Analytics & Data Science

Micro Targeting Can Dramatically Improve Facebook Performance

  • Steve Meester; Newcombe Clark
  • AIG Rapid Learning Lab

The authors describe a series of design experiments used to optimize Facebook targeting and retargeting to buyers of travel insurance. Using different creative for different micro-targets, the authors raised prospecting sales lift by four times and retargeting sales lift by 60%. Additional findings included that age did not determine click thru rate, but under thirty-five and over sixty-four rarely purchased.

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Principles of Data Quality

  • Gerard Broussard
  • The Coalition of Innovative Media Measurement

To improve data quality, the marketing and advertising industry could establish a “Principles of Data Quality” disclosure; create a roster of items to ask of data suppliers; request transparency—data firm disclosures—including consumer authentication procedures, multiple data source descriptions, model target techniques and testing results, recency of data, integration techniques, data labeling, and top-line descriptions for all of the above; create best practice standards.

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Learn How to Train LLMs to Identify Implicit Consumer Needs

This study explores the potential of large language models (LLMs) to revolutionize marketing research. By partnering with a Fortune 500 food company, the authors replicated qualitative and quantitative studies using GPT-4. The findings indicate that LLMs can effectively generate synthetic respondents, moderate in-depth interviews and perform data analysis tasks, matching or even surpassing human performance in certain aspects. The study highlights the benefits of a Human-LLM hybrid approach, where LLMs assist in various stages of the research process, from study design to data analysis. This approach not only enhances efficiency but also uncovers new insights that might be overlooked by human researchers alone.

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Get the Intel on Artificial Intelligence

Some say Artificial Intelligence is a broad field that includes everything from simple if-then rules for playing Checkers to complex ensembles of deep neural networks for piloting autonomous vehicles. In marketing, AI is a term that is applied to several very different techniques and functions. However, the bigger questions are: how do you best implement AI and what are the commercial solutions?

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Adapt to Achieve Real Time, Right Time, Right Person

  • Maggie Merklin, Ben Waters; Analytic Partners

Because we cannot yet map identity across all devices and online to offline, we must use hybrid data models, combining market mix models with multi-touch attribution to enhance advertising efforts. Three case studies illustrate the learning that can result. One example: a retailer was able to deliver different ads to different customers at different times of the year. Raising advertising ROI by 26%.

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