Occam's Razor

APRIL 30, 2018

to solve for your little piece and optimize for a local maxima. Geico purchases every kind of ad: TV spots, radio ads, billboards (OOH), digital displays (video, online,– social media), print (magazines, newspaper, your cousin's Christmas letter), and so much more. It’s so easy for each little piece (you!) Was that a great ad?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I have TV for shouting, I have Facebook for Social, I have Vogue magazine because my wife reads it, I have Google for Search. And yes, finally, there is the problem of measurement. How to measure (success)? We'll end with measurement (see tweet above), let's go figure out the first challenge first.

Marketing 149

Marketing Analytics Advertising Measurement 149

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A Facebook employee (FBe) gave a talk about measuring ROI/Value of Facebook campaigns. FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. So to imply the ROI in Step 4 is sub-optimal. A push on Facebook was a part of that effort.

Advertising 165

Advertising ROI Metrics Marketing 165

Occam's Razor

JUNE 1, 2010

Or for that matter magazines or newspapers or radio. But when it comes to measuring success of our marketing efforts all of these channels are largely faith based initiatives. Consider how we measure success of our TV campaigns. " Or: "TV is really hard to measure, those boxes just don't connect or share."

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Marketing Measurement Advertising Metrics 92

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

For the rest of this post, I'm going to use the first three to capture the essence of social engagement and brand impact, and one to measure impact on the business. "So what if no one interacted with your Twitter feed, at least they saw it! "It's It covers, content, marketing and measurement.

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Here are the digital myths that are leading us down a profoundly sub-optimal path: 1. Per our friends at Wikipedia, Programmatic encompasses an array of technologies that automate the buying, placement and optimization of media inventory. How about magazines? In large measure that is because of the rise of programmatic buying.

Marketing Analytics 153

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 153

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence). A series of debates in literature, editorials, lectures, magazine articles, film, etc., Interactive media plays a much larger role in our work than merely the presentations or blog posts. Of course, some questions in business cannot be answered with historical data.

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Data Science Experimentation Data-driven Machine Learning 66