Marketers becoming ‘paranoid’ over reliability of marketing metrics

Almost three-quarters of senior marketers believe media measurement currencies are becoming “increasingly corrupted” and that players such as Google and Facebook have too much control.

A whopping 70% of senior marketers believe media measurement currencies are becoming “increasingly corrupted”, according to the second Media2020 report by Media Sense, ISBA and IPSOS Connect.

Having surveyed more than 250 senior British marketers, the report shows nearly a quarter (23%) are “losing sleep” over recent high-profile measurement errors.

According to Andy Pearch, co-founder of MediaSense and the author of the report, marketers are becoming increasingly paranoid about the reliability of audience measurement data on digital and s

ocial channels.

“There’s paranoia because the media agencies and the big digital players have way too much control,” he tells Marketing Week. “It’s going to take a long time to move to an independent source of data verification.

“What this does show, however,..

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