measurement

Data privacy. Clean rooms. Measurement. Gaming. M&A. Which trends deserved the hype – and which ones didn’t – in 2022? We dig into some of the biggest topics of the year

A marketing campaign is nothing without a strong measurement strategy. Each channel and tactic you are investing in needs to be held accountable to business results. Confirmation bias creeps in when you consider a KPI that is easily manipulated but isn’t a true reflection of business results, writes Elise Stieferman, director of marketing & business strategy at Coegi.

Many brand marketers, even some of the most sophisticated data-driven online advertisers, are reverting to tried-and-true methods to measure and plan their campaigns, including media mix modeling and surveys. You can’t blame brands from being pretty much done with promises when it comes to digital marketing.

The round was led by Play Ventures VC with participation from Heracles Capital, a $10 million fund focused on mobile investments that was launched in May by Mobile Dev Memo Founder and all-around mobile smartypants Eric Seufert.

It’s a familiar story – He picked up a new pandemic hobby, while finding pockets of time away from small children. For Neil Hoyne, Google chief measurement strategist, being stuck at home meant writing a book. Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts, was published last month. “The single lesson that pulls through here is that a lot of these changes are easier for companies to realize then what they may suspect.”

“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 Joshua Koran, EVP of data and policy at Criteo. While it’s easy for marketers to fixate on Google’s threatened “cookiepocolypse,” being too hyper-focused on engagement tactics misses the big picture. […]

The technology of marketing is always evolving, and that lifecycle is especially evident on this week’s episode of The Big Story. The use of customer data platforms (CDPs) – the trendy software category taking over where DMPs left off and building on CRMs and marketing automation – is on the rise. Special guest Stuart Schneiderman, SVP […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Jo Kinsella, President, TVSquared. Since the dawn of TV, Nielsen ratings have been the gold standard for marketers. They measured the percentage of a group (e.g., women aged 18-49) or households in a particular designated […]

More than a decade ago, a tiny group of vendors emerged to help answer a single marketer question: Did my ad run when and where the publisher promised? Since then the verification category has steadily expanded into adjacent areas. Was my ad viewable by the end user? Was it served to a live human? And […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. FTC You Next Time The FTC had its Facebook antitrust case dismissed, and recently refiled a new suit. The issue is if Facebook’s competition includes YouTube, Snap, Pinterest, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify, Hulu and Netflix, then it’s hardly a monopolized market. The FTC’s […]