Accounting for causality when measuring sales lift from television advertising: Television campaigns are shown to be more effective for lighter brand users
Henry Assael, Masakazu Ishihara, and Baek Jung Kim
Establishing causality has long been an issue in the advertising-to-sales relationship. The ideal approach in establishing causality is randomized assignment of matched respondents to an exposure and non-exposure group.
Assael, Ishihara and KimMANAGEMENT SLANT
- Refined methods of statistical matching are an effective substitute for experimentation in accounting for causality in the television advertising-to-sales relationship.
- Such matching must account for both demographic...