It often seems like marketers don’t have much time to actually market. Especially when most hours in the day are spent manually measuring mind-numbing metrics like viewability, completion and other important video KPIs. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for the creative or gratifying parts of the job.
At Turn we don’t believe that marketers should be worrying about whether their ads were viewed when they could be focusing on the big picture. To that end we created performance algorithms that achieve up to three goals at once, freeing our clients from rote tasks and allowing them to judge whether their ads have been effective, rather than just if they were seen.
https://digiday.com/sponsored/turnsbl2-005-mind-numbing-metrics-how-algorithms-help-marketers-get-back-to-being-creative/
You can almost set your watch to it. Yesterday, in the heat of an upfronts season in which TV stalwarts are taking pots at digital media, Facebook announced its 10th measurement error since September. Per usual, Facebook’s mistake elicited demands from ad buyers for more third-party verification on the platform. And the collective effective of the errors is getting on buyers’ nerves.
“There is a general sense of ‘what could be next,’” said Jessica Baum, media director at Traction. “Even though the last error was smaller in scope, it still impacts overall trust.”
Facebook’s latest error stems from a bug that led it to miscalculate how often users clicked through its carousel ad units, which let brands show multiple images and link to their properties. Facebook declined interview requests for this story....
https://digiday.com/marketing/facebook-measurement-errors/
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