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Measuring the Return on

Marketing Investment
E. Craig Stacey, Ph.D.

The Center for Measurable Marketing at NYU Stern


Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

5 Model Estimation

6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

✓ 1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

5 Model Estimation

6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


“Half the money I spend
on advertising is wasted;
the trouble is I don’t know
which half.”

- John Wanamaker
Corporate marketing is
the last bastion of
unaccountable spending in
corporate America.”

- Eric Schmidt
2008 – 2010 Research Priorities

1. The Need for Marketing Accountability

1. Accountability and ROI of Marketing Expenditures


2. Understanding Consumer/Customer Behavior
3. New Approaches to Generating Customer Insights
4. Innovation
5. Marketing Strategy
6. New Media

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2010 – 2012 Research Priorities

1. The Need for Marketing Accountability

“Marketing Management and Practice in an Evolving


Landscape”

1. Delivering Value through Enhanced Media and Channels


2. Managing Brands in a Transformed Marketplace
3. Allocating Resources to Marketing Activities
4. Leveraging Research Tools and New Sources of Data

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The Center for Measurable Marketing
Research Priorities

1. The Need for Marketing Accountability

• Measure marketing performance and integrate into business


process

• Develop metrics and methods for existing and emerging


communication channels

• Measure and manage brand equity

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Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

✓ 1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

✓ 2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

5 Model Estimation

6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


“Metrics for Making Marketing Matter”
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

Lehmann (2004)
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Marketing Metrics Hierarchy
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

Marketing Capabilities

Marketing Activities (Inputs)

Individual (Customer) level attitudes and behaviors

(Aggregate) Product-market outcomes


Outputs
Financial results (Performance)

Expectations of future performance (Valuation)

Donald R. Lehmann and Dominique M. Hanssens, Marketing Metrics, Wiley International


Encyclopedia of Marketing, 2010.

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Framework for Marketing Performance Measurement
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

What marketers and competitors do


• Advertising
• Price
• Promotions
• Distribution

What customers think & feel


Direct Effect Awareness Consideration Liking Feedback Effect

What customers do

Brand purchases

Adapted from Lehmann and Reibstein (2006)


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Advertising Campaign Testing
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

What marketers and competitors do


• Advertising
• Price
• Promotions
• Distribution

What customers think & feel


Direct Effect Awareness Consideration Liking Feedback Effect

What customers do

Brand purchases

Adapted from Lehmann and Reibstein (2006)


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Brand Health Tracking
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

What marketers and competitors do


• Advertising
• Price
• Promotions
• Distribution

What customers think & feel


Direct Effect Awareness Consideration Liking Feedback Effect

What customers do

Brand purchases

Adapted from Lehmann and Reibstein (2006)


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Marketing Mix Modeling
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

What marketers and competitors do


• Advertising
• Price
• Promotions
• Distribution

What customers think & feel


Direct Effect Awareness Consideration Liking Feedback Effect

What customers do

Brand purchases

Adapted from Lehmann and Reibstein (2006)


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Mindset Metrics & Marketing Mix Modeling
2. A Framework for Marketing Accountability

What marketers and competitors do


• Advertising
• Price
• Promotions
• Distribution

What customers think & feel


Direct Effect Awareness Consideration Liking Feedback Effect

What customers do

Brand purchases

Adapted from Lehmann and Reibstein (2006)


The Center for Measurable Marketing at NYU Stern
Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

✓ 1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

✓ 2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

✓ 3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

5 Model Estimation

6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


Marketing Mix Models…

3. Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

• … are representations of marketing systems that are useful for


understanding the behavior of markets and for predicting the
impact of marketing actions.

• … describe the relationship between performance measures,


such as sales or market share, and controllable variables, such as
price and distribution.

• ... are designed to aid managers in planning and forecasting.

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Maximize Return on Marketing
3. Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

Marketing
ROI

Marketing Incremental
Expenditure Contribution

Costs Margins

Marketing Incremental
Model
Support Volume

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Dimensions of Marketing Planning
3. Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

Product

Time

Geography

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Types of Marketing Planning
3. Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

Product

BRAND
PLANNING
ASSORTMENT
PLANNING

Time
PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT
Geography

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Marketing Mix Planning
3. Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

TRADEMARK

BRAND

PACK/SIZE

ACCOUNT DMA MARKET

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Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

✓ 1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

✓ 2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

✓ 3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

✓ 4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

5 Model Estimation

6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


Model Design

4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

• Model objectives

• Selection of variables

• Relations among variables

• Data sources

• Functional form

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Objectives Specified in Model

4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

• Sales

• Market Share

• Traffic, Average check size, …

• Awareness, purchase intent, …

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Selection of Variables

4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

Examples of dependent
variables:
sales, market share, brand
choice, awareness, attitudes,
trial rates ...

Examples of explanatory
variables:
marketing mix activities, Variables
macroeconomic factors ...

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A Simple Model
4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

Y (Sales Level)

}b (slope of the
a salesline)

}
(sales level when 1
advertising = 0)

X (Advertising)

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Response Function
4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

Max
Sales
Response
Response
Function
Current
Sales
Min

Current
Effort
Effort Level

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Data Sources

4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

• Dependent and Independent Variables

• Internal vs. Syndicated

• Levels of Aggregation

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Multiplicative Models

4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

H
si = exp(α i ) Π xhi ε i βh

h =1

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4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

Q = eB0 XB1
(0 < B1 < 1)
12

10

6
Series1
4

0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120

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4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

Q= e X1 1
B0 B X2B2 ….. X Bj
j

Multiplicative model
• Only highest order interaction
• Constant elasticity model
• Log-log model

Most widely used sales response


function
• Cobb-Douglas Production Function (1928)

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4. MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

lnQ = B0 + B1lnX1
(Linear in logs)
5
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
Series1
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
0 1 2 3 4 5

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Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

✓ 1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

✓ 2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

✓ 3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

✓ 4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

✓ 5 Model Estimation

6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


How Modeling Works
5. Model Estimation

Fit a model… Calculate contributions…


120 100
90
100
80
Advertising
80 70
Promotion
60
60 Seasonality
50
sales

Distribution
40
40 Price
30
20 20 Base

10 Sales
0
0
Sept
Feb

Oct
Apr

Jul
Jun

Aug
Mar

Dec
Nov
Jan

May

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Sales Model

10
to minimize the errors… …over the year
Advertising
15% Base
Promotion 20%
5 12%
Price
sales

17%
Seasonality
0 15% Distribution
21%

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
-5
error

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Example Model
5. Model Estimation

R2 – 0.92
MAPE – 4.4%
Sales Volume

Sales Volume Fitted Model

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Example Model Decomposition
5. Model Estimation

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Outline
Measuring the Return on Marketing Investment

✓ 1 The Need for Marketing Accountability

✓ 2 A Framework for Marketing Productivity

✓ 3 Marketing Mix Modeling and Marketing Planning

✓ 4 MMM: Econometric Time-Series Analysis

✓ 5 Model Estimation

✓ 6 MMM for Today’s Media Landscape


Traditional mix modeling does not work
for integrated online measurement
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

• Treating online marketing (especially digital media) as just


another direct driver of sales leads to misattribution of sales to
drivers and ultimately bad mix decisions
• Even the best of today’s commonly used approaches have failed
to keep up with today’s challenges
• The following picture simply no longer holds true:

TV x PRINT x COUPONS TRADE

X
Online SALES

A far more complex marketplace exists in which online activity acts


as an outcome of offline marketing, as well as a driver of sales.

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A new approach is needed to manage
complexity of the new media paradigm
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

SALES SALES

Paid Paid
Media Media

Owned Owned
Media Media

Earned Earned
Media Media

Trade Trade

Coupon Coupon

Organic Organic
Search Search

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How Marketing Influences Sales
As well as feedback effects
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

TV

In-Store

It’s amazing what


soup can do

Radio

Print

Online
Display
Direct Impact Sales
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How Marketing Influences Sales
Marketing drives customers both directly and indirectly
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

TV

In-Store

It’s amazing what


soup can do

Radio

Print

Online
Display
Direct Impact Sales
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Drivers to Sales
Immediate, Persistent, and Indirect
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

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Knowing what
consumers say matters
7/4/2010

7/18/2010

8/1/2010

8/15/2010

8/29/2010

9/12/2010

9/26/2010

10/10/2010

10/24/2010

11/7/2010
Black Friday
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

11/21/2010

12/5/2010

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Negative
12/19/2010

1/2/2011

1/16/2011

Neutral
1/30/2011

2/13/2011

2/27/2011

3/13/2011
Postitive
3/27/2011

4/10/2011

4/24/2011
Store Promo

5/8/2011
sentiment) is typically monitored

5/22/2011
Level of conversation activity (and

6/5/2011

6/19/2011
Deal
Online

7/3/2011
Coupon

7/17/2011

7/31/2011
PR
Event
Context of conversations matters:
Went to store/made a purchase
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

• Went to store\Made a purchase

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Context of conversations matters:
Store/brand advertisements
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

• Store\Brand Advertisements

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Context of conversations matters:
I love store/brand
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

• I love store\brand

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Drivers of offline store traffic
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

• I love store\brand

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So what can businesses do?
I love store\brand
6. MMM for Today’s Media Landscape

• Track the content, not just volume and valence of social


interaction, and relate to marketing and sales

• Move beyond observer role by targeting paid marketing to


stimulate specific social interactions

• Encourage virtuous circle of social interactions leading to


purchase, which further induces social interactions about
purchase (e.g. Kohls Facebook)

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References

• Lehmann, Donald R. and David J. Reibstein (2006),


Marketing Metrics and Financial Performance.
• Lehmann, Donald (2004), “Metrics for Making
Marketing Matter,” Journal of Marketing.

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