Elon Musk believes we live in a simulation. His argument goes: “If you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality” — Elon Musk, Founder PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX What are the chances someone beat us to it? With the potential for many simulated realities, the odds are low we’re …
At the highest level, marketing attribution is about estimating the relative effectiveness of different advertising channels. While the term is used quite broadly to cover lots of different techniques and tools, the goal is the same: determine which marketing dollars are driving business value and which aren’t. “Half the money I spend on advertising is …
Introduction Note: this post was developed in partnership with Mike Taylor over at Vexpower where they’re working to educate marketers on how to do effective media mix modeling. This post gets a bit into the weeds, so if you want a more straightforward overview, definitely go check out the companion post over there. At Recast we use Bayesian techniques …
Marketing Measurement with Recast One of the first things people generally want to know about Recast is how it compares with their other media measurement systems. Generally, the clients we work with have set up an attribution system and have run a few lift tests, and perhaps their data science team has built, or their …
With the rise of e-commerce, online advertising, and the ability for companies to perform fine-grained digital attribution at the customer level, media-mix modeling has fallen in popularity and many marketers of the newest generation are not familiar with this very important tool for optimizing a marketing program. In this blog post I’ll review the history …
