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Incrementality testing earns marketers' top trust May 19

60% of US senior decision-makers trust independent incrementality testing most among marketing measurement solutions, 20 points ahead of media mix modeling (40%) and nearly double in-platform reporting (37%), according to a January survey from Haus.

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