethical AI: Protecting Data Privacy And User Consent In The Age of Innovation

    Doing more with less is the name of the advertising game these days. Strict compliance and privacy laws combined with ever-changing technical restrictions limit the data companies can collect and process for marketing and advertising.  This isn’t a bad thing. Respecting customer privacy is good business, especially as younger generations take action to protect themselves. […]

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  • For AI Systems To Deliver On Their Potential, DEI Must Be Ingrained – And Enforced

    Inherent bias is embedded in all AI training data. This bias is perpetuated by nondiverse teams determining who gets access to it and how it’s used. That bias is then accelerated by the competitive nature of high-power investors whose primary goals are dispersing software and tools to generate outputs for clients and revenue for themselves. […]

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  • Authenticity Can Help Brands Ride The Election Wave – Without Drowning

    As marketers, we often feel like we’re walking through a minefield, meticulously reviewing analytics and responding to data insights while trying to get the most out of our clients’ ad budgets.  Throw in the chaos of the election year, which has already delivered unprecedented surprises, and it’s like adding juggling torches to the mix. It […]

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  • Mitigating Misrepresentation: Is There A Proper Approach To ID Bridging?

    It has become clear recently that some sellers in the RTB ecosystem are engaging in abnormal practices regarding how IDs are populated in bid requests.  These sellers are causing a cookie ID to be presented in the bid request, in the customary field (“buyeruid”), but this cookie is not present in the browser. MediaMath listed […]

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  • Has Idealism Killed Google’s Pursuit Of Privacy?

    It’s been a busy few weeks for those following Google. It all started with the Privacy Sandbox team announcing a pivot away from phased third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome to one driven by user prompts … for settings they already have.  By now, many hot takes on the Sandbox announcement have already been written. But […]

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  • Google Won’t Kill Off Cookies, Consumers Will – And That’s How It Should Be

    Google’s decision to cancel cookie deprecation may just be the move that eliminates third-party cookies for good. Exact details are still unclear, but Google said it will offer Chrome users the chance to “make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.” The fate of cookies is now in the hands of the consumer. […]

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  • How TikTok Shop Is Redefining Social Commerce In The US

    Social commerce is already huge in the Asia-Pacific market, and it’s poised to blow up worldwide in the coming years.  In 2023, social commerce generated an estimated $571 billion globally. With a compound annual growth rate of 13.7%, revenues are expected to surpass one trillion dollars by 2028. In China, the social commerce market is […]

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