Symphony Advanced Media Launches With Accelerated Advertising Performance Measurement | Business Wire

April 11, 2011 06:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

Symphony Advanced Media Launches With Accelerated Advertising Performance Measurement

Company’s cross-media measurement solutions bridge gaps in traditional ad performance measurement to deliver faster, more accurate consumer insights

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Symphony Advanced Media, part of the Symphony Technology Group (STG), has announced their recent company launch. Symphony Advanced Media (SymphonyAM) provides cross-media advertising performance analytics and consumer insights to empower brand advertisers to make more efficient media allocation and segmentation decisions and track the performance of their live campaigns for a higher return on investment (ROI) on their media spend.

“SymphonyAM enables advertisers to get the full value out of their media investments with the right set of fast, actionable, granular insights.”

“As new media platforms emerge, brand leaders must navigate an increasingly complex array of options to engage and influence consumers. It’s more imperative than ever for marketers to fully understand how their media investments—strategically and down to the campaign level—are impacting their brand value and bottom line,” said SymphonyAM CEO Manish Bhatia. “SymphonyAM enables advertisers to get the full value out of their media investments with the right set of fast, actionable, granular insights.”

SymphonyAM recently expanded with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Factor Technology Group, a leading provider of advertising effectiveness measurement. Founded in 1999, FactorTG has executed more than 5,000,000 brand effectiveness surveys for global clients across the media, agency, automotive, CPG, financial services and pharmaceutical categories.

"Over the last two years, we have developed a great partnership with FactorTG to help our clients measure and optimize their advertising effectiveness,” noted Paul A. Pereira, vice president of analytics & search engine marketing at Hill Holiday. “We look forward to expanding this relationship and leveraging SymphonyAM’s access to even more consumer insights data."

“SymphonyAM provides us with critical insights to help us understand the delivery and accountability of our direct-to-consumer media mix,“ said Pamela Stewart, director of consumer market research at Shire Pharmaceuticals. “We are pleased that FactorTG is now part of the larger Symphony Advanced Media organization and we are looking forward to a strengthened partnership.”

SymphonyAM’s advertising effectiveness measurement solutions utilize a unique methodological approach to combine qualitative consumer data with robust quantitative data. The result provides relevant and comprehensive insights about cross-media campaign performance—even on very short, live campaigns. This methodology enables SymphonyAM to address key shortcomings commonly found in traditional advertising measurement approaches, such as slow reporting and the inability to measure low-weight media.

SymphonyAM’s leadership team is comprised of seasoned executives from television, Internet, mobile, social media and consumer research organizations. SymphonyAM is headquartered in Palo Alto and San Francisco, CA, with offices in Princeton, New Jersey and New York City.

About Symphony Advanced Media

Symphony Advanced Media helps clients optimize their integrated channel strategies and media options to rapidly improve campaign performance, increase efficiency and drive more consumer response.

SymphonyAM’s analytics solutions combine behavioral data and survey-based solutions to provide actionable strategic insights on advertising performance across all media, including online, TV and mobile. Clients include leading global brand advertisers in the media, automotive, financial services, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods and telecom industries. Learn more about SymphonyAM at www.symphonyam.com.

SymphonyAM is part of part of Symphony Technology Group (STG), the global leader in marketing intelligence whose portfolio of companies include Symphony IRI, Teleca, and EYC.

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Attribution Modeling ~ Banners, Blondes, & the Bottom Line | Last Click News

Attribution Modeling ~ Banners, Blondes, & the Bottom Line

Published on February 22, 2011 by Mark Hughes   ·   No Comments

C3 Metrics CEO on solving the mystery of your missing profits

Raymond Chandler was the archetype detective storyteller, fond of using hard-boiled heroes, cold-blooded “thugs,” and hot-to-trot “dames” as his characters. One of his favorite quotes was: “I do a great deal of research…particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.”

But solving mysteries with diligent research is also part of our daily regimen in online advertising. Every network, keyword, and overall campaign is a puzzle that sometimes changes week to week. The puzzle is solved with attribution modeling, but we’re just now scratching the surface.

We’d like to think research methods we employ provide facts relevant to “our case.” But, incorrect facts will “never hold up in court.” Today, the facts are wrong.

Despite that Internet advertising (a $70 billion/yr global industry) is the most trackable form of advertising on earth–the facts determining success of those billions of dollars, won’t hold up much longer.

Why? Sadly, today’s outdated online ad tracking systems erroneously give 100% credit to the very last clicked or last viewed ad before a transaction.

Mark Hughes, CEO
C3 Metrics

Example: if four Internet ads contribute to a transaction; today’s outdated systems allocate entire credit to the very last ad, completely ignoring the first three ads which actually drove the revenue.

Zero credit to revenue drivers, and 100% credit to the last ad placed. It’s like discovering the prosecutor put away the wrong guy. Bad facts, bad decisions, bad outcome.

Members of the jury…this is a $20 billion global problem.

Now enter attribution modeling: at C3 Metrics (disclosure, I’m the CEO), a robust attribution model takes an enormous amount of ingredients, and reduces complexity to simplicity.

At a basic level, C3 Metrics’ attribution modeling system assigns credit to Originators, Assists, and Converters within a transaction. An attribution model should capture every online media source from the top of the funnel where sales originate…down to the very bottom of the funnel. So in a $100 transaction, an Originator would receive a fraction of $100 attributed to them—and the Assist and Converter would also receive fractional credit of the $100 attributed respectively.

100% of revenue credit is attributed and split among Originators, Assists, and Converters–accounting for the actual drivers of revenue. Then revenue and respective costs from paid media sources converge in a single, elegant ratio in the attribution model: Attributed Revenue-to-Spend Ratio (ARSR™).

It’s a simple ratio any marketer can grasp: attributed revenue divided by corresponding spend. If you have a 4.0 ratio for a specific keyword, or specific Display campaign–you’re getting $4.00 in revenue for every dollar spent on that particular media source. If you have an ARSR of 1.25 for a particular media buy—you’re getting $1.25 in revenue for every dollar spent there.

For brands that don’t transact dollars on their site, they simply assign a revenue value for: a dealer zip code lookup, configuring a vehicle online, or scheduling an appointment online.

ARSR delivers knowledge ready to act on, versus information barely ready for analysis. The special sauce of the attribution model is the numerator of the ratio (attributed revenue). Media buyers easily identify media sources with high ratios to scale, and low ratios to cut or improve. Instead of taking weeks to analyze, it’s about an hour.

But the jury wants the facts, and here they are: in the longest running attribution modeling study of its kind (2 yrs) the results are enough to get anyone promoted:

a) 25%+ higher revenue on same ad-spend producing millions of dollars in incremental profit
b) Display ROI improvement of 160%
c) Search ROI improvement of 98%
d) Accurate economic model to measure affiliate performance

Case closed. The verdict: millions in profit added to the bottom line.

Are you ready to solve your case with the right facts?

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