Attribution

Is WPP the canary in the coal mine for the global ad business?

On Wednesday, the world’s largest ad agency holding company, WPP, spooked investors by warning about a slowdown that it projects will result in dismal sales growth of 1% or less.

Shares of the firm plummeted the most in a single day since 2000 and are now down by more than 20% this year.

You’re (still) not tracking CPA properly and here’s why

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” John Wanamaker (1838-1922). Are we any closer to answering that fully in 2017?

Calculating CPA (cost per acquisition, also referred to as CPL – cost per lead) is a challenge. But tracking the cost of your first acquisition point (which may be a lead or a customer) is essential in understanding marketing channel efficiency and equally marketing-mix efficiency.