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		<title>iMedia Blog Post: Ad Effectiveness Formula for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent iMedia Video Summit, I gave an insight address on the importance of standard metrics and end-to-end measurement in understanding cross-platform video advertising effectiveness. The following is a re-post of Kyle Montero&#8217;s blog post entitled &#8220;Nielsen&#8217;s Simple Formula for Measuring Ad Effectiveness&#8221; which summarizes key points of my speech. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- At the (ridiculously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4645&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Reach &#8212; The Promise of Cross-Platform Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching TV the other night, I saw an ad for Brand X. And another. And another and another. After the fourth viewing, I thought “Enough! How many times do I need to see the same ad during the same program?” Maximizing the audience reached at 1+ frequency—meaning that as many consumers as possible see your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4558&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MediaPost TVBlog Interview &#8212; The 3R&#8217;s of Advertising Effectiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a repost of David Goetzl&#8217;s November 27, TVBlog post: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; There’s no sense for advertisers to ever be fully satisfied with the effectiveness of their messaging and tactics. So, they’ll always be in search of more data and the finish line will keep moving. But here’s at least one enticing landing spot: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4622&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Prediction Learning Curves Can Improve Your Ad Effectiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his fascinating new book “The Signal and the Noise,” New York Times political blogger Nate Silver discusses the concept of the “Prediction Learning Curve.” The prediction learning curve maps the relationship between effort and prediction accuracy. Not surprisingly, the relationship strongly resembles the well-known Pareto effect—e.g. about 20% of the initial effort (time, money, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4562&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Innovation &#8211; A Conversation with Group M&#8217;s Chief Digital Officer Rob Norman</title>
		<link>http://randallbeard.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/paley-center-media-interview-rob-norman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Paley Center for Media hosted their Innovation without Borders conference. I had the pleasure of leading a discussion with the inimitable Rob Norman, the Chief Digital Officer of Group M. In our discussion, Rob and I debated the fragmentation of the media landscape, the increasingly simultaneous consumption of media,  the need for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4578&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Marketers Are Still Struggling with Social Media (and what to do about it)</title>
		<link>http://randallbeard.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/marketers-struggling-social-media-and-what-to-do-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the one-time CMO of a large global wealth management business with severe reputational issues during the 2007 financial crisis, I struggled mightily with how to engage with and use social media to help my brand. Five years later, you’d think things would be better. But almost all of the CMO’s and Marketing leaders I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4564&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Target Audience Really See Your Digital Ads ?</title>
		<link>http://randallbeard.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/do-consumers-see-digital-ads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great promises of digital advertising is precision and measurement. With bits and bytes, we should be able to target our brands ads to consumers with a level of precision that could be only dreamed about in the mass TV medium. But alas, this is also the great fiction of digital. The reality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4527&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Digital Advertising Work Harder for Your Brand</title>
		<link>http://randallbeard.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/how-to-make-digital-advertising-work-harder-for-your-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world moves inexorably digital, Marketers increasingly want to understand how to improve the effectiveness of their digital ad spending. Digital Metrics and Ad Effectiveness In many ways, the digital revolution has been its own worst enemy—at least for brand advertisers. Supposed great advances beyond TV metrics like the focus on direct click-thru rates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4505&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing the Trust Deficit in Advertising</title>
		<link>http://randallbeard.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/addressing-trust-deficit-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers increasing lack of trust doesn’t begin and end with government and other large public and private institutions. It applies to advertising as well. This should hardly be a surprise to anyone. Who trusts ads anyway? What’s surprising is that advertising continues to work as well as it does when the majority of consumers say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4513&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ways to Spend Less and Get More with your Advertising</title>
		<link>http://randallbeard.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/get-more-with-your-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is axiomatic in advertising that if your ad isn’t noticed or remembered, you&#8217;re wasting your money. Simply put, consumers can’t buy your brand if they don’t notice or remember your ad. Thus, “breakthrough,” or how well consumers remember your ad, is THE foundational metric for in-market advertising effectiveness. There’s a second important reason for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randallbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7310465&#038;post=4496&#038;subd=randallbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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