interact 2017 keynote speech: measuring the future by gian fulgoni, ceo & co-founder, comscore
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MEASURINGFOR THE FUTUREHow to Apply Lessons Learned in Media Measurement to Advance the Digital Industry
Dr. Gian FulgoniCEO & Co-FoundercomScore, Inc.23 May 2017For info about the proprietary technology used in comScore products, refer to http://comscore.com/Patents
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Digital is the most measurable medium in the world
...but it’s far from perfect
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Clicks on ads are at best an incomplete –and at worst a misleading – effectiveness metric.
Measure attitudinal and behavioral lifts instead.
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Whither the Click?Only 1 to 4 clicks per one thousand impressions!
Today, very few people click on ads…
Source: Google DoubleClick, November 2016 to April 2017 Click-through rates across static image, flash and rich media formats
0.11% 0.16% 0.20% 0.22% 0.15%
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…and research says clicks don’t predict sales impact
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A negative pattern exists between Sales Lift per Household and Click Through Rate (i.e., as CTR increases, sales decrease)
R2 = -0.039
A regression analysis shows there is no statistically significant relationship between CTR and Sales
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Sales Lift/HH in $
CTR
Sales Lift/HH in $
Click-through Rate
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Self-reported online survey data that requires consumer recall is misleading for cross-channel and
cross-platform measurement.
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Source: comScore behavioral research, via passive observation
Major source of the problem: online survey panelists are heavier-than-average Internet users by a factor of 2 to 3
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Time spent online Pages downloaded
Searches conducted
Dollars spent online
Made online credit card application
Paid bills online
Average User Survey Panelist
AVERAGE USER
Index
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5.0
3.7
Online Survey Behavioral
4.35.4
Online Survey Behavioral
35% OverstatementHours Per Day Online
20% UnderstatementHours Per Day Watching TV
The reality is that online surveys overstate time spent online by 35% – and understate TV time by 20%
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* NRF Survey
Online surveys dramatically overstate e-commerce spend.
E-commerce as % of Discretionary Consumer Spending
E-commerce as % of Discretionary Consumer Spending
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
ONLINE SURVEY*
42%
14%
** Excludes autos, gas and food / bev
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The accuracy of cookie-based targeting leaves
a lot to be desired…
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comScore in-target benchmarks show low demographic targeting accuracy
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39%France
47%Italy
42%Spain
44%UK
Source: comScore vCE Benchmarks, Q1 2017.
% Digital Ad Impressions Delivered to Correct Demographic
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In-target accuracy: why 100% requires audience guarantees and make-goods
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Some targeting infers demography based on content consumption
Nearly 50% of computers are shared, so cookies don’t know who is using the computer at any given point in time
Not all registration data are accurate
Demographic data become outdated
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Industry benchmarks can help media buyers and sellers set campaign delivery
expectations.
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Measurement of Viewability, Brand Safety and Non-Human Traffic provides much-needed transparency in an
increasingly opaque, programmatic world.
“Keeping that digital ad in view makes a real impression”
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About a half of ads worldwide still don’t have the opportunity to be seen
DESKTOP DISPLAY VIEWABILITY RANGES FROM 48% - 55% ACROSS MARKETS
Source: comScore vCE Benchmarks, Global, Q1 2017
Australia48%
UK49%
Germany50%
France50%
Brazil53%
Spain54%
Italy54%
Mexico54%
Canada55%
US55%
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Direct buys see higher viewability than programmatic
DESKTOP DISPLAY DESKTOP VIDEO
DIRECT
PROGRAMMATIC
DIRECT
PROGRAMMATIC
60%
54%
73%
51%
Q1 2017
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High-price video ads attract the most IVT
6% IVTDESKTOP DISPLAY
10% IVTDESKTOP VIDEO
Q1 2017
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Programmatic magnifies the IVT problem
DESKTOP DISPLAY DESKTOP VIDEO
6%4% DIRECT
PROGRAMMATIC 10%4% DIRECT
PROGRAMMATIC
Q1 2017
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Digital media and measurement needs to continue to evolve
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The industry is calling for more focus on IMPACT
“Viewability means opportunity to see [but it has] been confused with fully viewed, was recalled, was effective, made an impact, paid attention, delivered ROI.” – Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer, P&G
“Not every marketer is obsessed with how much time consumers spend with their digital ads or how many pixels they see….They just want their ads to work.”
“Although viewability standards can increase the overall quality of online ads, viewability by itself is not an adequate measurement of ad quality.”
“It seems like a total no-brainer: No one wants to pay for ads that can’t be seen. But viewability is just one factor in an effective campaign…viewability is a useful metric but doesn’t add up as a be-all end-all goal for marketers.”
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As an industry, we must bring focus back to the advertising metrics that matter – and that means accepting viewability as a necessary but not sufficient – and increasing our attention on Unduplicated R/F, GRPs and Lift in Attitudes and Sales
It’s clear: Viewability alone is not enough.
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Measuring for the future in a cross-platform world
• Measurement of unduplicated audiences across platforms at a granular level
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Cross-platform deduplication in action: Millennials exhibited much greater Time Shifted Viewing (TSV) and Digital consumption for a Network TV Series Finale
All Persons P18-34
Digital Only
Live + 7
Live + SD
Live
+21%+3%
+24%
+35%
+8%+43%
Incremental Audience from TSV and Digital
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“We have to get better at cross-platform measurement. Better at de-duplication. We need to understand how much reach we obtain on a campaign across devices.
With the availability of cross-platform data that allows improved media planning, I believe ad spending will increase across all platforms, including television.”
Irwin Gottlieb, Global Chairman, GroupM
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Measuring for the future in a cross-platform world
• Measurement of unduplicated audiences across platforms at a granular level
• Effective frequency capping across platforms
1-2 3-9 10-20 21-50 51+
0.8%
33.3%
1.4%
11.0%
19.6%22.4%
75.4%
23.7%
2.8%9.6%
% PEOPLE
% IMPRESSIONS
MANY PEOPLE RECEIVE TOO FEW IMPRESSIONS
TOO MANY IMPRESSIONS WASTED ON
SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE
Frequency Distributions Are Not Optimal
IMPRESSIONS PER PERSON
50 EXPOSURES15-20 EXPOSURES
POINT LIFT (BRAND)
Contribution of Incremental Exposures Declines Quickly After 20 Exposures
IMPRESSIONS PER PERSON
INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS
MINIMALEFFECTIVENESS
DECLINING EFFECTIVENESS
Implications for Excessive Frequency
v Frequency caps from 20 to 50 are appropriate for most brands
v Exposures above those thresholds are, at best, wasted
v The marginal contribution of an incremental exposure declines quicklyand loses over 90% of its effectiveness even earlier
v The thresholds for wasteful or harmful effects are likely to be lower forinterruptive advertising such as online video ads or pop-up ads
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Measuring for the future in a cross-platform world
• Measurement of unduplicated audiences across platforms
• Effective frequency capping across platforms
• Aligned metrics between TV and Digital Video• - Average minute TV audience vs. number of digital video views
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Measuring for the future in a cross-platform world
• Measurement of unduplicated audiences across platforms
• Effective frequency capping across platforms
• Aligned metrics between TV and Digital Video- Average Minute TV Audience vs. Number of Digital Video Views
• Correct measurement of reach on social media- De-duplicating across followers
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Measuring for the future in a cross-platform world
• Measurement of unduplicated audiences across platforms
• Effective frequency capping across platforms
• Aligned metrics between TV and Digital Video- Average Minute TV Audience vs. Number of Digital Video Views
• Un-duplicated measurement of reach on social media- De-duplicating across followers
• Measurement of cross-platform campaign effectiveness
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3.8%
6.8%8.0%
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Non-Targeted Digital Targeted Digital TV Targeted TV
The value of viewable and addressable puts digital on par with TV
Average In-Store Brand Sales Lift: TV vs. Digital3 Mo. For Digital vs. 1 Yr. for TV
Includes 100% viewable ads
Addressable Digital
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$1.00
$1.19 $1.20
$1.60
TV TV + Print TV + Radio TV + Digital
Source: ARF
A cross platform plan that includes TV & digital can be expected to generate a higher ROI than TV alone
Investing in TV + Digital = +60% ROI
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Measuring for the future in a cross-platform world
• Measurement of unduplicated audiences across platforms
• Effective frequency capping across platforms
• Aligned metrics between TV and Digital Video- Average Minute TV Audience vs. Number of Digital Video Views
• Un-duplicated measurement of reach on social media- De-duplicating across followers
• Measurement of campaign effectiveness• Cooperation of the industry
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THANK YOUGian Fulgoni
@gfulgoni
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