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Published on: 2/27/2007
Last Visited: 9/17/2007
"Accountability for campaigns is entering a new era," said Jamie Davison, President of Modern Media in Halifax."The media has become so fragmented that GRPs, CPM, media spends and other metrics no longer tell the whole story.In fact, traditional measures of campaigns have not kept pace with changes in the marketplace," he added.
Companies investing thousands, or millions of dollars are putting increasing pressure on in-house ad departments and agencies for ads that are more than just funny, or award winning."Of course it's in everybody's interest to deliver entertaining and effective ads - but in addition, clients now want empirical proof that the campaigns are actually working," he said.
Compounding the problem, some larger companies work with multiple agencies and simultaneous campaigns."If you think about it from a strategic perspective - one agency could be doing advertising, another public relations and a third, interactive - without a comprehensive strategy in place.As a result, nobody is measuring the overall effectiveness of the combined efforts - and they could be wasting valuable resources," said Davison.
As a result of its approach to marketing, a number of agencies and companies have contacted Modern Media about the applications of Sift Analytics.Davison said that while the Sift Analytics technology is complex, the application is very straightforward.
"The idea behind Sift Analytics is to help clients create successful campaigns by offering a strategic approach to cross-platform marketing and most importantly, by providing genuine proof of how well everything worked - it's as simple as that," said Davison.