MMM Academy Item: 5) Validating a Media Mix Model

3 Methods To Validate Your Marketing Mix Modeling for True Incrementality

Marketing Mix Modeling’s main goal is to find the incremental return of every marketing investment – how many sales did each channel drive that we wouldn’t have gotten otherwise? If you can find true incrementality, you can use it to optimize your budgets, get the right channel mix, and get …

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Why is validation challenging in MMM? What are the different ways to validate?

“How do we know if the model is right?” That’s one of the most important questions in MMM.  Most MMM models are black boxes, but business decisions can’t be based on faith alone. How do you distinguish credible results from vendor promises? How do you actually know if you’ve built …

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How to do holdout accuracy and backtesting for your MMM (and why it matters)

You don’t just want an MMM model. You want a model that can be trusted.  But since MMM models are really powerful, they can also be subject to overfitting.  So, how can we build confidence in the model and the recommendations we’re making to the marketing team?  The answer: backtesting …

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