Audience & Media Measurement

• Research & Data Quality
• Article

CIMM’s Cross-Platform Video Measurement & Data Summit

• CIMM

Cross-platform media measurement has never been more crucial. Fortunately, industry experts met recently at the 10^th Annual CIMM Cross-Platform Video Measurement & Data Summit to discuss recent advancements across the industry, and what needs to be done to arrive at solutions. CIMM CEO and Managing Director Jane Clarke opened this year’s virtual event by outlining the organization’s vision for developing more effective cross-media measurement. She revealed the “building blocks” to such an endeavor: TV census-like data, digital census data, cross-media or “Linked” panels and ID resolution. Clarke also outlined the state of measurement as it stands now.

• Targets & Segments
• Article

Apple IDFA & Google FLoC: How Tracking Changes Will Impact You (Event Summary)

• INSIGHTS STUDIO

Earlier this year, Google announced they plan to stop individual ad tracking. Apple is also altering the landscape of the advertising ecosystem with its iOS 14 IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) update. Ad targeting, personalization, measurement and fraud detection are predicted to be negatively impacted and the implications — and potential revenue loss — for brands, ad networks, publishers are huge.

At this Insights Studio: Member Broadcast, OptiMine, Havas Media and CIMM discussed exactly how Google and Apple’s changes will impact you and why they matter, how brands should think about future-proofing their advertising measurement in an environment of increased data privacy and strategies for future success.

Speakers:

Matt Voda — CEO, OptiMine
Sargi Mann  — EVP, Digital Strategy, Havas Media
Moderator: Jane Clarke  — CEO, Managing Director, CIMM

• Research & Data Quality
• Article

Best Practices in Media and Market Research Studies

• Dr. Horst Stipp, EVP, Research & Innovation, the ARF
• KNOWLEDGE AT HAND; CMO BRIEF

Surveys are a necessary tool for exploring consumer behavior, attitudes and intentions. They provide valuable data to help make informed business decisions. However, quality matters and ignoring best practices impacts the validity and reliability of findings, which might make the data unusable.

• Past Event Highlights
• Article

Let’s Talk — Measuring Conversation Impact (Event Summary)

• INSIGHTS STUDIO

This focused ARF Insights Studio presented analytics leaders from Twitter and Mondelēz International who shared how brands can analyze conversational patterns to maximize business outcomes, influence brand conversions and further understand campaign effectiveness. Twitter also shared details and business outcomes of a recent brand equity study that it performed on itself.

• Research & Data Quality
• Article

Future of Forecasting (EVENT SUMMARY)

• DATAxSCIENCE

At DATAxSCIENCE 2020 — an information-packed event featuring six presentations, two panel discussions, and a one-on-one interview — approaches to and problems with forecasting were discussed through the lens of the 2020 Presidential election and other applications.

• Creative & Branded Content
• Article

Are Your Display Ads Effective or Annoying?

• MSI

Today, advertisers have the power to control media scheduling and increase the frequency of individual-level display-advertising exposures. But is it always a good idea to draw consumer’s attention this way? The popularity of ad-blocking software suggests not.

• Research & Data Quality
• Article

How Researchers Can Learn from Recent Political Polling Challenges (Event Summary)

• LA Council

This event was suggested by the ARF’s LA Media Research Council in the aftermath of the poor performance of last November’s election polls.  Council members felt that the discussions about polling could impact trust in consumer and media research and that we should explore what research suppliers are doing to implement Best Practices.

Research Quality has always been a key issue for the ARF. Most recently, an ARF event about the November polls found that while some issues are unique to political polling, many impact all survey research, for example, obtaining representative samples while response rates are declining, validity of responses, and predicting behavior and attitude trends.

• Targets & Segments
• Article

Inside the Journal of Advertising Research — Sixes, A.I. and Media Metrics (Event Summary)

• INSIGHTS STUDIO

At this Insights Studio, a global panel synthesized their work published in the Journal of Advertising Research on creative strategies for six-second video ads, radio ad-avoidance measures, facial coding analysis of ad sharing, and TV ad effectiveness. Creative trends, generational differences (e.g. Gen Z vs. older audiences) and the power of advertising preferences were among talking points in the concluding Q&A.