Below is live coverage of the The Cross Media Attribution Battle from the SMX East 2009 conference.
This coverage is provided by Justin Davy of JustinDavy.com.
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| The Cross Media Attribution Battle | (10/06/2009) |
| 4:47 | Justin Davy: The Cross Media Attribution Battle:
Speakers:
Roger Barnette, Founder and President, SearchIgnite
Dax Hamman, Vice President of Display Media, iCrossing
Kevin Lee, CEO, Didit
Alan Osetek, Managing Director, iProspect Boston, iProspect
Tony Wright, CEO/Founder, WrightIMC |
| 4:47 | Justin Davy: Dax is up first |
| 4:50 | Justin Davy: Dax is sharing different challenges including cookies, analytics, post-click vs post impression and internal agreement
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| 4:51 | Justin Davy: If you can overcome the challenges, the benefits worthwhile. Papers can be downloaded at icrossing.com/research |
| 4:52 | Justin Davy: Effects of Display Media on Search Traffic Study:
13.7% increase in natural search visitors
2.5% increase in unique visitors
14.8% increase in paid search click thru rate
11.2% decrease in paid search cpc |
| 4:53 | Justin Davy: Alan is now up |
| 4:54 | Justin Davy: Key questions you should be asking before putting toegther a program
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| 4:55 | Justin Davy: What type of attribution analysis program will I conduct? Ex. Online exposure only - Display vs Search. Or something more complicated with Online vs Offline. |
| 4:55 | Justin Davy: Why are you wanting to conduct an attribution analysis? |
| 4:55 | Justin Davy: Is it for media optimization, or frequency capping etc.. |
| 4:56 | Justin Davy: How? Provide complete visibility into inter-connected Advertising, Respose and Customer Data
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| 4:56 | Justin Davy: Important to look at customer data and the lifetime value of customers as opposed to just frontend cost. |
| 4:57 | Justin Davy: Some challenges include:
- Universal Tagging
- Volume of Data
- Stack of Engagement Touch Points
- Assigning Appropriate Levels of Credit
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| 4:59 | Justin Davy: Various types of attribution analysis include Channel, Publisher, Placement, Creative, Keyword, Offer, Product & Web page Attribution |
| 5:00 | Justin Davy: One of the most important things to think about is how much of the data set is included in the model. Many are just doing sampling which is about 15% of the data. |
| 5:01 | Justin Davy: You need actionable reporting, not a giant stack of confusing documents |
| 5:02 | Justin Davy: The girl next to me liked that last one :) |
| 5:02 | Justin Davy: Moving on |
| 5:03 | Justin Davy: Attribution Issues:
1. De-duplication
Are you double-counting the same action multiple times
2. Getting beyond last click attribution |
| 5:06 | Justin Davy: Its critical that you get all the data in one location not just a sample to make wise decisions
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| 5:06 | Justin Davy: How:
Centralized tracking and exposure sequencing
Channel prioritization and weighting
Mulitiple exposure attribution
Real time dashboard |
| 5:07 | Justin Davy: Sharing an example between organic search and paid inclusion |
| 5:08 | Justin Davy: Revenue per click was tracked by channel |
| 5:08 | Justin Davy: Paid was receiving to much credit |
| 5:10 | Justin Davy: Proper attribution settings will depend on each unique client situation and marketing mix |
| 5:10 | Justin Davy: Be sure to optimize using both inter and intra-channel data |
| 5:11 | Justin Davy: Tony promises to keep this simple |
| 5:12 | Justin Davy: Fact is that your wasting your advertising dollars and always have. It's also a fact that recouping even a little bit of those wasted dollars is a huge win. |
| 5:12 | Justin Davy: Fiction: With proper attribution you won't be wasting any of your advertising dollars |
| 5:12 | Justin Davy: Don't spend inordinate amounts of time analyzing where the click came from |
| 5:13 | Justin Davy: If you are lead generation - utilize sales force, call tracking and ASK people |
| 5:13 | Justin Davy: Periodic surveys with incentives can provide statistically valid samples |
| 5:14 | Justin Davy: Look at things holistically - what is the overall effect of a shift? |
| 5:14 | Justin Davy: Don't be afraid to move things around and test... |
| 5:14 | Justin Davy: Look for macro trends - not the magic bullet in the haystack. It's different for each business. |
| 5:14 | Justin Davy: Take your time, its a marathon, not a sprint |
| 5:16 | Justin Davy: Built attribution into the campaign from the start
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| 5:16 | Justin Davy: Work your campaigns in this order
- Set your goals
- Budget
- Tracking
- Choose your media
- Estimate your effectiveness
- Execute w/confidence
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| 5:16 | Justin Davy: Something will go wrong. Not everytime but it will |
| 5:17 | Justin Davy: Go back and check estimates - where did u miscalculate |
| 5:17 | Justin Davy: Look for other outside influencers |
| 5:17 | Justin Davy: Get back on the horse! |
| 5:17 | Justin Davy: Call tracking is cheap - and listening to calls can really tell you something |
| 5:17 | Justin Davy: Incentivized surveys are great for finding out what went wrong |
| 5:18 | Justin Davy: Search is not the final answer. TV, Display, Print etc all work together with online |
| 5:20 | Justin Davy: Kevin is up now |
| 5:20 | Justin Davy: SEMPO survey says branding is nearly always an objective |
| 5:20 | Justin Davy: Yet brand lift was rarely a measured metric |
| 5:21 | Justin Davy: Four days after a person gets to a site, their overall awareness lift was much higher. (via Google Study) |
| 5:23 | Justin Davy: Are you taking into account all the non-media marketing attribution. What is the cause and affect |
| 5:24 | Justin Davy: Be honest with yourself. Are you willing to cut a TV budget by 30% in a particular market in order to test? |
| 5:26 | Justin Davy: Consider using viewthroughs
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| 5:26 | Justin Davy: 8 percent of users generate 85% of clicks on display |
| 5:27 | Justin Davy: PIggy-back off your competitions media buy |
| 5:28 | Justin Davy: Ex. Your competitor is doing a homepage takeover on Yahoo |
| 5:33 | Justin Davy: Very small % of companies are currently doing this. It's still early but now is the time to at least do more than you were. |
| 5:33 | Justin Davy: Focus on getting data and making smart decisions on that |
| 5:34 | Justin Davy: You could begin small by doing a small survey |
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