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Attributing Conversions in a Multichannel Online Marketing Environment: An Empirical Model and a Field Experiment
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Technology enables a firm to produce a granular record of every touchpoint consumers make in their online purchase journey before they convert at the firm's website. However, firms still depend on aggregate measures to guide their marketing investments in multiple online channels (e.g., display, paid search, referral, e-mail). This article introduces a methodology to attribute the incremental value of each marketing channel in an online environment using individual-level data of customers’ touches. The authors propose a measurement model to analyze customers’ (1) consideration of online channels, (2) visits through these channels over time, and (3) subsequent purchases at the website to estimate the carryover and spillover effects of prior touches at both the visit and purchase stages. The authors use the estimated carryover and spillover effects to attribute the conversion credit to different channels and find that these channels’ relative contributions are significantly different from those found by other currently used metrics. A field study validates the proposed model's ability to estimate the incremental impact of a channel on conversions. In targeting customers with different patterns of touches in their purchase funnel, these estimates help identify cases in which retargeting strategies may actually decrease conversion probabilities.
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- Authors
- Li, H. (., & Kannan, P. K.
- Venue
- Journal of Marketing Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 40-56
- ISSN
- 0022-2437 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-7193
- OpenAlex
- W2064636232
- Cited by
- 437
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 53.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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