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Rocking the Boat: Marketing Best Practices for the 21st Century

© 2014 Demand Metric Research Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Best Practices Report

By Jerry Rackley, Chief Analyst

June 2014

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Introduction

Modern Marketing Dilemma

Current Marketing Challenges

Modern Marketing Performance Management

Practical Attribution Application

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Our Best Practices Report Methodology

About Adometry by Google™

About Demand Metric

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Successful Marketing Leadership

About the Research Analyst

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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Best Practices Report: 21st Century Marketing Manifesto

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Marketers have long been challenged to prove how their

actions, campaigns and initiatives are responsible for

generating business results. This isn’t a new challenge – late 19th

century retailer John Wanamaker, a marketing pioneer considered by

many as the father of modern advertising, once said, “Half the

money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know

which half.”

Intuitively, marketers understand that their efforts influence

business results, but marketers have not endeavored to learn

the degree to which they do so for a variety of reasons. Some

haven’t had to, because strong business results let them off the

hook. More than a few fear knowing the truth. Others don’t feel

they have the resources to pursue an answer, and still others believe

that understanding the relationship between marketing efforts and

business results is unknowable with any degree of precision.

Whatever the reasons, the myth that marketing cannot truly

understand the impact of what it does perpetuates.

Challenging the abilities of the marketer is the increasingly

complex customer journey. A larger portion of this journey is

intentionally completed without vendor interaction and therefore

hidden from the marketer. It is the norm for it to occur across

multiple devices and through a multi-channel media stream.

The old marketing order believes that it’s too difficult to

understand or measure the influences holistically during the

customer journey. The customer journey seems like a black box –

the prospect enters it an immediately disappears from sight. We

toss content, digital experiences, and every creative tactic we can

into that black box hoping the prospect stumbles across them.

Sometimes the prospect exits the black box and becomes a

customer, but other times not. It seems there’s no way of knowing

which content, through which channel influenced the prospect

while inside the black box, so marketers must use their instincts and

what little intelligence we can glean to tweak what we throw into the

black box. At best, we see some incremental improvements,

and there’s tremendous uncertainty about connecting

activities to results.

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Imagine the power of connecting these dots, of knowing the causes and effects of marketing’s work.

How much more intelligently could we optimize the multi-channel mix most of us use?

How much farther could we stretch our marketing budgets by knowing what really isn’t working and exactly what is?

How easy would justifying the marketing spend be when we’re not guessing which efforts produced results, and to what degree?

How would it feel to be right at home in an ROI discussion about our work?

When someone asks, “what have you done for us lately?” to have an authoritative answer that puts to rest any doubt?

This is the new marketing order, and it’s not futuristic science fiction, but something marketers can embrace here and now.

The purpose of this manifesto is to express the vision for this new marketing order and call marketers to it. In this data-driven, multi-channel

marketing world in which we now operate, marketers can eliminate the guesswork about how their activities are creating results.

To accomplish this goal, this manifesto will discuss the modern marketing dilemma and status quo, and then describe the different

kind of thinking required to manage modern marketing performance.

Best Practices Report: 21st Century Marketing Manifesto

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In the history of marketing, there has never been a more exciting,

challenging, rewarding and apprehensive time for the marketing

profession than right now. Clare Price, VP of Research at Demand

Metric, puts it this way in the 2014 Outlook Study:

“More than ever before, Marketing has direct control

over the sales/buying process and with it the

customer journey. That change has given Marketing

more opportunity to prove its value to the company,

while at the same time increasing pressure to deliver

results with measureable advances in performance

and productivity.”

The set of things about which the modern marketer is concerned

with simply continues to expand. Consider just the tools and

technologies marketers have at their disposal, as illustrated in

Marketing Technology LUMAscape (Figure 1, Page 6) published

by Luma Partners in 2014.

MODERN MARKETING DILEMMA

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A More Complex Customer Journey

Another challenge to the modern marketer is the evolution of the

customer journey, which now occurs not just through multiple

channels, but multiple devices as well.

Multi-channel Marketing

There was a time when marketers would direct mail a piece to a list

of prospects, and then wait for responses. Marketers could easily do

the analytics and tracking to match responses to the mailing,

determine the conversion rate, cost to acquire a customer and the

ROI. It was easy to understand what produced the conversion,

because not only was it the last thing the consumer saw, it was the

only thing the consumer saw.

When the internet evolved into a marketing platform, the old

metrics were used, with help from cookies and tags to track

everything and detect conversions. Initially, this approach worked,

but as the number of online channels continues to proliferate,

the challenge for the marketer is to get clarity of insight into

what’s happening because of this media stream.

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6 Figure 1: Marketing Technology LUMAscape; Published by Luma Partners, 2014

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Which elements best create awareness, promote and produce

conversions?

The influence of the old way of assigning credit for conversion

persisted: last click attribution. This form of attribution assigned

full credit for conversion to the last piece of media in the stream,

regardless of how diverse the media stream was. But marketers need

a much more precise understanding of how all media is performing,

so they can make better decisions and develop better strategies and

tactics.

Marketing Across Devices

In addition to the broadening array of channels marketers

have at their disposal is the proliferation of devices.

Consuming content across multiple devices is now the norm for

most people. It may start with a mobile device, but often ends

somewhere else, as the infographic from Google illustrates in Figure

2 to the left.

This proliferation of devices is a boon to consumers, but a

challenge to marketers that need to track all the activity,

regardless of which device on which it occurs.

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Figure 2: The New Multi-Screen World, Published by Google, 2014

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The Data Deluge & Big Data Marketing

With the proliferation of channels and devices comes a deluge of

data. For marketing organizations that are already very data centric,

this rush of data is seen as a good thing, although it’s availability still

poses some challenges. The simple fact is that without data,

optimizing the media mix can only occur through educated

guesswork. To have any sort of precise view about media

performance requires availability of the data, the systems and tools

to understand it, and the will to go where the data leads you.

Turning all this data into actionable information

requires skills, bandwidth or tools many marketers

just don’t have or don’t think are available.

While it sounds simple, exploiting the data in practice isn’t always

easy. The amount of user-level data increases with channels and

devices. Where once it was relatively easy for marketers to

understand the performance of the one or two channels they were

using, they’re now faced with a barrage of data arriving in real time

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and from every direction. Turning all this data into actionable

information requires skills, bandwidth or tools many marketers just

don’t have or don’t think are available. To cope, some marketers

simply attribute conversion credit to the last element touched or

clicked. This approach, however, is wholly inaccurate, primarily

because the volume of media is so substantial and varied. The

longer the media stream, and the more varied it is, the less

likely it is that last click attribution accurately reports the

performance of that media stream.

Marketing ROI and Accountability

No modern marketer disputes that the rules and norms of

marketing have changed with the advent of online marketing. What

hasn’t changed is the need for marketing to provide accountability

to the business for its performance.

The challenges of the 21st century marketing environment make

accountability more difficult to prove. It’s unacceptable for

marketing to just ask the rest of the organization to just “take

our word for it” when asked how effective its campaigns are.

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There’s no shortage of data that marketing can present to the organization as evidence of its efforts: impressions, clicks, unique visits and an

entire marketing dashboard of various metrics exit. What the organization really wants to know, particularly those in the C-suite, is:

How do any of these metrics translate into something we care about?

What revenue is directly attributable to marketing campaigns?

What is the marketing ROI?

What incremental revenue can marketing produce with additional funding?

Marketing is expected to fully participate in such discussions, just like the other parts of the organization do.

To address all of these marketing challenges, marketers need a technology platform that gathers and matches data at a user level

across multiple channels and device types, letting marketing change the channel mix as needed while still tracking conversions

accurately.

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Silos and Multi-channel Optimization

Because there are more marketing channels and devices at our

disposal today, the marketing landscape is quite fragmented.

With so many digital paths marketers can choose to reach their targets,

it’s almost impossible to understand the impact each one is having.

Marketers have tried to come up with ways to measure their efforts,

but these efforts at best result in silos.

The silos of marketing data are reflected in the way many modern

marketing organizations are structured. Today we see separate

functions for analytics, offline, digital and others. These are essentially

silos that reinforce how reporting is done. The result is that there is

no single source of data or system of record for marketing

leaders to use to understand how the marketing function is

performing.

Marketers often use response curves to predict how a campaign will

perform, and they are built on the assumption that past results predict

future performance. A sample response curve is depicted in Figure 3.

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Figure 3: Media Element Response Curve

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In a single media element (channel) marketing campaign, a response curve is a useful tool for predicting performance. Most modern

campaigns, however, are not one-dimensional but multi-channel.

Marketers that use a response curve can unwittingly become hostage to it, attempting intra-channel tweaking and modification that at best yields

basis point-sized improvements. The reason this approach is flawed is because it cannot account for the influence of other channels on

customers who convert.

Consider an email marketing campaign, for which a response curve is built using past performance metrics. The email send occurs and some

recipients use search to investigate the sender. A pay-per-click is served to the searcher, who eventually ends up on the sender’s website where

additional content is consumed.

In this scenario, a number of media elements entered the stream and had various levels of influence. However, the response curve is

deaf, dumb and blind to their existence. Using the response curve to optimize a campaign is analogous to diagnosing a car’s mechanical

problems by looking only at the tires. Sometimes it works, but usually it doesn’t. Better solutions are needed for true multi-channel marketing.

Using the response curve to optimize a campaign

is analogous to diagnosing a car’s mechanical problems

by looking only at the tires.

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Bringing True Marketing Strategy to the Table

Marketers desire to be part of the strategic planning and decision-

making processes in the organizations they serve. Indeed, marketers

can bring brilliant insights and a unique, needed perspective to the

“big decisions table” within their companies.

The risk for marketers, however, is that the inability to answer

some questions about their work with conviction and authority

can jeopardize their leadership role. Ironically, many of these

questions seem very operational, but the inability to answer them

precisely creates doubt about marketing’s ability to contribute

insights in other areas. Examples of these “tripwire” questions

include:

What is the incremental contribution of each marketing

channel, above “business as usual?” In the multi-channel

world that marketers exploit, rarely do they all influence equally

and outside the influence of other channels. Yet, it’s important to

know the degree to which each channel in the media stream

contributes to conversion. Most marketers don’t have this data

for each channel; just for the media stream as a whole.

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If it becomes necessary to increase or decrease marketing,

which channels are candidates and what is the expected

outcome? Few marketers have the luxury of never needing to

worry about changing budgets. Where would cuts hurt the least,

or conversely, where would some additional funding help the

most? For most marketers, fluctuating funding is essentially a

controlled experiment where changes are made, one channel at a

time if possible, to see what happens. It’s far more ideal to have

precise marketing performance data about each channel in the

media stream to know in advance what impact changes will have.

How do tactics, devices and audiences perform across

channels and what is the interplay? Customers experience the

media stream across a variety of devices, platforms and through

various channels. How is this interaction occurring, and which

types of interaction produce the most conversions? Having this

knowledge is essential to optimizing the mix of marketing tactics,

channels and devices, but since the data is often in silos, it’s hard

for marketers to understand the relationships, yet alone make

decisions to leverage them more effectively.

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What is the optimal marketing spending mix within each channel based on a desired business outcome? Most marketers have

experience to tell them that the relationship between spending and results is not linear, nor is it exponential. But what is it exactly? Largely

unknown, when there is no precise attribution data. When the organization comes knocking, asking how much marketing needs to spend to

produce an additional $25 million in revenue, it expects an answer from marketing that is more than just an educated guess.

Each of these questions is a legitimate, fair question for marketing. It is important for marketing to have the acumen and ability to answer

questions like these if they want to retain their seat at the big decisions table.

When the media world was much simpler, marketing could answer them pretty well. In the 21st century, the complex media and device landscape

has made the answers to these questions more elusive, at least when 20th century approaches are used to find them.

In fairness, answering any of these questions with precision was once out of reach, but the environment has changed. The answers

are available, if marketers are willing to seek them.

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Marketers understand attribution, at least conceptually, and all

marketers have a desire to know how to attribute their efforts to

results.

In marketing campaigns, what typically happens is that the

marketing measurement methods are set up for each channel, and

when someone converts, credit is given to the last element in the

media stream. This last click attribution approach, however, is

inaccurate, giving marketers a false sense of precision,

because the decision to convert was driven by the entire media

stream that users are seeing, not just a single element. There

is a better way.

Data-Driven Advanced Attribution

This approach very accurately allocates credit across the full stream

of media that a user sees as they are going through the purchase

funnel and interacting with content. Data-driven attribution helps

marketers know what pieces of content or media elements are really

responsible for someone converting, and to what degree.

MODERN MARKETING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

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Marketers understand that different aspects of a media campaign

have different goals. Early in the campaign, the goal is usually

awareness, which other elements harvest later in the campaign.

Because of these differences, marketers need to consider the whole

stream of media through the dimension of time, as buyers are

consuming it. Using data-driven attribution, fractional credit for

conversion is allocated to those media elements that are

tangibly responsible for helping drive someone toward

conversion.

Marketers can now know which ad units were responsible for

conversion and how far out they were seen from the conversion

event. They can identify the media elements that were “promoters”

– moving interested prospects toward conversion, and of course,

which media element(s) had the greatest influence on conversion.

Data-driven attribution provides marketers with accurate and

actionable marketing data.

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Data-driven attribution isn’t difficult to understand, but it represents

a change in thinking and a new way of getting clarity on what’s

happening within a marketing campaign. Last touch attribution is a

faulty way of measuring results, providing a false sense of precision.

Data-driven attribution provides clarity on exactly what’s

happening with a marketing campaign, enabling marketing to

make better decisions which leads to better strategies and

tactics to improve response and conversion rates.

Not Your Father’s Marketing Method

In this age of rapid commoditization of products, democratization

of information and with consumers controlling how much

marketers can influence their decision process, advanced, data-

driven attribution creates a strategic advantage.

What hasn’t changed in this modern marketing era is that marketing

success depends on its ability to drive awareness, interest, desire and

ultimately action. What has changed is this process occurs in a

more complex environment, across multiple channels, devices

and at greater velocity. The internet has changed almost every

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aspect of the marketer’s workbench, things like speed, reach,

targeting and complexity. The sands of the marketing landscape are

shifting under the marketer’s feet, requiring tremendous agility.

In the old way that marketing executed campaigns, conversion

credit usually went to the bottom of the marketing funnel activities,

with top-of-funnel activities getting little or no credit.

Data from the bottom of the funnel has always been easier to get.

Making campaign decisions on this data leads to heavier and heavier

investment in demand harvesting.

This produces some short-term results, but the pendulum

ultimately swings too far to demand harvesting, causing

marketing results to shrink for one simple reason: too little

awareness building is occurring. When this realization sets in,

the pendulum swings the other way, often too far toward awareness

building, because decisions about where to invest the marketing

spend are simply reactions after-the-fact to dwindling results.

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Real-Time Marketing Measurement

Without the data an data-driven attribution solution provides, marketing organizations will continue to ride the pendulum between demand

harvesting and awareness building, sometimes coming close to the ideal balance, but always guessing and often erring.

Even when a marketer gets the balance right, it’s always temporary because the optimal media mix is a moving target, and the old ways of

managing campaigns is analogous to driving forward by looking in the rear-view mirror. Having an attribution platform in place that

measures how everything is working in real time produces better results and creates a significant competitive advantage.

Without the data an data-driven attribution solution provides,

marketing organizations will still find themselves riding the

pendulum between demand harvesting and awareness building,

sometimes coming close to the ideal balance,

but always guessing and often erring.

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As Data-driven attribution sounds great conceptually, but how real is it? Concepts, while interesting, can only deliver value when they

become real. As a solution, data-driven attribution is just beginning to emerge from the “early adopter” stage of the solution lifecycle. While

adoption is not yet widespread, there are organizations like Bluestem Brands that are using it, and there is much to learn from their experience.

Bluestem Brands: Advanced Attribution Case Study

Bluestem Brands, Inc., a top 100 retailer, is headquartered in suburban Minneapolis, and is the parent to three fast-growing eCommerce retail

brands: Fingerhut®, Gettington.com® and PayCheck Direct®. Scott Holthaus is the Digital Marketing Manager at Bluestem, and when he took

his current position in 2013, he encountered some confusion in the business about how consumers were interacting with the brands across

channels. His first objective was to try to understand the incremental contribution of each channel to the results of any and all

marketing campaigns.

The Bluestem culture is very data-centric, and a test-and-learn mentality prevails in the company. This culture created an ideal environment for

Holthaus as a digital marketer because data-driven attribution appeals directly to that data-centric culture and provides the holy grail of

marketing measurement efforts: a precise understanding of how the company’s digital media is impacting incremental sales lift.

Before Bluestem began implementing the Adometry attribution platform, last click or last touch methodology was used in some

makeshift models surrounding the use of catalogs. Bluestem historically was a big catalog retailer. Now, more than half of the purchase

activity is online. Today, when someone purchases online, they have the opportunity to enter a catalog number. If they do, the catalog channel

gets 100% credit for the sale, even though other channels influenced the purchase.

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When Holthaus joined the Bluestem team, he noticed that media

decisions and budgeting was based on the last click attribution

model. Simultaneously, one of the CFO’s objectives was greater

efficiency in media spending, so the company had pursued figuring

out the ideal media weight as a top priority over the previous 18

months. The last click attribution model made it difficult to

determine the ideal media weight with any precision.

Holthaus brought to Bluestem his experience using data-driven

attribution from a previous employer. He understood the

importance of knowing the fractional attribution rate of the

full media stream, so he knew that to fully leverage its media

spending Bluestem needed data-driven attribution to optimize

the marketing spend. Holthaus states:

“As a digital marketer, this was one of the most

important things for us to look at. It’s exciting as a

marketer to understand what’s driving the

incremental impact. Without a data-driven

attribution model, Bluestem could not get to a level

of granularity of how media is working together in

real-time.”

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Holthaus has several industry peers as acquaintances, many in

prominent retail organizations. When he asks them about

attribution, he’s learned that many of these companies aren’t there

yet and are using last click/last touch models, if they’re doing

anything at all. The experience that Holthaus has with data-

driven attribution has helped him position Bluestem ahead of

its peers in understanding how each element in the media

stream is performing and what is the ideal media weight.

Data-driven attribution was not difficult to justify at Bluestem.

Holthaus explains:

“Our CFO is very involved in understanding the

major industry trends. When I arrived, he was

already aware of data-driven attribution and had

inquired about. Bluestem is very focused on results

and understanding data, therefore,

it was not a hard sell.”

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Implementation is also going smoothly.

“The technology side isn’t that bad. I expected it to be harder, but most of the work is

pixel implementation or tagging. Implementing tags across channels hasn’t been as difficult

as it might sound. The process has gone smoothly, better than I expected.”

Because data-driven attribution is an emerging solution, Holthaus expects most marketers to question the metrics and attribution methodology,

to have some skepticism. Holthaus concludes:

“I have seen the data-driven attribution methodology and I believe in it.

It is the right way to look at attribution. It shouldn’t be too difficult for people to get it.”

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SUCCESSFUL MARKETING LEADERSHIP

It wasn’t so long ago that the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

was the shortest tenured executive in the C-suite. The too short

job span of a new CMO was often about 18 months. A new CMO

would replace a fired one who failed to get results. The new CMO

would spend about six months at the front-end figuring out what to

do, often by intuition since there were no systems in place to

provide clear insights, another six months launching initiatives, and

a final six months looking at results. If the plan worked, the CMO

remained employed. If not, the revolving door to the CMOs office

would spin again.

A quantum shift is occurring for CMOs. They are taking more

control of their destiny by becoming more analytical. Data-driven

attribution is playing a key role in the renaissance of the CMO,

providing a comprehensive media performance platform that gives

insights not previously available. With these insights, CMOs are

achieving measurable results that are transforming the

marketing team into a revenue-generating center.

Data-driven attribution also has some serious competitive

implications. In really competitive markets with lots of digital

media, companies not using data-driven attribution will suffer at the

hands of competitors who are. Those competitors will have

clarity of insight about where conversion credit belongs.

Those not using data-driven attribution will buy media that

doesn’t necessarily work, while their smarter competitors will

buy only what’s working. This inevitably leads to a tipping point

in any industry where the few that are ahead of the adoption curve

will accelerate their growth at the expense of companies that aren’t

using data-driven attribution.

Data-driven attribution is playing a key role in the

renaissance of the CMO, providing a comprehensive

media performance platform that gives insights not

previously available.

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In light of the current pressure on marketing to generate revenue

and have accountability, these are the imperatives for today’s CMO:

Marketing Checklist

Get a holistic view. When media performance data does exist,

it’s often in silos. Getting a complete view of this data is the first

step to understanding media performance and optimizing it.

Define the metrics. Marketing must have a set of unified

metrics to evaluate its performance on a fully attributed,

contributed value basis – a true apples-to-apples comparison.

Think beyond digital. It’s easy to think of data-driven

attribution as just a digital marketing measurement solution. In

the real world, campaigns often blend offline media with digital

to produce conversions. The capabilities and benefits of data-

driven attribution are not limited to just digital media.

Invest to win. Use the insights gained from the implementation

of data-driven attribution to optimize channels in the media

stream, as well as tactical optimization within each channel.

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Operationalize the results. Data-driven attribution will provide

a new view of marketing performance. This view should

influence how not just marketing, but also the entire organization

functions. Integrate the results into the budgeting and forecasting

processes, as well as the marketing technology stack.

Address the elephant in the room. Data-driven attribution can

help you know what to do about the mobile channel, the

marketing juggernaut about which many marketing organizations

have their heads buried in the sand. Organizations that don’t yet

have a plan for the mobile channel – and any other channel they

don’t know what to do with – can use attribution insights to

develop a sound strategy.

Marketers in any size company are realizing that

data-driven attribution provides a powerful

mechanism to understand incremental sales lift from

each channel, optimize the media mix and turn

marketing into a true revenue-generating center.

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Jerry Rackley, Chief Analyst

Jerry Rackley is Chief Analyst at Demand Metric. His 30-year marketing career began at IBM, and

includes experience in the technology and financial services sectors.

He has worked with companies ranging in size from startups to members of the global 1000, performing

marketing, marketing communication, public relations and product management work.

ABOUT THE RESEARCH ANALYST

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Each Best Practices Report involves hours of analyst research, focus area specific surveys and comprehensive interviews with executives in a

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Adometry by Google™ transforms the way the world’s top brands improve marketing performance. Acting as marketing's “system of record,”

Adometry solves the complex challenge of integrating, measuring and optimizing marketing performance across all channels (online & offline).

Combining and interpreting previously silo’d sources of data; the Adometry Marketing Intelligence Platform provides data-driven attribution,

modern marketing mix modeling, and intelligent optimization recommendations across and within channels. As a result, marketers are able to

identify their true impact on the customer journey and generate actionable insights that improve ROI.

For more information, visit www.adometry.com.

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