As the digital media and marketing business continues to evolve the
interest in passive response from digital display (banners, video and
non-search mobile) is growing. Although the banner is almost 20 years
old now (born c. 1995) the legacy obsession with click-based response
measurement and simplistic attribution is only now beginning to collapse
thanks to new tools and better methodologies.
Bravo...it's about time.
Dax Herman who heads-up search-targeted display ad network Chango recently put together an elaborate white paper, Viewthrough Attribution Exposed: What last Touch Isn't Telling You.
I had the opportunity to work with Chango in an ecommerce setting over
the past year and found their interest in and approach to meaningful
analytics for their near (but not quite) bottom of the funnel ad media
refreshing and collaborative.
Recently, Dax asked for
my POV on viewthrough measurement which you'll find a snippet of in the
white paper; this also led to a recent post, here at the Tip of the
Spear Blog: Viewthrough Incrementality Testing.
More broadly, we're planning to collaborate with other digital
advertising leaders to further viewthrough measurement...it won't be
easy but it needs to happen.
Viewthrough.org Coalition
If
you or your company has an interest in viewthrough measurement and
attribution please get in touch to learn more about collaborating on
the Viewthrough.org effort; as
part of this effort we're looking to work with leading measurement
technologies, digital marketers and especially the DAA/IAB to
standardize the definition of viewthrough.