In the context of marketing measurement, marketing analysts and marketing scientists use the term “incrementality” to refer to causality. Incrementality is about measuring what actions would not have happened without a specific marketing intervention. For example if I spend money advertising my product, I need to know how many people …
Introduction The macro-economy in the US is tough right now. Inflation is up (driven in large part by insane gas prices) and although consumer spending remains high, many are nervous about how consumers will respond to having an ever-larger chunk of their monthly budget eaten up by fuel costs. Many …
The global marketing attribution software market is set to grow by 14.4% to USD 3.6 billion by 2023. However the industry is in a state of upheaval, as marketers move to more privacy-friendly solutions in the wake of limits to tracking imposed by Apple, the European Union and others. Marketing …
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Linear regression is one of the most well known and well understood algorithms in statistics and machine learning. Anybody with access to Excel or Google Sheets can use linear regression, but don’t let its simplicity and accessibility fool you – it’s unreasonably effective at solving a long list of common …
If there’s one thing everyone knows about statistics, it’s that ‘correlation is not causation’. Ice cream sales and shark attacks both rise in the summer, but one doesn’t cause another. The hot weather gets people both buying ice cream and swimming in the sea in greater numbers. If we’re advertising …
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The Attribution Stack was featured in our post on Reforge: “The Attribution Stack: How to Make Budget Decisions in a Post-iOS14 World“ We’re in the media measurement space, so our inboxes and dm’s are full with requests for help navigating the murky world of marketing attribution (especially since iOS14). Every …
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 …
