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Vision: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Today's customers interact with brands via a wide variety of touchpoints and at different stages of the brand life cycle. But companies measure campaign success using last-touch methods that fail to...
Marketers and CI professionals frequently tell us that they want a better measurement technique to accurately determine the true performance of channels and customers. I am pleased to announce that...
I am a measurement geek. I get great joy from analyzing data, measuring customer behavior, and assessing marketing campaigns. It’s something that I’ve done for years, across different...

Benchmarking: Measure Marketing Performance
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Forrester's Forum For Marketing Leaders in London and met some members of the Forrester Leadership Board (FLB) for Customer Insights (CI)...
Organization: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
This report, part of the cross-channel attribution playbook, is designed to help firms plan and coordinate activities across roles and functions and to clarify task responsibilities in successfully...
Visual IQ Surfaces At The Top Of A Relatively Immature Market
In Forrester's 67-criteria evaluation of cross-channel attribution vendors, we found that Visual IQ led the pack because of its expertise in cross-channel attribution methodology, reporting, and...

As a new analyst at Forrester, I’m taking over coverage of cross-channel attribution, metrics, and measurement for customer intelligence professionals. It is a wide-spanning topic to...
The analytics community is experiencing a rebirth. A renewal. A renaissance. Why? Data is bursting from every corner, from every device, allowing brands to deliver relevant messages and offers to its...
Cross-channel attribution. For customer insights and marketing practitioners, attribution is a white hot measurement topic. It’s viewed as the best way to measure effectiveness of marketing and...
Google recently announced, on Tuesday, plans to offer its Attribution Modeling Tool through Google Analytics via a public white list. The Attribution Modeling Tool was previously offered through the...
Assessment: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Cross-channel attribution is a complex, advanced measurement approach, allowing marketers to uncover the true impact of their marketing campaigns across channels. To get it right, organizations must...
Strategic Plan: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
A key piece in cross-channel attribution is developing a strategy that outlines where the organization needs to progress to achieve attribution nirvana. To be successful at cross-channel attribution,...

Customer intelligence (CI) professionals are eager to develop a fully integrated cross-channel attribution strategy as a critical first step to optimizing marketing budgets and plans. However, the...
Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals increasingly look to attribution experts for guidance and tools to help calculate true channel and customer purchase path. While there is a broad array of...
Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

Benchmarking: Measure Marketing Performance
During the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel attribution providers, we surveyed 34 customers about their cross-channel attribution efforts and their vendor partnerships....
Today's approach to marketing campaigns is broken, and customer relationships are suffering as a result. Although Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals have traditionally been detached from the...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Processes: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Establishing a cross-channel attribution measurement framework requires a tremendous amount of due diligence, planning, and process across the organization. In this report of the cross-channel...

Marketing professionals are more and more accountable for proving value, and making investment recommendations and decisions, based on business and marketing performance. Marketing mix modeling is...