Many businesses face tough challenges when it comes to measuring marketing incrementality because the nature of their product implies conversions that happen at multiple stages. Marketing activity drives new users or customers to the first stage, and then some proportion of those customers “convert” into a subsequent stage. This may …
“There is nothing so stable as change” – Bob Dylan Why Measure Model Stability? Media mix models (MMMs) need to be actionable for marketers. If an MMM produces wild swings in output every time it receives new information, it indicates that there is something wrong with the model and it …
Last updated: August, 2024 At Recast, we hold strong views about the right way to do Media Mix Modeling (MMM) that can be surprising to teams accustomed to outdated methodologies. Specifically, we believe that in order to be valuable, a Media Mix Model must be: This article explains how these …
People often ask us about the differences between Recast’s next-generation MMM platform and Facebook’s open source MMM tool, Robyn. In this blog post we do a compare-and-contrast between these tools – we’re obviously biased but will do our best to lay out the pros and cons of each tool as …
At Recast we generally recommend using spend — not impressions — to represent channel activity in a marketing mix model. This isn’t a technical limitation of the model itself, but rather reflects our beliefs about the critical limitations of “impressions” metrics that modelers should be aware of. This recommendation is …
At Recast we believe that in order for our customers to get value out of Recast, the model needs to be correct. That is, it needs to give valid, actionable inferences that our customers can use to drive bottom-line improvements in their business. In order to get to a correct …
It’s a question as old as Adwords: is my branded search spend truly incremental? Branded search ads are those that are attached to brand-name keywords, like “Tide” instead of “detergent”. Ads that show when someone searches for a brand name tend to (at least seem to) perform very well, but …
People who have been around the world of marketing mix modeling (MMM) for a while are often shocked that Recast is designed to be refreshed on a weekly cadence. “How are you able to do in a week what it takes many other vendors months to do?” they might ask. …
It is said that the best product ideas come from having to scratch your itch – from facing a big, challenging problem and urgently needing to find a solution for it. Recast has a similar genesis story. I ran the data science and analytics team at Harry’s, known for its …
If you’re considering working with a marketing mix modeling vendor, you’ve probably heard of Google’s open-source MMM tool, Lightweight MMM, Meta’s Robyn MMM, and our very own MMM platform here at Recast. Now, we know that choosing an MMM is a complex decision that has many variables you have to …
