Forecasting is a valuable tool to help businesses reduce risk and operate more effectively and efficiently. At FORECASTING 2024, leading practitioners and academics shared how they are building forecasting models to understand purchase journeys, the impact of major events on businesses and how brands can reach buyers amidst the lack of first-party data.
Member Only AccessNews You Can Use will feature a series on AI prepared by the ARF’s research team entitled, “AI Dos and Don’ts.” In the first report, the team has discovered a few don’ts.
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the way advertisers find and influence consumers, how success is measured, and the strategies and tools used for experimentation. On July 10, panelists from Google and HP led a discussion on the changing landscape of measurement tools, shifting mindsets from precision to prediction, and leveraging AI-driven tools to achieve marketing and business outcomes.
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This comprehensive model accurately predicts sponsorship retention in marketing. Researchers utilized a dataset of over 5,800 sponsorships to identify the key factors that influence sponsor loyalty and longevity.
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On June 26, Sequent Partners, with their panoramic perspective on the most important developments in marketing analytics, analyzed the most disruptive and revolutionary analytic applications and techniques impacting our world. Plus, attendees got a sneak peek of the themes featured in this year’s upcoming Marketing Analytics Accelerator.
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On June 25, OptiMine dove into the specifics of Google’s privacy changes and revealed how these changes will impact the marketing and measurement landscape. Traditional forms of measurement will no longer be viable as privacy-driven data loss continues to diminish accuracy, coverage and reliability. Attendees gained applicable strategies on how their brands can adapt before it’s too late.
Member Only AccessA new development illustrates the increasing importance of being able to access and analyze audience measurement data from different countries. Read more »
The ARF Member AI workshop introduced members to the potentialities of various AI platforms and tools to boost their work productivity. The workshop covered how LLMs such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude can be employed in three main areas: presentations and reports, advertising research and meetings. Issues such as privacy and security of using AI, as well as the current limitations and challenges of the technology were also discussed. The hands-on, interactive workshop was an opportunity for all those interested in best practices and guidelines for using AI to learn how to interweave such programs into their daily work processes.
Member Only AccessAttention continues to be an important issue that generates new research insights.
Dive into the future of advertising research with this abridged version of the ARF's AI handbook. This Knowledge at Hand report and its accompanying one-page CMO brief describe best practices for utilizing AI tools for different aspects of advertising research. This short report is great for those already using AI and those thinking of interweaving it into their research function.
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