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Techniques to evaluate marketing uplift experiments

August 7, 2025By Simon FosterAdvertising Evaluation, Marketing Effectiveness, Media Evaluation

Experiments are an important way to validate marketing effectiveness measurement. This post will take you through some approaches to evaluating marketing uplift experiments. Let’s assume you run a test TV / VOD campaign over 4 weeks in March 2025. How can you measure the sales revenue uplift it created? In this post, we’ll look at … Read More

I am an independent marketing and media effectiveness consultant, with an emphasis on delivering marketing science-based solutions to advertisers. My independent status allows me to show you “how it is” rather than “how it ought to be”.

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