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Case Facts
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* Bazaar uses both display advertising and search engine advertising on
Google and Bing.
* Branded keywords include “Bazaar,” “Bazaar shoes,” and “Bazaar guitar”
* Nonbranded keywords include keywords such as “shoes” and “guitar”.
* Mix of potential customers visiting the company’s website from both search
engines is similar.
* Bing campaign is much smaller than their Google campaign.
* But conversion probability and margin per conversion numbers are the
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* Sponsored ad campaign ran for 12 weeks.
* Google campaign: ran for only 10 weeks and the got suspended due
to technical glitch
* Bing campaign was unaffected by this glitch.
* Issue...
* Issue of effectiveness of Sponsored ads , using ROI as benchmark.
eens oaROI Calculation by Bob
+ Average Cost per click (CPC) for a sponsored click = $0.60
* Once consumers land on Bazaar.com, their average probability of making a
purchase on website, Conversion Rate = 12%
* Average margin per conversion = $21
* Average revenue per click = 0.12 x $21 = $2.52
+ ROI = ($2.52-$0.60)/($0.60), or 320.0%. Great!!!zoom_MG401 Session 18 (DS) 6Oct.mp4.
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* Branded keyword searches mostly done by people seem to be already
aware of our website and actively looking for it.
* Issue of Competitors put their sponsored ad for your branded keywords.
* Run the risk of leakage to competitors.
* Can existing data analysis help?* Bob: “interruption was caused by a technical glitch and not by any
strategic decisions on our side, it would be safe to call this a natural
experiment.”zoom_MG401 Session 18 (DS) 60ct.mp4
Experiments
* To establish causality
* Many designs
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* Test units are randomly assigned to either the experimental or the
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+ A pretreatment measure is taken on each group.
* The treatment effect (TE) is measured as:(0, - 0,) - (Oy - 03).
* Selection bias is eliminated by randomization.
+ The experimental result is obtained by:
(0, - 04) - (04 - 03)
Interactive testing effect is not controlled.zoom_MG401 Session 18 (DS) 6Oct.mp4.
Difference in Difference
* Comparing with data from Bing
Weeks 1-9 Weeks 10-12 W1-9 and W10-12 (Diff 1)
Google 156,585 148,477
Bing 19,597 18,901
Normalized reduction in traffic (Diff 2)+ Average total weekly traffic from Google for weeks 1-9 is 156,585
(cell A15) and
* Average weekly incremental traffic attributable to sponsored ads is
1.62% of the total weekly traffic for that period,
* Average weekly incremental traffic attributable to sponsored ads is
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* Average weekly profit that Bazaar.com makes from the traffic
attributable to sponsored ads is 2,544 x $2.52 or $6,411 411 where
$2.52 is the average revenue per click.
* The corresponding average weekly traffic through sponsored ads is
31,390, which costs\31,390 x $0.60,,0r $18,83 834 where $0.60 is the
average cost per sponsored click.zoom_MG401 Session 18 (DS) 6Oct.mp4.
* Bazaar.com is losing money on sponsored searches and that the ROI is
($6,411 - $18,834)/$18,834, or -65.96%
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