Data-Driven Marketing

Mets Fans Are Metal Heads, Yanks Fans Dig Rap

Mets Fans Are Metal Heads, Yanks Fans Dig Rap

Ad-intelligence outfit Exponential Interactive tracked 1.3 million baseball fans gearing up for the season last month online.

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Quants Can Be Funny, Too: Marin's Sam Wilcke Talks Comedy and Data

Quants Can Be Funny, Too: Marin's Sam Wilcke Talks Comedy and Data

Sam Wilcke, director of analytics at Marin Software and a former stand-up comic, sees plenty of connections between crafting jokes and analyzing data.

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At Starbucks, Data Pours In. But What to Do With It?

At Starbucks, Data Pours In. But What to Do With It?

Joe LaCugna, director of analytics at Starbucks, talks about how the coffee chain uses, and doesn't use, data.

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For Grocers, After Years of Shunning Internet, Digital Starts to Click

For Grocers, After Years of Shunning Internet, Digital Starts to Click

U.S. grocers' embrace of digital will create a deluge of usable data.

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Don't Make the Mistake of Viewing Valuable Data Streams in Isolation

Don't Make the Mistake of Viewing Valuable Data Streams in Isolation

Integrating digital data into marketing-mix models provides the complete picture of the marketing landscape and the relative performance of marketing vehicles and tactics.

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How Burberry, Sharp and Vodafone Are Getting Creative with Data

How Burberry, Sharp and Vodafone Are Getting Creative with Data

A look at four areas of data that marketers have tapped to showcase brand stories in novel ways without playing it needlessly "safe."

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Ad Holding Companies Look to Spread Data Wealth Beyond Media Agencies

Ad Holding Companies Look to Spread Data Wealth Beyond Media Agencies

Omnicom, Publicis, WPP seek to scale insights groups to serve their overall agency portfolios.

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How P&G Inspired Cleveland Indians to Offer Fewer Bobbleheads

How P&G Inspired Cleveland Indians to Offer Fewer Bobbleheads

The Cleveland Indians' marketing-mix modeling revealed that the team needed more giveaway nights but fewer giveaways, so it's off with some bobbleheads.

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Meet the Data Wonks Who Work in Beer, Booze and Food

Meet the Data Wonks Who Work in Beer, Booze and Food

Skinny Girl, Kraft and Sierra Nevada are using data analysis to learn more about their key consumers.

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WPP's Xaxis Wants to Make Online Video Ad Buying More Like TV

WPP's Xaxis Wants to Make Online Video Ad Buying More Like TV

Xaxis believes TV programming schedules are key to getting cross-platform video ad targeting right.

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Marketing Quant 101: Universities Gear Up for Data Talent Crunch

Marketing Quant 101: Universities Gear Up for Data Talent Crunch

The next-generation advertising exec will be a data geek with the soul of an artist, the business acumen of Warren Buffet and the storytelling skills of Don Draper.

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Package-Goods Marketers Build Private Trading Desks to Hoard Data

Package-Goods Marketers Build Private Trading Desks to Hoard Data

Big CPG brands are seizing control of their customer data by building their own trading desks.

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Meet the Gatekeepers to Twitter and Facebook Data

Meet the Gatekeepers to Twitter and Facebook Data

Facebook and Twitter take varying approaches to making data accessible to advertisers, agencies and developers.

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Data War Dispatch: Turning Data Crude Into Real Revenue

Data War Dispatch: Turning Data Crude Into Real Revenue

As brands, publishers, platforms, agencies and tech firms race to refine their data crude into valuable assets, boundaries are being drawn in the data-control war.

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Facebook Hashtags: a Play for Real-Time Ad Dollars

Facebook Hashtags: a Play for Real-Time Ad Dollars

Facebook is reportedly planning to adopt one of Twitter's seminal features, the hashtag, a move that could put the two companies more directly in competition for ad dollars.

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Acxiom Criticizes 'Faulty' Digital Data Providers on Their Own Turf

Acxiom Criticizes 'Faulty' Digital Data Providers on Their Own Turf

The traditional data firm is going after publisher partners and criticizing "faulty" digital data and look-a-like models.

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Bazaarvoice Revs Its Consumer Data Machine, Launches Ad Targeting

Online review platform Bazaarvoice calls itself a social-commerce firm, but under the hood it's a consumer-data collection machine.

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Marketing Data: Number Crunchers Need Communication Skills, Too

Marketing Data: Number Crunchers Need Communication Skills, Too

For Varick's Keith Gooberman, the ability to translate his work with data to something marketing execs could understand was key to professional advancement.

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Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles

Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles

Facebook is testing out a new kind of ad targeting that matches offline purchases to Facebook profiles.

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Purposeful Data Jargon Transcends Borders, Says AbsolutData's Chris Diener

Purposeful Data Jargon Transcends Borders, Says AbsolutData's Chris Diener

Mr. Diener, SVP analytics at marketing data consultancy AbsolutData, on working with international clients and the pros and cons of the increase in digital-data collection.

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