Attributing revenues to marketing touchpoints is one of marketers’ most challenging yet vital tasks. Read on to learn how marketers are approaching the journey to holistic attribution.

In this Meet the Analyst Webinar, Nicole Perrin, eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence, examines the biggest challenges in ad measurement and revenue attribution today, and how marketers are confronting them.

Within digital media channels, probably the longest-standing gap in measurement information lies with the walled gardens—a group that includes Google, Facebook, a host of other walled social platforms, and Amazon. Some in the industry are also talking more of walled gardens—or attempts to build them—in the connected TV (CTV) or over-the-top (OTT) space.

Advertisers have never been under more pressure to prove ROI. Bob Ivins, chief strategy officer at cross-platform TV measurement firm TVSquared, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the remaining deficits in linear TV ad measurement, why it's important to standardize metrics and definitions across traditional and digital TV and video, and why advertisers need to pay attention to the right metrics for their campaign objective.

Major changes are coming to how advertisers and others in the ecosystem can identify users across channels and devices. The loss of third-party cookies and changes to Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA)—rumored to roll out this month—will affect ad addressability, but also measurement and attribution. Advertisers are taking steps in response, including more emphasis on first-party data, data collaborations, and modeling-based approaches.

Measuring the effect of their messages is one of marketers' most vital tasks. Anne Hunter, vice president of product marketing at panel-based insights company DISQO, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to talk about some of marketers' longstanding challenges with measuring ad effectiveness and understanding consumer journeys—and how a consumer-first approach can help.

Most of the avian-themed Privacy Sandbox proposals to date have been about ad targeting, but measurement will also be affected by the planned deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome. Allyson Dietz, director of product marketing at Neustar, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the measurement firm's PeLICAn proposal to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and explain what differential privacy means for ad measurement.

eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin and forecasting analyst at Insider Intelligence Eric Haggstrom discuss what they're paying attention to in 2021 and why: digital ad measurement, connected TV, and ecommerce channel advertising.

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) has been investigating how TV viewership is measured. CIMM CEO and managing director Jane Clarke joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss what the company has learned about using both set-top box and ACR-based measurement, why different attribution providers might show marketers different results, and how close marketers are to speaking the same language about traditional TV and digital video advertising.

eMarketer forecasting analyst Eric Haggstrom and principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin discuss what an advertising rebound will actually look like next year. They then talk about how to reach ad-free streamers, new podcast measurement guidelines, and whether WarnerMedia just killed the movies.

In June, the Media Rating Council (MRC) announced it would be shifting its focus from ad delivery to outcomes in its standards development work. MRC senior vice president of digital research and standards Ron Pinelli joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to talk about what the MRC has learned so far about current measurement and attribution practices, why it's important to have a shared set of standards for measuring outcomes, and whether advertisers are ready for a shift away from user-level attribution.

eMarketer is pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring LiveRamp's Ian Meyers, senior product manager, identity. Ian will clear the air and review the variety of identity solutions in play, revealing why some are better than others for reach, measurement, accuracy, privacy, and security.

eMarketer junior analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch discusses the options that marketers have to utilize Instagram Stories through paid advertising and influencer partnerships. He also talks about measurement metrics that marketers can utilize to determine whether their Instagram Stories strategy is effective.

Consider how the leading social media platforms perform on the dimensions of ad relevance and ad experience. According to Business Insider Intelligence’s June 2020 “US Digital Trust Survey,” Instagram (4.72) and Pinterest (4.64) scored highest on a 1–5 scale on ad relevance. Pinterest also scored well on ad experience (4.70), just behind LinkedIn (4.80).

“Another challenge is measurement. Numeris is looking to expand the measurement universe, which now includes linear TV plus playback, to pick up on nonlinear video consumption more effectively.”. Adding to the measurement complexity is the growth of connected TV (CTV) via internet-connected devices like Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, and smart TVs.

But Facebook’s goal was never to reduce the number of political ads shown; rather, it was to ensure that any political ads running around the election were accurate. Measurement.

Be Aware of the Measurement Limitations. Since many short-video venues are still very new, the measurement capabilities (whether for organic marketing, influencer marketing, or paid advertising) aren’t as robust as on more established platforms. Among the executives we interviewed, most thought that TikTok had built a solid stable of branding-oriented ad measurement tools.

Neustar senior vice president of product and general manager of customer experience Steve Silvers and eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin discuss some misconceptions about cookie deprecation, what marketers should do to prepare for the loss of third-party cookies and react to the loss of Identifiers for Advertisers (IDFAs), and more about future approaches to addressability.

The availability and use of data has revolutionized advertising in recent decades. Shane McAndrew, chief data strategy officer at agency Mindshare, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the new Data Ethics Compass developed with GroupM and Unilever, what consumers expect from advertisers and their partners, and why experimentation is critical to attributing revenues to marketing touchpoints.

Neustar's product marketing director Devon DeBlasio and eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin discuss how the deprecation of third-party cookies and changes to Apple's policies will affect how advertisers can identify and track users across channels and what they can do to continue measuring their success by taking a unified approach.

The pandemic led to lower TV ad spend and increased connected TV viewing this year. The shift in TV viewing means TV audience measurement gaps must be addressed to keep pace with how, what, and where consumers are watching TV.