MC Insights

ARTEMIS ATTRIBUTION WEIGHTING
Managing the Purchase Funnel
April 2009

Given today’s challenging economic times, attribution is critically important because so many organizations are questioning the value of their outbound marketing efforts.

As a global digital agency focused on accountability, Media Contacts has been a leader in using the full exposure path to conversion as a means of understanding the contribution of each element in the digital media mix.

Artemis Attribution Weighting helps marketers credit every digital exposure with the appropriate percentage of sales/revenue. Media Contacts' Artemis team has discovered that 50% of the credit for a sale gets re-allocated to ‘assist’ clicks.

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Previous Editions

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    September 2008
    Better information provides the marketer better knowledge and business insight to properly determine which activities and combinations of activities result in the greatest success or ROI.
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    July 2008
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  • Search Engine Marketing
    December 2007
    During the earliest days of search marketing, innovation from major players such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, among others, focused mainly on the back-end, developing and continuously refining their search algorithms and data collection methods. Though far from sexy, these efforts yielded increasingly refined search results for consumers as well as incremental improvement in campaign performance for marketers.
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    October 2007
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  • RSS
    February 2006
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  • Wireless
    October 2005
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