Category Archives: Metrics & measurement

Tag, You're It

Tag, You’re It

When it comes to digital marketing measurement, tags make the world go ’round. The number of tags deployed on marketers’ websites has been increasing faster than the policies in place to manage the flow of data and the applications to … Continue reading

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Dear Marketers, You Have an Attribution Problem

Dear Marketers, You Have an Attribution Problem

Hey direct marketers – guess what – you have an attribution problem. You may not realize it yet, but if you are running campaigns in multiple digital marketing channels like search, display, affiliate marketing, and comparison shopping engines, you are … Continue reading

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When Numbers Lie - The Convenience of Market Research

When Numbers Lie – The Convenience of Market Research

When Fast Company, a publication that I have read and respected for years, published a story based on faulty data, I had to call them out. The story is titled Twitter Crushing Facebook’s Click Through Rate, and is based on … Continue reading

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Nielsen Campaign Ratings - Revisiting the GRP

Nielsen Campaign Ratings – Revisiting the GRP

I posted a short piece on the latest Nielsen product in the Laredo Group newsletter in response to many agencies wondering what Nielsen’s new Campaign Ratings system means for them. here’s the answer… Mention online GRP’s to a group of … Continue reading

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CMO = Chief Modeling Officer

CMO = Chief Modeling Officer

Today Ad Age reported that Best Buy is shifting more advertising dollars to TV this holiday season. The consumer electronics giant wouldn’t give exact figures, but it is increasing its spending by a low double- digit percentage. In 2009, it … Continue reading

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I Track Therefore I Am - Resolving Discrepancies

I Track Therefore I Am – Resolving Discrepancies

File Under “It’s About Freakin’ Time”! Thank you IAB for taking a step towards automating one of the mundane tasks that should not exist in our industry any longer!Hopefully it is not a witch hunt to try and pin discrepancies … Continue reading

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To GRP Or Not To GRP?

To GRP Or Not To GRP?

As many readers of this blog know,  I often expose my inner media geek. Since leaving the agency world two years ago, I’ve had the opportunity to share all of the secret digital media sauce amassed throughout a carreer at the healm of an innovative, … Continue reading

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