In typical data analysis, you need to know what you’re looking for before starting. But deep learning models can reveal links between cause and effect regardless of whether anyone would think to look for them.
A marketing campaign is nothing without a strong measurement strategy. Each channel and tactic you are investing in needs to be held accountable to business results. Confirmation bias creeps in when you consider a KPI that is easily manipulated but isn’t a true reflection of business results, writes Elise Stieferman, director of marketing & business strategy at Coegi.
In October, the United States Secret Service launched a recruitment drive to more than double the number of its special agents and uniformed officers between the ages of 24 and 37. The organization tapped its media agency, Atlanta-based JacobsEye, to run the campaign, which included pre-roll and mid-roll video ads on YouTube as well as […]
As Facebook continues to expand and adapt its advertising offerings, metrics including CPMs, CTRs and CPCs showed inconsistencies in Q1 2013 which are expected to level out as advertising normalizes on the social networking site. Facebook strategic PMD Spruce Media highlighted these changes in its “State of Facebook Advertising Q1 2013,” released this week, leading […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer at MDC Partners’ The Media Kitchen. There was a seminal study done a few years ago by comScore, Tacoda and Starcom USA called “Natural […]
