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Re:What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital... by mobjack on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:13PM (#21470338)
FB can track ads using clicks and view through. With a control group, you can only use view through. I am just skeptical of how it is a fair test especially when FB has an interest to prove that ads work.

YouTube brand lift is an indirect measure that is hard to translate to actual sales to see if the ads were cost effective.

The math is fuzzy when measuring marketing ads and it is real hard to be truly scientific.

Re:What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital... by jefftk on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:14AM (#21472843)
The proper test is to use viewthrough for both the experiment and control