4. “The practice of attributing credit to all
marketing exposures that led to a website
conversion event, rather than attributing all
credit to the exposure immediately preceding
the conversion.”
As defined by Forrester
11. Multi steps in most conversion paths
Advertisers assign the value to the last
touch point before conversion
CPA as a result guides people to invest
at a point where most purchase
decisions have been made
By only rewarding the goal scorer we’re
going to create a team of biased
one-sided players
14. • Justifying digital spend
• Building understanding of purchase decision
• Optimising media mix
• Measure cross channel and intra channel interaction and impact
• Tighter control over budgeting and improved ROI
• Ability to measure spend on prospects that don’t convert
18. Evolving a model can give you what you want
A discount on brand as customer already aware of you. More weighting on Generic as you
compete with others in market place
25. • Is your company culture or data ready
• Channel leaders must buy in
• Avoid focusing on single channel reviews
• Models can get complex and implementation can be tricky
• Campaigns should evolve in parallel to insight and learning –
models must adapt
•Be wary of the way you incentivise the providers
28. • Attribution will improve your digital landscape – shines a light
on the dark funnel
• There is no one-size-fits-all solution – test, refine, test etc
• Not be viewed in isolation, it forms a piece of the puzzle when
analysing data
• Be careful with implementation and rewarding
• Split your funnel to help with targeting
31. But, by assigning value to all touchpoints through
split funnel path, a brand will be better equipped to
serve the right ad to the right person at the right
time an ultimately improve ROI
Intro about me – working in marketing for 13 years, mainly focused in digital in last 8
His world was print, coupons and so on
Nowadays I know my Out Of Home Ads have an effect, but only digital – through attribution - gives me a full view of where my marketing pounds are best spent
A dry slide that makes sense but doesn’t really bring to life the solution
2015 Champions league winners
Gerard Piqué - Andrés Iniesta - Jordi Alba - Lionel Messi
Talk about Messi being the conversion machine. A true great whose sole job is to put the ball in the net
Others play a part in the goal – midfield pass. Defenders stop attacks
Putting the pitch into a lovely marketing funnel
So if penetration is still rather low what is the view most companies still take…
If we only assign credit to the last interaction we will naturally always favour, and therefore prioritise, that action
Messi is 5ft 6 and I’m sure he’d be better than me in Goal but probably not as good as Stegen (Barca keeper)
Who wants to watch a bunch of goal hangers scrap to kick the ball across the line
So if we understand a little but more about what it is what are the key benefits?
Justifying digital spend
Building understanding of purchase decision
Optimising media mix
Measure cross channel and intra channel interaction and impact
Tighter control over budgeting and improved ROI
Ability to measure spend on prospects that don’t convert
Discuss the improvements PWN have seen in ROI from media. Been able to make efficiencies and drive increased registrations
I can now justify the mainly brand/pushed based display as I know the effect on other channels
Last click does not help you understand the full path to purchase
You’re focusing your attention on the 2% of customers who actually convert
Think of all the data points along the infinite journey. If only looking at conversion you are using 0.00000?. That’s not a lot
Last click – credit to the last click before purchase
First click – attribution of credit to first click in customer journey
First touch – credit to first touch point which initiated the journey
Recency – attributing a weighted value based on impact of touch a recency on a time decay model
Engagement - attributing a weighted value based on Recency and, for example, time on site
Linear – all the value assigned evenly across path
Taking a model and making it fit for your own purpose.
All the key models leverage the last touch so generally what ever the model you’ll see…
Clicks are worth more than impressions
A click today is worth more than a click yesterday
An impression today is worth more than an impression yesterday
For every day before an ‘conversion’ event both a click and an impression had less and less influence over that event
A new way to view attribution – moving away from the single funnel approach
All the key models leverage the last touch. Creates a proximity bias which tend to over weight the end of the funnel.
People retargeting when they should be prospecting.
People serving huge volumes via high frequency caps etc
Segregate buys, retargeting versus prospecting etc
Adding another data point helps to give perspective. Splitting at first point of landing on site.
Prospecting vs retargeting
Moving from 3rd to 1st party data
All online converters do one thing other than converting… they all visit the site at least once.
All online converters do one thing other than converting… they all visit the site at least once
Reward people for wanting to drive customers to your site
Move away from last touch conversion and think about the type of buy
Is your company culture or data ready – siloes groups not thinking holistically will struggle
Channel leaders must buy in. Attribution can effect bonuses due to changes in credit. Need buy in to avoid in fighting between channels
Avoid focusing on single channel reviews – works best looking at channel through channel
Models can get complex and implementation can be tricky
Campaigns should evolve in parallel to insight and learning – models must adapt
Be wary of the way you incentivise the providers – been known to game the system
Multiple models
Multiple partners to help
Your data will determine what rules are used
Attribution will improve your digital landscape – we’ve seen as much as a 30% improvement in efficiency of certain channels