With TV Impressions Vanishing, Campaigns Must Focus On Resonance, Not Frequency
The TV market’s vanishing impression problem is even more concerning than the numbers indicate. But maybe a little impression scarcity is a good thing.
The TV market’s vanishing impression problem is even more concerning than the numbers indicate. But maybe a little impression scarcity is a good thing.
Imagine you’re deep into streaming game five of the NBA playoffs. After enduring the same car commercial countless times, frustration sets in: “Not that truck ad again. I’m not in the market for a car, but even if I were, I’d never buy this now because they practically ruined the game for me.”
The advertising industry’s shift from last-click attribution to multi-touch attribution (MTA) initially promised a deeper understanding of marketing effectiveness. However, limitations like signal loss and the ineffectiveness of non-clickable media like TV have emerged.
Breaking down how incrementality complements multitouch attribution and media mix modeling, and how advances in AI and ML have evolved incrementality measurement beyond A/B testing.
RAG is a recently developed process to ingest, chunk, embed, store, retrieve and feed first-party data into AI models. Here’s how to use these tools to inject first-party data into your next AI-enabled campaign.
Audience targeting and online information campaigns have had some gnarly byproducts. Advertisers need to own our contributions to political polarization before it can get better.
Pivoting to a “premium internet” is like avoiding the parts of town that have been blighted by illicit activity. The only real solution to MFA is for the dollars to dry up.
Even if the industry finds a way to replace the cookie, it won’t matter if publishers no longer have traffic to monetize.
Remember that car you had in college? You took it everywhere and used it for everything. You loved it. Sadly, you eventually outgrew it. You needed more room, some basic safety features, and it had a faulty transmission that wasn’t worth replacing.
Things are moving (pardon the pun) FAST in CTV programmatic. Total spend topped $21 billion in 2023, representing roughly 4x growth over the last five years. But if we want to ensure those ad dollars translate into outcomes, we collectively need to slow down and make time to proactively attack fraud and transparency concerns before they get worse.