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Ideas & analysisMMM Is Back. Here's the Survey Layer It's Missing.
Marketing mix modeling returned because tracking-based attribution lost its reliability. But MMM tells you what moved, not why. A fast survey layer fills the gap.
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Segment x Message x Creative: The Combinatorial Trap of A/B Testing
Use segment, message, and creative research to narrow a live experiment. Includes reproducible combination arithmetic, illustrative segment results, and limits on survey-to-conversion claims.
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What Happened to Confirmit and Decipher? The Forsta and Qualtrics Timeline
Confirmit, FocusVision, and Decipher became Forsta, then part of Press Ganey, and are now part of Qualtrics. Follow the ownership timeline and the questions to ask if you run studies on these platforms.
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The Location-Data Cliff: When Your Targeting Signal Degrades
Regulators have spent two years forcing the location-data market into retreat. If your targeting or measurement assumes that signal will hold, it is time to add a more durable read.
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What a Standard Study Actually Costs, and Where 80% of It Hides
An illustrative production-only comparison of $20,000 and $4,150, with reproducible task totals, sample exclusions, and a separate explanation of current quote-based platform pricing.
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Research Program Costs in CPM: An Illustrative Campaign Budget
Calculate research allocation CPM with a hypothetical campaign budget, distinguish quoted study fees from program spend, and evaluate return separately.
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Why Your Attribution Model Over-Credits What It Can Still See
Multi-touch attribution doesn't just have gaps. It has a direction. It systematically over-credits the channels it can still see, and that bias is steering your budget.
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The Squeeze: More Studies, Faster, for Less, and the Way Out
Agencies are caught between clients who want more for less and a cost base that won't bend. The trap is real, and it isn't your team. It's the legacy way of working.
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Know Your Non-Converters: The Audience Your Pixel Never Sees
Analytics records actions and conversions, but asking non-buyers can reveal objections, alternatives, and reasons that their observed behavior does not explain.
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Replacing a Quarterly Brand Tracker: Costs, Cadence, and Tradeoffs
Compare illustrative quarterly and continuous tracker budgets, correct respondent totals, and assess cadence, uncertainty, and the actual $200,000 versus $93,600 worked scenario.