A/B testing

A new campaign planning tool from Strategus analyzes historical campaigns in the same vertical to see what targeting strategies are likely to perform.

Understanding advertising effectiveness is the cornerstone of successful marketing, yet marketers often shy away from the most reliable tools for the job.

Breaking down how incrementality complements multitouch attribution and media mix modeling, and how advances in AI and ML have evolved incrementality measurement beyond A/B testing.

Audience targeting and online information campaigns have had some gnarly byproducts. Advertisers need to own our contributions to political polarization before it can get better.

DCO has been around for a long time, but it’s still popular with marketers. And although upcoming signal loss may challenge all the ways advertisers can optimize their ads, creative remains a key lever that brands can pull to improve performance.

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The term “machine learning” seems to have a magical effect as a sales buzzword. Couple that with the term “data science,” and lots of companies think they have a winning formula for attracting new clients. But there is a need for best practices in data science and for companies to invest in and fully support talent that can apply those principles effectively, writes Jasmine Jia, associate director of data science at Blockthrough. 

“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 Brian Bowman, CEO and founder of Consumer Acquisition. Apple’s new IDFA policy will have a profound impact, including killing the way in which most mobile app companies A/B test creative […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Priti Patel Powell, senior director of business development and strategy at PubMatic. Mention an A/B test and many advertisers immediately think about creative assets. Pitting one design or bit of content against another is […]

“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 Christophe Collet, CEO at S4M. When was the last time you heard A/B testing and IDFA in the same sentence? The former is traditional ad campaign testing methodology going back […]

This is not a test: App messaging platform Airship is buying Apptimize, an A/B testing platform that helps mobile marketers rapidly run experiments across apps and sites, including OTT apps. Airship, which rebranded from Urban Airship in April, declined to share terms for the deal, which was announced on Tuesday. But around 20 people from […]

Even minor tweaks to copy or layout can have a big impact on app engagement. “Little changes really do matter,” said Luca Criscuolo, head of mobile product at Germany-based Bonial.com Group, parent company of Retale, a location-based app that aggregates and mobilizes offline coupons, deals, flyers and circulars from chains and local stores. That’s particularly […]

Nitin Bhutani gets pitched by eager ad tech vendors daily in his role as VP of marketing at LendingTree.com. “We’re inundated with proposals from companies soliciting business,” said Bhutani, who came to LendingTree in 2011 after nearly a decade in various exec roles at HSBC, including VP of Internet marketing. But as a brand that […]

The marketing cloud arms race has given birth to some truly massive acquisitions over the years. Oracle’s Thursday acquisition of Maxymiser is not one of them. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a smart move, said Rebecca Lieb, an independent analyst most recently at Altimeter Group before its acquisition by Prophet in June. “It’s a […]

When ad industry discussions turn to data, it’s usually about how to target ads, not create them. But Douglas Van Praet, EVP/group planning director at Deutsch LA, speaking at Wednesday’s ANA Creativity conference, offered up some ideas of how science can influence the artistic side of advertising. Following a presentation Van Praet did with Justin […]