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People have more media choices than ever to research the products and services they buy. CMOs are
challenged to rationalize their budgets and demonstrate increasing ROI while embracing new media and
distinguishing the media consumptions of their customer. Next generation media mix optimization is how
winning marketing organizations will allocate their investments to target high-value audience and media options,
while delivering accurate attribution, cross channel measurement and tools for high-performance planning.
The world is more complex. Your company’s audience — your existing and prospective customers — have changed and
so must your marketing. Consumers are connected to a greater array of devices and media outlets than ever before.
They Twitter and browse social networks on smart phones, check email in their local coffee shops, and choose from over
100 TV channels every day1. They seek and use information: 51% of U.S. and UK consumers always compare products
and services before a purchase; only 5% rely upon advertising or promotional features for advice2. In this cacophony of
change, 80% of CEOs believe their brand delivers a superior customer experience yet only 8% of their customers agree3.
And, only one in five “targeted” online ads actually reaches its intended audience4.
s !RE YOUR MEDIA INVESTMENTS DELIVERING AGAINST THE PROMISE OF RETURN ON MARKETING INVESTMENT
s #AN YOU IDENTIFY AND TARGET THE APPROPRIATE AUDIENCE USING THE MOST EFlCIENT MEDIA TOOLS
s #AN YOU PROPERLY ATTRIBUTE AND TRACK MARKETING EFFORTS ACROSS MEDIA INVESTMENTS
s !RE YOU BETTER THAN YOUR COMPETITOR AT OPTIMIZING A SOPHISTICATED MEDIA MIX
These are very difficult questions. Gaps in answers create immense issues: Waste — 47% of U.S. ad spend reaches the
wrong audience5. These gaps in delivery accuracy mean that when marketers can’t align their target audience strategy
closely to their ad delivery, they make investment decisions based upon averages and educated hunches, causing them
to overspend on low value customers and media channels while under spending on the high value ones. Given the top
30% of a brand’s customers are typically five times more profitable6, the inability to create certainty in audience and
media management costs advertisers huge profits.
To address these challenges, many companies are turning to the next generation in media mix optimization, delivering
high-performance audience and media management. Designed to optimize the performance of media mix investments,
the solution takes the guesswork out of planning — helping marketers to better orchestrate and execute their
marketing strategy.
Challenges to effective
media mix optimization
Today’s chief marketing officer is tasked to deliver incremental customer is a static average. The reality is that
increasing results in the face of decreasing or flat budgets, only 30% of customers typically return a profit, yet cost as
while also adopting and embracing technology changes much to acquire as the 50% that are profit-neutral, or the
that influence consumers. Here are some of the key 20% that actually cost you money to service. To significantly
challenges: increase your ROI, consider the impact of customer value
and target your best customers first.
Existing media mix optimization
solutions break on several levels
,EGACY SOURCES FOR MEDIA MIX OPTIMIZATION — While
While nearly all top marketing executives have used or
advertising agencies and consultants have driven media
researched solutions in this area, there are many who
optimization solutions for many years, there are issues
have not experienced success or have seen that success
to consider:
wane in recent years.
s !DVERTISING AGENCIES CAN PRESENT AN IMPROPER
alignment of business objectives and tend to focus on
,EGACY NOMENCLATURE — The delineation between
the channels of their expertise. This is natural as their
traditional mass advertising (ATL – Above the Line) and
talent also pools around those areas of expertise.
promotional or addressable-based advertising (BTL –
And, while primarily done through test programs,
Below the Line) efforts is blurring. The continued increase
the connection to actual consumer behavior and
in media addressability is delivering new opportunities,
correlation to revenue lift is usually soft, at best.
like household based television commercials driven
s %CONOMETRIC MODELS HAVE LONG BEEN USED BUT INVARIABLY
from advertiser segmentation and data insight. While
rely upon superhuman leaps in assumptions and
optimization efforts tend to focus on either ABT or BTL, in
footnotes in their reports to achieve their mathematical
the end, one consumer is the same person whether they
summations. Also, they tend to focus on either ATL
view a TV commercial or receive a display advertisement.
or BTL programs, limiting their effectiveness to drive
And, they see your brand as one entity… regardless of
performance and attribution, while fragmenting the view
organizational and technological silos.
of current and future customers.
US Adults (millions)
Fast-forward to the current decade. Today’s
250 All US Adults teen has become a moving target. Nearly all
are double or triple tasking while watching TV.
Mobile Phone
200 Internet U.S. teenagers trust information from each
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other 5X more than adults and 10X more than
150 ads11. If you think about what this world looks
Laptop like 5 to 10 years from now, this scenario will
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100 Digital Still Camera be even more complex as this demographic
will be your future target. It will pay to get on
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channels, more screens and more data than ever and the
rate of change is increasing. Adoption driven by accessibility Complicating this, pushing more “noise” at consumers
and affordability, technology enables consumers to access who have become increasingly insensitive to the charms
a vast wealth of information, on their terms. Starting in the of marketers has proven to risk exacerbating the issue and
last few decades, the trajectory of change has ramped up drives negative long term brand impressions.
fast and is not projected to slow down.
The solution: Next generation media mix
Selecting one of the top spend channels, TV, we can optimization
see dramatic intra-channel shifts: From a peak year in Next generation media mix optimization seeks to develop
mass TV advertising, 1965, until 2002, the number of a causal relationship between consumers, segments to
60-second spots necessary to reach 80% of one’s target response, and to drill down into which media mix actually
audience has increased from three to 1178. Translating this drives consumer behavior for your high value audience.
to trust and recent research surrounding brand message It reduces the guesswork through better attribution;
acceptance, 60% of respondents said they need to hear quantifying media mix decisions through causal channel
information about a company three to five times before contributions to sales. The solution is designed to
they believe it9. Correlating these two points, an advertiser eliminate misleading performance measures and align the
would need to provide at least 351 60-second TV spots marketing organization through common goals.
to provide sufficient TV exposure to satisfy 80% of one’s
target audience need for message acceptance. This,
all while nearly 40 million U.S. households have DVR
capabilities and 59% of them “currently use a DVR to skip
through the commercials.”10
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1
Nielson, 2008
2
Alterian ““Your Brand: At Risk? Or Ready for Growth?”, 2010
3
Bain & Company, “Closing the Delivery Gap”, 2005
4
Comscore, 2009
5
Rex Briggs and Greg Stuart, ”What Sticks: How most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds”, 2006, Kaplan Publishing
6
Acxiom, average customer analysis
7
Forrester Research, 2009
8
Tim Stengel, former CMO at P&G
9
Edelman Trust Barometer, 2009
10
eMarketer — Mintel, “Attitudes toward Traditional Media Advertising and Promotional marketing — US”, 2009
11
eMarketer — Deloitte, “State of the Media Democracy Fourth Edition: Select US Highlights”, 2009
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