Why Marketing Needs a Common Language for Measurement

Why Marketing Needs a Common Language for Measurement

by | Jul 15, 2025 | Marketing, Measurement

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Why Marketing Needs a Common Language for Measurement

peq rikki marlerBy Rikki Marler

No More Apples to Oranges

Let’s be real: Marketing measurement today is a mess. Everyone’s speaking a different language — and wondering why no one understands each other.

One platform says your campaign drove a 3.5x ROAS.
Another says it’s incremental.
A third just shrugs and gives you a PDF three weeks late.

Welcome to the Apples-to-Oranges Era of media measurement.

So… What’s the Problem?

You can’t optimize what you can’t compare.

Marketers are being asked to make million-dollar decisions across channels that don’t speak the same language — not in metrics, not in methodologies, not in timing, not even in logic.

One brand manager is looking at iROAS.
Another’s debating attribution windows.
The CFO wants “just one number.”
And the agency? They’re knee-deep in four dashboards and a spreadsheet that looks like it was built in 1997. It’s chaotic. It’s confusing. And it’s killing performance.

The Myth of “More Data=Better Decisions”

Here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud: More data doesn’t mean better decisions.
More comparable data does.

If one retailer defines incrementality based on store lift… And another does it using branded search uplift. Then what are you actually comparing?

Hint: nothing useful.

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This Isn’t Just an Ops Problem — It’s a Growth Problem

Inconsistent measurement doesn’t just make reporting a nightmare —
It blocks scale, wastes spend, and breaks trust across teams.

  • Media teams don’t know what to optimize.

  • Finance doesn’t trust the ROAS.

  • Leadership sees “growth” — but has no idea what’s actually driving it.

It’s not that marketers are flying blind. It’s that they’re flying with 10 compasses… all pointing in different directions.

What Marketing Really Needs: A Single Source of Measurement Truth

That’s what Pēq delivers.

We standardize how incrementality is measured — across platforms, campaigns, and retailers — so you can finally compare performance without decoding five different playbooks.

👉 Same test/control logic
👉 Same incrementality framework
👉 Same definitions for lift, iROAS, CPI — everywhere

No more apples to oranges. Just apples to apples. (And insights you can actually act on.)

Why It Works

When you use one measurement language:

  • Your media mix gets smarter — because you’re not second-guessing what worked.

  • Your reporting gets faster — no more waiting weeks for a post-campaign PDF.

  • Your team gets aligned — from marketing to finance to leadership, everyone sees the same truth.

And that truth? It drives better decisions. Period.

Final Thought

The next time someone says “we saw 400% ROAS on Platform X,” ask them:
Compared to what? Measured how? Normalized against what baseline? If they don’t have answers… it’s apples to oranges all over again.

It’s time to stop guessing.
It’s time to speak the same language.
It’s time to measure what actually matters.

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How Machine Learning Is Making Marketing More Measurable

How Machine Learning Is Making Marketing More Measurable

by | Jun 26, 2025 | Marketing, Machine Learning

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How Machine Learning Is Making Marketing More Measurable

peq rikki marlerBy Rikki Marler

The Problem with Traditional Marketing Measurement.

For decades, marketers have relied on fragmented metrics like last-click attribution or self-reported dashboards. They measured impressions, clicks, or linear spend—and built strategies on sand. But today’s multichannel, cookieless, fragmented landscape demands something far more robust.

That’s where machine learning comes in.

Why Machine Learning Is a Measurement Game-Changer.

1. Widespread Adoption & Competitive Edge

94% of organizations now use AI to prepare or execute marketing campaigns, and 88% of marketers rely on AI in their daily roles.

Among enterprises, 57% are actively deploying AI-based solutions. This isn’t just futuristic—it’s table stakes.

2. Real-Time Campaign Performance

ML-powered attribution shifts your view from “what happened” to “what caused it.” Beyond backward-looking MMM, AI-driven measurement offers continuous, same-day insights, enabling budget shifts mid-flight.

3. Predictive ROI and Media Mix Modeling

In retail, ML-enhanced MMM can forecast outcomes of spend changes and suggest optimal allocative shifts.

It identifies non-linear channel interactions, diminishing returns, and cross-channel lift—things simple models can’t see.

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4. Causal Lift and Incrementality at Scale

Causal machine learning (e.g., uplift models) is enabling actionable insights like: “Which coupon codes drive real incremental sales across segments?” Modern systems can isolate true lift even without real-world holdouts—essential in today’s privacy-first era.

Real-World Data That Validates the Shift.

Retailers using AI saw annual profit growth of ~8% compared to peers who didn’t. Nearly half of all businesses (48%) actively use ML/AI tools to maintain data accuracy.

61% of marketers now rate AI as the most critical component of their data strategy. These aren’t wild forecasts—they’re proof that machine learning works in marketing measurement.

What This Looks Like in Practice.

1. Unified Incrementality Measurement

Instead of trusting siloed platform ROAS, machine learning evaluates how each channel contributes lift, normalizing spend, seasonality, and cross-retailer dynamics.

2. Predictive Channel Allocation

You can simulate budget shifts: “What if we move €100K from Facebook to CTV this quarter?” ML predicts ROI based on historical patterns.

3. Continuous Trend Tracking

Forget monthly reviews—ML alerts marketing teams in real time when a campaign loses traction or a new “best channel” emerges.

4. Personalization & Behavioral Targeting

ML-based engines dynamically adapt messaging to user behaviors or segments, boosting relevance and conversion.

The Academic Layer: What the Research Shows.

Causal ML identifies which coupons truly increase demand—and for which audiences. Neural network models for conversion prediction accurately forecast who will purchase—before they even click.

These aren’t just sample cases—they show how deep learning is reshaping marketing attribution and conversion strategy.

The Bottom Line.

Machine learning transforms marketing measurement from reactive to predictive, from isolated channels to unified truth, and from guesswork to real ROI insight. No more siloed platforms, conflicting reports, or chasing incomplete data.

But ML only works when it’s layered on quality inputs and robust standardized measurement frameworks—which is why Pēq combines ML with rigorous data hygiene and unified incrementality logic.

In short: machine learning doesn’t just make marketing more measurable—it makes it measurable with integrity.

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Different Channels, One Truth

Different Channels, One Truth

by | Jun 24, 2025 | Marketing, Geolocation

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Different Channels, One Truth

The Case for Unified Marketing Metrics

peq brian pozeskyBy Brian Pozesky

Let’s be honest.
Marketing measurement today feels like trying to solve a puzzle with pieces from different boxes. Google tells you one thing, your retail media partner tells you another, your internal BI team gives you a third—and your CFO still thinks marketing is a cost center.

Here’s the real problem:
Every channel has its own way of measuring success, its own KPIs, and its own version of the truth. That’s not just inefficient—it’s dangerous. When every platform grades its own homework, you’re not making decisions based on data. You’re guessing. Expensively.

Welcome to the Era of Measurement Chaos:
Marketing today isn’t just multichannel—it’s fragmented. You’re probably juggling:

  • Retail media dashboards showing inflated ROAS

  • Paid social claiming last-click conversions

  • Programmatic vendors reporting on impressions and VCR

  • Internal attribution models that everyone mistrusts

And they’re all… kind of right. But not usefully right. Because if you can’t compare results across channels with confidence, you can’t optimize spend, prove performance, or scale what works.

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The Case for One Truth

At Pēq, we believe the answer isn’t more metrics. It’s better measurement.
That starts with standardization—a single framework to evaluate all media the same way, regardless of channel, platform, or format.

We call it: Different Channels. One Truth.

What Unified Marketing Metrics Look Like

Unifying your metrics doesn’t mean flattening your data. It means standardizing how you measure success, so you can compare apples to apples—even if one’s organic TikTok and the other’s a CTV ad on Roku.

At Pēq, this means:

✅ Incrementality as a common denominator
✅ Standard lift testing across channels (No holdouts or control groups required)
✅ Consistent iROAS and spend normalization
✅ Cross-retailer comparability
✅ One measurement source, not six competing dashboards

Why This Matters Now

  • Retail media is exploding—but every retailer has its own black box

  • Cookies are dying—forcing marketers to rethink attribution

  • Budgets are shrinking—so every dollar has to prove its worth

If you’re still measuring in silos, you’re not seeing the full picture. And you’re probably wasting money.

The Pēq Promise

We’re not just tracking clicks. We’re building a unified source of measurement truth—so marketers can finally say, with confidence: this campaign worked, this one didn’t, and here’s exactly why.

So whether you’re running ads on Amazon, Meta, Walmart Connect, or streaming TV—we help you compare impact with a single lens.

Ready to Ditch the Dashboard Chaos?

Start with a Free Incrementality Analysis and discover where your marketing is really making an impact—and where it’s just making noise.

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When Loyalty Isn’t Enough

When Loyalty Isn’t Enough

by | Jun 19, 2025 | Marketing, Geolocation

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When Loyalty Isn’t Enough

The Case for Geo + Context

peq brian pozeskyBy Brian Pozesky

“We don’t need portfolio optimization or measurement standardization — or whatever you call it. 80% of our sales are tracked with loyalty data.”

“Get with the times, man.”

It’s a valid argument — loyalty programs have become critical infrastructure for retail media. They enable identity resolution at scale, power high-frequency personalization across digital and direct channels, and provide granular attribution tied to verified transactions. For creative performance and short-cycle ROI analysis, they are indispensable.

However, loyalty data is not without limitations. Its strength lies in precision, not coverage. Consumer graphs built from loyalty programs vary significantly across retailers and cannot be uniformly extended across the increasingly fragmented media ecosystem. They lack the interoperability and cross-channel consistency required to evaluate diverse media tactics — from linear TV to emerging programmatic platforms — in a comparable, apples-to-apples fashion. Even the largest holding companies continue to wrestle with stitching together these siloed datasets into coherent, actionable insights.

That’s where geo-based measurement offers complementary value.

Store trade area methodologies provide a standardized, spatial framework for assessing causal media impact at scale.

By anchoring measurement to physical retail outcomes — which still account for over 80% of CPG sales — geo-lift enables portfolio-level evaluation that is agnostic to ID resolution, cookie fidelity, or channel-specific tagging.

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In essence, it restores a common unit of analysis: the store

Of course, the utility of geo-lift depends entirely on the fidelity of the underlying trade areas. Naïve radius-based models fail to reflect actual consumer behavior. The most advanced approaches incorporate anonymized GPS signal data, visit frequency, dwell time, and competitive context to delineate trade areas that reflect real-world shopping patterns — not just theoretical reach.

Used in tandem, loyalty and geo provide a uniquely holistic view: loyalty delivers precision and shopper-level insight; geo provides standardization and comparability across the media mix. Together, they enable a more complete understanding of what’s working, where, and why — and allow marketers to balance personalization with portfolio optimization across an increasingly complex retail media landscape.

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The Cookiepocalypse Is Here

The Cookiepocalypse Is Here

by | Jun 9, 2025 | Marketing, Cookies, Incrementality

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The Cookiepocalypse Is Here

Are Your Measurement Tools Ready?

peq rikki marlerBy Rikki Marler

In case you missed it (or were hoping it would just go away): the cookiepocalypse is no longer coming—it’s already here.

With Google phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome, and Apple’s privacy-first stance now the industry norm, marketers are being forced to face a hard truth: the measurement infrastructure many brands rely on is crumbling. Attribution models built on fragile cookie trails and pixel data are rapidly becoming obsolete.

And yet, far too many marketing teams are still using pre-apocalypse tools to try and make post-cookie decisions.

The Cracks Are Already Showing

Let’s be honest: even before the cookiepocalypse, our measurement frameworks were… shaky at best. Clicks ≠ conversions. Last-click attribution ≠ actual influence.

And retargeting? Well, that’s getting more expensive and less effective by the day. The real issue now isn’t just that cookies are disappearing—it’s that marketers are clinging to flawed metrics and broken attribution. We’ve entered a new era, but we’re still using old maps.

What’s Broken: A Quick Rundown

  • Cross-device behavior is impossible to track reliably
  • Walled gardens (Meta, Amazon, TikTok) keep your data in silos
  • Third-party data is vanishing, while user-level IDs are under attack
  • Attribution models can’t explain what would’ve happened without the ad

In short: marketers are flying blind while still thinking they have 20/20 vision.

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What You Need Instead: Incrementality, ML, and Standardized Measurement

This is where Pēq steps in. We don’t just help you survive the cookiepocalypse—we help you build a smarter measurement system that doesn’t depend on cookies, pixels, or patched-together dashboards.

Here’s what that looks like:

🧠 Incrementality-first measurement – Understand which marketing efforts truly drive new value, not just clicks.
📊 Geo-testing and synthetic control groups – No user-level data needed.
⚙️ ML-based attribution models – See lift and ROI without holdouts or tracking IDs.
🧩 Unified, standardized metrics – So your team finally stops arguing about what ROAS means.

The Bottom Line

Cookies were never great. They were just the best we had at the time. Now, better tools exist—if you’re willing to adopt them.

The brands that lean into incrementality, experiment with ML, and embrace standardized, privacy-resilient measurement frameworks will gain an edge as competitors scramble to rebuild their data stacks.

📬 Ready to ditch the duct-tape dashboards and move into the post-cookie era? Let’s talk.

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Why Pēq Prioritizes Incrementality

Why Pēq Prioritizes Incrementality

by | Jun 2, 2025 | Marketing, Incrementality

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Why Pēq Prioritizes Incrementality

peq rikki marlerBy Rikki Marler

Making Sense of Retail Media Measurement

In today’s retail media landscape, understanding what actually moves the needle is more important than ever. At Pēq, we don’t just report numbers—we help brands separate real impact from the noise. That’s why we prioritize incrementality as the gold standard for measuring advertising effectiveness.

It’s not about just counting sales—it’s about knowing which sales wouldn’t have happened without your marketing efforts. Incrementality isn’t the only KPI we can measure – but we lean into it because it shows how advertising directly impacted sales performance. With shrinking budgets, the line between awareness and conversion is continually fading.

Retail media networks are offering ‘one-stop-shop’ capabilities, touting their ability to deliver upper funnel, mid-funnel and lower funnel marketing and media tactics.

With so many different media metrics that can be tracked–CTR, CPC, VCR, Engagement Rate, Open Rate, Conversion Rate, ROAS, New to Brand–here’s why we prioritize the holy grail of marketing: incremental ROAS, incremental sales, and incremental lift.

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Why We Love Incrementality

Incrementality helps brands avoid wasted ad spend and optimize their budgets effectively. Unlike traditional attribution models that assume ads cause conversions just because they happened before a sale, incrementality gives you a clearer picture:

No More Guessing – Find out which campaigns actually create new demand.
Smarter Budgeting – Shift spend to the efforts making the biggest impact.
Future-Proof Insights – Works across retail media, social, TV, and in-store—without relying on cookies or tracking identifiers.

Data-Driven Measurement for Smarter Decisions

Pēq uses advanced AI/Machine Learning testing methodologies, including geo-testing, synthetic control groups, and matched market analysis, to provide brands with precise, actionable insights. Our approach ensures brands aren’t just tracking results—they’re optimizing for real growth.

Want to optimize your retail media strategy and offsite advertising on an even playing field? Let’s talk

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