Business Challenges

Mix models are fundamentally flawed because of data deficiency.

Incomplete and vague data is difficult to analyze using traditional media mix models. And the insights are often of questionable reliability.

Mix models do not measure the long-term, indirect effects of marketing.

Successful TV campaigns build trial, stimulate repeat purchase, and maintain healthy consumer brand perceptions.
Ignoring this long-term effect favors corrosive price promotion over brand-building advertising.

Mix models do not provide granular insights into customer journeys within specific channels and campaigns.

Traditional market mix modeling approaches provide aggregated insights about marketing activities but do not address granular business questions.

Capabilities

Understanding optimization opportunities across customer journeys

  • Acquire deep understanding of the omnichannel media mix
  • Study marketing effects on a detailed, path-based level
  • Build segment level models

Optimizing marketing efforts

  • Link marketing investments to brand perceptions from brand tracking studies
  • Join marketing efforts with consumer purchase journey analysis
  • Link marketing investments to sales by building aggregate models that measure both short and long-term marketing effectiveness

Predictions and recommendations

  • Forecast integrated marketing campaign effectiveness and conversion based on channel spend
  • Business-friendly simulators to create what-if scenarios
  • Optimization models to identify optimum channel combinations for specified sales outcomes

Helped a technology giant in analyzing the causal impact of marketing spend across a variety of channels. Optimized sales by generating a media mix that maximized sales within our client’s initial marketing budget.

Helped a large online platform company optimize digital spend ratios to increase brand perception.

Business Impact

Generate granular insights to answer business questions such as:

  • What is the impact of factors related to our operations vs. factors related to the external environment (e.g. macroeconomic, weather, competition)?
  • What is the appropriate cross-media attribution and effect (e.g. To what extent does TV advertising drive Search)?

Analyze the impact of media on sales in context of underlying factors to understand:

  • Saturation and diminishing returns from media spend
  • Sales decomposition with an evolving baseline

Quantify indirect effects to evaluate the true return on marketing investment. Arrive at an optimal strategic balance between those effects by:

  • Identifying potentially important consumer beliefs or attitudes toward the brand
  • Evaluating the contribution of brand attitudes to long-run brand demand
  • Linking marketing investments to an underlying sales baseline

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