Media Effectiveness

The Paid Media Effectiveness Handbook

Brands have more measurement tools and data than ever before. Yet few are confident they can turn that evidence into better media investment decisions. Developed by WFA and Ebiquity, this handbook provides a practical framework for navigating today's complex measurement landscape and making more effective paid media decisions.

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The Paid Media Effectiveness Handbook

What's inside

The Paid Media Effectiveness Handbook helps media and marketing leaders:

  • Understand how MMM, attribution, experiments and brand metrics work together
  • Navigate conflicting data, methodologies and dashboards
  • Build stronger connections between measurement and investment decisions
  • Improve commercial alignment across marketing, media and finance teams
Based on research with senior leaders from global advertisers representing more than $40 billion in annual advertising spend.

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“Paid media advertising is a $1.15 trillion industry, the size of Switzerland's entire GDP, yet too much of that investment is still allocated based on vanity metrics and weak processes. This handbook gives marketers a practical system to turn spend into genuine growth and full commercial alignment across their business."

- Ruben Schreurs, Group CEO, Ebiquity

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Why is this handbook important?

80%

of advertisers already use MMM and brand lift studies

Only 13%

rate themselves strong at turning data into insight quickly

Less than 3%

are fully confident separating short-term and long-term impact

75%

expect budget decisions to become increasingly measurement-led

“The tools are there, the discipline is there, the coverage is there. Where marketers still struggle is to turn all those measurements into decisions that impact the business.”

- Sorin Patilinet, Global Marketing Effectiveness & Growth Strategies Innovation at PepsiCo

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Global media leaders on effectiveness

Coca-Cola, Reckitt, PepsiCo & Booking.com on the importance of media effectiveness

Reckitt, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Les Binet: What actually counts as effective media?

PepsiCo, Nestlé, Booking.com, Reckitt: What to do when your media metrics disagree?

What would make media effectiveness easier? Views from Coca-Cola, Reckitt, Nestlé, Les Binet