Episode 1

Pilot: Defining the Dollar Value of Impressions

July 3rd, 2019

16 mins 57 secs

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About this Episode

    <p>On this pilot episode, Chris tackles the challenge of defining the dollar value of impressions.  This is the most popular blog post on PortMA's <a href="http://www.portma.com/" target="_blank">Experiential ROI</a> blog and garners the most activity when they post on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/portma" target="_blank">@portma</a>.  </p><p>Chris breaks the problem down into three business challenges:</p><ul>


  • How to collect experiential marketing impressions reliably: Turns out, that consistency is more important than accuracy.  Chris breaks down this critical data science principle and provides simple solutions to avoid this common mistake.


  • Methods for recording the five primary impression categories: In experiential marketing there are five impression categories that every campaign should be tracking.  Don’t sell yourself short by missing one of these key areas of value.


  • Assigning a legitimate dollar value to experiential marketing impressions: Finally, Chris reveals the industry standard for impression valuation modeling and provides several examples that allow the non-data minded marketer a clear roadmap to assigning the right dollar value to experiential impressions.

  • Links of Interest

    Portland Marketing Analytics (PortMA) is a marketing research firm specializing in the develop of marketing communication strategies and measuring the return-on-investment of experiential marketing campaigns.

    You can follow Chris on Twitter @portma.

    For a more compressive review of Ad Value Equivalency Modeling techniques including criticisms of the approach visit PR Week’s article, The AVE debate: Measuring the value of PR.