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Microsoft Advertising Institute publishes Digital Marketing Insights (DMIs), a series of publications by digital marketing experts that help our customers improve their digital marketing effectiveness. Many of these findings are also made available to the digital marketing industry at large. Each DMI is designed to help marketers more successfully build value with their customers, throughout the customer lifecycle--from awareness to acquisition and from retention to growth.
Are the 10 million impressions on one site more effective in reaching your target audience than the 7 million impressions on another site? This report from Microsoft Advertising Institute examines why the internet’s mass appeal isn’t being used for brand advertising, and how traditional media planning can be brought online to solve the planner’s dilemma. Read More >
Research shows that conversion reporting based on the "last ad" standard fails to credit the multiple digital touchpoints in a consumer’s online history. This report digs deeper into the idea of multiple touchpoints that occur before a conversion, looking specifically into touchpoints by “time.”
The emergence of new media channels stresses the need for more sophisticated standards to measure engagement and ROI. This study compares conversion reporting based on the “last ad” standard to the Engagement Mapping model, revealing the surprising effect that multiple touchpoints have on conversions.
Microsoft Advertising Institute examines the bias created by the “last ad” model and reveals sites that delivered reach and engagement to conversions but did not receive applicable credit in the purchasing funnel—and have the most to gain from new conversion attribution paradigms like Engagement Mapping.
The Impact of Overlap
Reaching consumers across multiple sites boosts your ROI. This report illustrates the amount of overlap that is occurring in the marketplace and begins to reveal the impact of that duplication on conversions. Webcast Podcast
Paying for Navigational Search
This analysis from Microsoft Advertising Institute provides statistics on the prevalence of navigational search as well as insight into navigational behaviors. Webcast Podcast
Search Conversion Rates by Daypart
Paid search is one of today's most competitive and tightly managed digital marketplaces, yet one of the simplest and most powerful strategies is often overlooked or underutilized. This report considers sponsored search conversion rates by daypart, including industry-specific benchmarks.
Online Media Conversion Rates by Daypart
One of the most interesting and actionable factors impacting the effectiveness of advertising in generating sales is time of day. This report examines the influence of time of day on conversion rates for display media.
On Demand Digital Video Duration
The digitization of traditional media and the new metrics that are available as television becomes accountable is a hot topic in the world of marketing. Earlier research on rich media exposure tracking is expanded in this report, which takes a closer look at duration in digital video.
Cross Promotion Is Critical to VOD Success
This study quantifies the importance of cross-promotional spots to increase video-on-demand (VOD) viewership, and shows how time of day impacts performance.
Rank Report: How Search Engine Rank Impacts Traffic
Multiple factors drive the overall ROI of a search engine marketing investment. The research presented here examines how one key factor—search engine rank—impacts traffic to a marketer’s web site.
Behavior-Based Media Planning
Marketers have long depended on demographic and psychographic profiles when planning advertising campaigns. This study compares traditional planning methods with behavior-based planning, which bases site recommendations on where customers are on the internet.
The Evolution of Online Advertising Metrics Microsoft Advertising Institute examines the correlation between Cost per Revenue and Cost per Sale, with the goal of understanding how CPR might change media optimization decisions.
Online Reach Across Multiple Sites
Microsoft Advertising Institute dispels the myth that advertisers commonly reach the same consumer more than once on multiple sites in a given campaign.
Finding the Missing Piece in Online Frequency
Microsoft Advertising Institute demonstrates the importance of frequency distribution in online marketing by examining data from a typical online campaign.
Engagement Mapping
Evaluate every touchpoint, not just the last. Typically, between 93 and 95 percent of audience engagements with online advertising receive no credit at all when advertisers review campaign ROI. That presents a substantial margin for missed opportunity.
Unlike the outdated "last ad" model that narrowly attributes 100 percent success to the most recent ad clicked, Engagement Mapping technology reveals the entire conversion funnel, enabling you to make more effective, more relevant decisions in your digital marketing.
