Best Practices for Conducting Online Ad Effectiveness Research

June 5, 2011

Online advertising effectiveness research is a critical component of the marketing ecosystem, used to validate the efficacy of campaigns and as a tool for both creative and placement optimization. According to The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PwC, Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. in 2010 were $26 billion. The growth in online advertising spend requires sound measurement and reliable methodologies to prove effectiveness. However, the industry faces considerable methodological challenges, many of which were examined in the IAB's An Evaluation of Methods Used to Assess the Effectiveness of Advertising on the Internet last year. The paper, which looked exclusively at site intercept studies, sounded the warning bell that the validity of interactive advertising effectiveness (IAE) research is «threatened...by the extremely low response rates achieved in most IAE studies.

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