Experian Marketing Services soon will begin rolling out a tool that connects the digital advertisements that consumers see to their purchases by integrating several types of offline and online data, along with a host of triggers and metrics.
The tool focuses on paid attribution channels, and is the latest in a series of services focused on helping marketers track where to spend their marketing budgets. It adds to features like dynamic data analysis and deeper segmentation. Jeff Hassemer, VP of product strategy at Experian Marketing Services, said to expect what he calls “process intelligence” next.
Response attribution, the latest tool, allows brands to set up an index that determines the value of one media channel over another to give clients more control on allocating budget across display, email, mobile, search, video and other media supported by real-time bidding. Metrics often include the lifetime value of a customer. All responses have a shelf life. Marketers may give a higher score to searches that occur within three hours or emails opened within three days, depending on the client data. The attribution metrics per media channel help to set the budget.
Experian’s system generates much of the data, but it also comes from promotional history, Web transactions, and customer data. The data feeds from multiple data sources like purchase transactions from ecommerce systems and point-of-sale systems in retail stores are combined and sorted. The latest features also connect data from offline transactions with prior online transactions.
About 60% of Experian Marketing Services clients come from the retail industry, with the remainder mostly in financial services, publishing, and hospitality.
Source: Mediapost.com
