From the monthly archives:

March 2009

“We are Undergoing the Greatest Media Transformation in History”

March 28, 2009

My headline is a quote from Mary Meeker’s “Economy + Internet Trends” presentation published just last week:
Meeker Tech ‘09 – Get more Business Plans
Here are a few of my favorite slides:

Advertisers are willing to pay more for behavioral targeting because behavioral data dramatically increases targeting precision and results in higher campaign response rates. Reach [...]

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Why it’s a Good Thing That Google’s Data Fetish Drove Away Its Top Designer

March 22, 2009

Full disclosure: I am long Google.
Here are a few of the headlines regarding Doug Bowman’s departure from Google:

Google’s Data Fetish Drives Away Its Top Designer
Google’s top designer quits, blames engineers

Bowman writes on his blog, “When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems … I won’t miss a design philosophy [...]

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Link Roundup 3-20-09

March 20, 2009

Here are a few snippets of info I found interesting this week:

My favorite quote from “Media Companies: Fix Or Die” by Diane Mermigas: “The most formidable danger for all media companies mired in the financial crisis is failing to innovate enough to grow in a recovering market.”
In “Performance Marketing And Media Triage” – Gary Kreissman [...]

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Why Data Sampling Leads to Bad Decisions

March 12, 2009

New technologies enabling terabyte-scale data analysis are causing a shift in the market away from sampling techniques. This is good because reducing sampling results in more accurate predictive analysis, which leads to better decisions and ultimately produces good things like:

Increased campaign response rates
Increased website conversion rates
Increased audience engagement
Increased customer loyalty

Chris Anderson’s article, “The Petabyte Age”, [...]

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How To Increase Response Rates by Making RFM Better

March 12, 2009

Here’s another argument for why performance matters – this time a simple one based on a simple concept: RFM. RFM is the foundation of database marketing (Direct magazine’s 2000 subscriber survey reported that at least 75% of consumer and 52% of b-to-b direct marketers maintain standard RFM indicators). RFM is a simple linear modeling technique [...]

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Two Ways Performance Increases Targeting Precision and Response Rates

March 12, 2009

Performance (specifically, query performance and data load performance in the context of a terabyte-scale data warehouse) increases targeting precision. Better targeting precision increases the relevance of content (or advertising) delivered to an audience through digital media. Increasing relevance leads to all sorts of good things, including:

Increased campaign response rates for advertisers
Increased user engagement [...]

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Hammer on Analytics

March 12, 2009

“Analytics, at the end of the day, is going to be the endgame.” – Hammer
Hammer’s take on the value of analytics is 2 Legit 2 Quit. And he smells good. :-) If Hammer is taking analytics this seriously, you’d better be, too.

Click here to view on YouTube. Thanks to Juice Analytics for creating this [...]

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