Interactive agency Avenue A “Basically this is a technique that bridges the gap between what people “There’s kind of an assumption in advertising and marketing that if you Avenue A said five clients have already signed up for the service but The new service comes as survey data is becoming increasingly important Last month, Dynamic Logic also released an addition to its AdIndex Post-campaign consumer tracking also remains a hot area, especially as is offering a new service to
clients that aims to better measure and track online advertising
effectiveness.
The Seattle-based firm’s BrandOptics service, which it’s launching through a
partnership with survey technology firm SuiteSmart, tracks the responses of
Internet users exposed to a client’s online ads or e-mail, or who have
visited a client’s site, registered for a newsletter, and so on.
Similarly to offerings from firms like Dynamic Logic, BrandOptics uses
surveys to glean anonymous information of how a campaign or site influenced
users’ brand perceptions. But the service also uses cookies to track,
anonymously and in aggregate, whether viewers later made an online purchase
or registered for more information or e-mail updates.
The benefits to such a combination of survey and post-impression tracking
data could prove significant. Advertising-effectiveness surveys usually ask
consumers whether seeing ads changed metrics that could point to whether a
campaign was successful — such as their buying intent. But by using
cookie-based tracking, BrandOptics would verify whether the campaign led to
actual sales, rather than by simply relying on stated intent.
say they do, and what they do. It answers a fundamental question — I do
research , I learn my campaign changes people’s attitudes of my company, and
then I go home and feel good, but I don’t really know what happens after
this,” said Avenue A President Clark Kokich.
cold improve attitudes and purchase intent that it would translate into
sales,” he added. “This is a way to quantify that.”
declined to identify them. The firm does not have any immediate plans to
offer the service as a standalone offering outside its agency client roster,
such as a technology offering through its Atlas DMT unit.
to the online advertising world as both marketers and publishers seek to
justify Web ad spending. New York-based Dynamic Logic and several of its
peers have been fundamental in a number of high-profile studies orchestrated
by industry trade groups like the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which seek
to promote the medium to advertisers.
product that ads survey support to e-mail campaigns.
offline marketers become more Web savvy. DoubleClick’s
Abacus unit and consumer data giant Experian have also taken steps to track
the efficacy of cross-media advertising and promotions, as have a number of
incentive marketing players.
Avenue A to Track Campaign Effectiveness
