Introduction to Marketing Attribution
Attribution is a common term in the world of digital marketing. Marketing attribution is used by marketers to determine the roles played by different channels in their marketing campaign. Attribution is essential to the success of digital marketing and helps marketers to give credit to who did what and how much. Despite the importance of attribution to marketing, companies find it hard to achieve 100 percent attribution because of different challenges in the marketing channel. This article will provide a brief introduction and shed some light on the subject of marketing attribution.
Definition of Marketing Attribution
According to the Definitive Guide to Marketing Attribution, "Attribution refers to the science of determining what media is driving purchase." By this definition, we understand that marketing attribution weighs the impact of every channel on customer interaction and use this to optimize future marketing strategies of a company. Marketing attribution measures users’ interaction and touch-points, and this gives a clear picture of the customer behavior across different marketing platforms. There are different models of marketing attribution, and they include Last Click,
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The purpose of this report is to analyse a digital marketing campaign which is ‘Share a Coke’. Market campaign will be analysed two categories of Social Media, which are Social Community Media and Social Publishing Media. Whether ‘Share a Coke’ is successful can be proved through two criteria for analysis of marketing campaigns: growing sales and getting closer to customers.
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the classical cornerstone of contemporary political science. The two contradicting methods of participation in public life, community-based decision making, holding public office, and government selection and operations in both states mark the continuous dilemma that divided people, historians and politicians: Democracy or Dictatorship? While the Athenians were credited with the inception of democracy and the distribution of political power, Spartans were considered a role model of a classical dictatorship that glorified nationalistic and militaristic conventions. This paper compares and contrasts the political system and public life in ancient Athens and Sparta and examines the similarities and differences of the governmental structures of both states.
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In the last decade, the smart phone revolution brought significant opportunities to marketers who are seeking reliable engagement with customers (Bellman et al. 191). The Apple iPhone can be described as turning point, the first true handheld computer. This change leads to over 100,000 interactive application (“apps”) developments and improvements, also challenged other smartphone platforms, such as Google Android-powered phones. Moreover, marketers also started seeking numerous benefits from branded apps, in other words, software that is downloadable to mobile device which displays a brand identity by name and appearance of a brand logo (Bellman et al. 192). The main advantage of branded apps as a marketing device is that they have high customer engagement, “push” advertising rather than “pull”. In other words, “push” advertising is giving a control and option consumers, such as download and use the apps they want, instead of sending ads even though consumers don’t want to see them (Bellman et al. 191). This study tested the effects of branded apps in an experimental setting, for instance, a particular comparison in apps, and distinguish between consumer activities based on eight apps from major brands (Bellman et al. 192).
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