On August 5, the ARF Women in Analytics launched the 2026 Mentorship Program and discussed tips for growing and maintaining their connections. Attendees learned the methodology behind how their matches were determined and heard from past mentor-mentee pairs about their experiences and ideas for building a successful relationship.
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Artificial intelligence is becoming deeply embedded in advertising and marketing, but adoption alone is no longer the story. In this guest article for The Advertising Club of New York, ARF Senior Director of Research & Insights Tracy Adams examines findings from the ARF's latest AI research, which reveals that while organizations are increasingly confident in AI-generated outputs, many are still developing the testing, governance and measurement practices needed to ensure those outputs deliver meaningful business value.
Randomized controlled trials remain the gold standard for measuring advertising effectiveness, but they are often too costly and complex to deploy across every campaign. This MSI Working Paper introduces Predicted Incrementality by Experimentation (PIE), a new framework that uses data from a limited set of experiments to predict causal advertising effects for campaigns that are not directly tested. The research demonstrates that PIE can dramatically outperform traditional attribution metrics, offering marketers a practical way to scale causal measurement without scaling experimentation itself.
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Retail Media Networks (RMNs) have become a cornerstone of modern advertising, but measurement practices across networks remain inconsistent and difficult to compare. This new ARF study examines 16 major RMNs to uncover how advertising assets, attribution systems, incrementality testing and closed-loop measurement are actually implemented in practice. The findings reveal that while reporting dashboards may appear unified, the underlying measurement systems often rely on disparate sources of retailer data, platform reporting, modeling and privacy-safe integrations. The report offers practical guidance for advertisers evaluating retail media investments and highlights the growing need for industry-wide measurement transparency and standards.
Member Only AccessCIMM (The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement) held its 11th Converged TV Measurement and Data Summit on February 16 and 17, 2022. The Summit brought together marketers, media agencies, media companies and vendors to discuss solutions for converged TV measurement, including the emergence of multiple currencies. Read more »
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Marketing effectiveness analytics is undergoing a profound transformation. As marketers face growing complexity across channels, data sources and consumer journeys, artificial intelligence is accelerating the shift from retrospective measurement toward dynamic, decision-oriented systems. This paper examines a decade of innovation in marketing analytics, highlighting the rise of integrated measurement frameworks, experimentation, machine learning and emerging AI-powered modeling approaches that promise to reshape how organizations understand and optimize marketing performance.
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At the Women in Analytics luncheon during the ARF Commerce & Shopper Intelligence conference, inspiring female leaders shared defining moments of bravery—how they silenced self-doubt, navigated opposition, and turned fear into triumph. Attendees had the opportunity to participate in an energizing conversation and build meaningful connections with like-minded peers.
Member Only AccessCIMM (The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement) held its 11th Converged TV Measurement and Data Summit on February 16 and 17, 2022. The Summit brought together marketers, media agencies, media companies and vendors to discuss solutions for converged TV measurement, including the emergence of multiple currencies. Read more »
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