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by dmitrygr 637 days ago
> At some level, ad attribution is necessary.

My man, let me introduce you to .. well ... all years before 2000-ish. TV ads has no tracking pixels, and radio ads had no utm strings...

Somehow advertisers ... lived?

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Marketing is going back to utilize the same measurement technologies that were prevalent before digital tracking was ubiquitous, via Media/Market Mix Modeling (MMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix_modeling However, now we can process, hold, and model way more data, driving toward way more useful outputs; but, without any of the privacy implications that exist at a user-level.

So, we now use MMM + user-level attribution (Multi-touch Attribution or MTA) as a hybridized modeling effort to provide what is known in the industry as 'Unified Measurement Modeling' in order to provide the most robust look at how marketing is working.

Automatic "what channel is TV tuned" telemetry has been around since 1970s AFAICT from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research#Measuri...
And it had to be installed separately if you wanted to participate.