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Despite the best efforts of research firms to pump out data that seem to forecast how marketers are doing, complexity is growing faster than the ability of research firms to cut through it.
Why Tracking Marketing Is Now So Tough - Advertising Age - CMO Strategy
My mantra is and will continue to be - embrace complexity. Look, the fundamentals of great communication won't change - a simple story well told remains the gold standard for advertising. However, the means by which every brand story is told -- is expressed -- is now and henceforth shall be COMPLEX. Get used to it.
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A discrepancy between Google click data and comScore's estimates of those data before they were released caused the Web-measurement firm's share price to plunge last week. But on Madison Avenue, the difference wasn't much of a shock. Rather, it was another reminder that the science of tracking Internet usage is still far from perfect.
Digital-advertising executives say they have long taken comScore numbers with a grain of salt and don't plan on curtailing their use of the Reston, Va., research firm because of the Google flap. "We have not expected the numbers to be 100% accurate," says Sarah Fay, chief executive of both Carat and Isobar US, ad companies owned by Aegis Group. "I think that comScore has been as good as anything we've had previously."
Agencies Know the Score on Web Tracking - WSJ.com
