Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier

Randall Lewis, Justin M. Rao and David Reiley ()

No 19520, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Online advertising offers unprecedented opportunities for measurement. A host of new metrics, clicks being the leading example, have become widespread in advertising science. New data and experimentation platforms open the door for firms and researchers to measure true causal effects of advertising on a variety of consumer behaviors, such as purchases. We dissect the new metrics and methods currently used by industry researchers, attacking the question, "How hard is it to reliably measure advertising effectiveness?" We outline the questions that we think can be answered by current data and methods, those that we believe will be in play within five years, and those that we believe could not be answered with arbitrarily large and detailed data. We pay close attention to the advances in computational advertising that are not only increasing the impact of advertising, but also usefully shifting the focus from "who to hit" to "what do I get."

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Date: 2013-10
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Published as Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier , Randall Lewis, Justin M. Rao, David H. Reiley. in Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy , Goldfarb, Greenstein, and Tucker. 2015

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