AIAB Takes California

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This summer, members of the AIAB staff and co-director Pete Fader abandoned our Philadelphia offices and invaded California. The mission: to host five events in three days. Our expedition started with a Research Symposium at the Wharton San Francisco campus and ended in Los Angeles at the American Apparel factory.Read More

All Is Not Lost: Finding Value In Marketing Attribution Data

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Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata (also one of our great speakers from AIAB’s Successful Applications of Customer Analytics conference), wrote a follow-up note to the self-termed downer” article he posted last month on how random attribution methods could produce the same aggregate results as more sophisticated ones that sought to tease out credit for the many individual touch points on the path to purchase.Read More