OptiBrain Optimizes TV ROI Nationally and Locally

The US is different from all other Western nations in that it has significant local media in over 200 markets Here when we buy just national TV and then compare the delivery market to market we see wide variations in the media weight we have bought we may have 30 above campaign national average TRP in one market and 30 below average TRP in another marketA long time ago sophisticated marketers recognized this fact and supplemented their national TV buys with spot local TV buys They called this amp8220Replacement Weightamp8221 when the amount of TRPs they added was calculated to be just enough to bring certain markets up to the national averageThe most sophisticated of them used CDI and BDI to decide whether a market deserved to get not just Replacement Weight but whether it deserved to get even more CDI is Category Development Index the per capita index of the product categoryamp8217s sales in that market relative to the national norm BDI is Brand Development Index the per capita index of the brandamp8217s sales in that market The best practices of the Mad Men Era were to favor spending more in markets if they had high CDI or high BDI or bothTwenty years later I discovered that high BDI could be a signal to not spend more in that marketAn advertiser had asked me to see if I could improve on their media plans I requested data on marketbymarket sales for multiple years and included that in my analysis with all the rest of the data they had sent me I was baffled by what I saw These were all famous brands that had been around a long time In some markets sales were going up and in some markets sales were going down There was no correlation of sales trend with ad spend trend by markets In one market ad spend was going up combining national spend allocated based on impressions with actual local ad spend and sales were going down in another market the opposite was happening Did this mean that advertising was having no effectA hunch led me to inspect whether there was any insight added by bringing CDI and BDI into the analysis This added work and confusion and initially no release from my bafflement Then some hunch out of thin air caused me to rearrange the data and suddenly the picture became crystal clearThe second hunch was about Scurves I had read that the shape of the doseresponse curve in much epidemiology is an Scurve and that in his classic book Rogers had shown that human artifact innovations like TV or internet etc also deployed in an Scurve over time I wondered if maybe brands also rolled out in an Scurve and if so maybe the S had different timing in different markets for happenstance stronger sales force etc or demopsychographic reasonsamp160 amp160That was what the data confirmed Certain markets where the BDI was low were growing faster where more advertising stimulus was being applied and certain markets where the BDI was high were neither growing or shrinking even though more ad dollars were being added to themMore years have passed amp8220Myamp8221 latest technology company RMT now has a predictive model called HYOPS meaning Hyperlocal Opportunities which can predict ROI by market based on more variables than discussed above Through our DriverTagTM work with Semasio we now have profiled the motivations of 276 million Americans and can sum this at the zip cable zone or ADIDMA levelAlthough line extensions are a very good way of keeping a mature brand going exploitation of hyperlocal opportunities and optimization of media allocation geographically as well as every other way is another way to squeeze growth out of toppedout large brandsPart 2 OptiBrain The First ROI OptimizerIn his classic book Media Planning Erwin Ephron credits Paul Gerhold a former President of the Advertising Research Foundation ARF and one of the driving forces behind the original ARF model for being the first one to say that media optimization should start from sales effect and endorses Paulamp8217s ideaAlmost all media optimizers have focused on reach not on sales effect My colleagues and I wrote an ARF paper on this subject in 2016 and recently in this column I reviewed the VideoAmp ROI Optimizer saying that I will be reviewing more from these new third generation the first was in the 1960s and the second in the 1990s of media optimizers in future columnsIn this column weamp8217ll review an Optimizer I recently helped build Itamp8217s an ROI optimizer not just a reach optimizer because it enables the automatic inclusion of ROI data by media subtypes from any source you choose and it also maximizes RMT Context Resonance as a predictor of sales lift based on the work of Howard Shimmel then at Turner using Nielsen NCS to do the thirdparty efficacy measurementOptiBrain is designed to be used especially by brands that are using both national and local television all other media can also be included Unlike previous optimizers OptiBrain optimizes the national buy first then knowing the reach and frequency distribution of that national campaign as it falls upon targets in each local market it optimizes the local buys to maximally add reach and sales effect incremental to the national campaign with minimal duplicationOptiBrain can work with any data source you choose Nielsen Comscore Marketing Evolution VideoAmp 605 etc It can also work with a panel source plus a big data source and in that sense OptiBrain came along just in time to provide an implementation of the WFAANAISBA blueprint for crossplatform audience measurementFor smaller agencies OptiBrain enables them to buy report level data rather than respondent level data saving that money and the machine learning module within OptiBrain will cause the agencyamp8217s instance of OptiBrain to learn to duplicate the reachfrequency patterns of the source most trusted for reachfrequency estimatesFor sellers of media who sell at both national and local levels OptiBrain provides an effective and efficient way to construct the highest ROI mixes on a casebycase basisOptiBrain can be integrated into anyoneamp8217s existing tech stack so as to function as a seamless subset of a larger modelAs we continue our review of the new ROI optimizers you will probably see how it would serve you well to pick the best of the best and combine them with what you already have built The future belongs to the fastest adapters to changing conditions and the most effective and efficient use of proven new technologiesClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writersamp160amp160

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