Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Big Data

How to Use Data in Media Planning


What is big data ?

Popular term, used to portray the exponential growth and availability of structured/unstructured data.
3 Vs of Big Data (articulated by industry analyst Doug Laney)  :

ü  Volume- many factors creating an increase in data volume. Data is flooding in from social media, more and more data being collected.
o   Data storage use to be a problem but now new problems arise such as how to find relevance within the data and how to create value from the existing data.
ü  Velocity- data flowing in at extraordinary speed and has to be dealt with in a reasonable time. To deal with torrents of data, RFID tags, sensors, and snart metering is used.
o   For many organizations it is challenging to act fast enough to deal with the data velocity.
ü  Variety- data comes in all kinds of different formats. (Structured, unstructured, email, audio, transactions.)
o   Many organizations struggle with managing, merging and governing different variations of data.

SourceSas.com, (2015). What Is Big Data?. [online] Available at: http://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/big-data/what-is-big-data.html



-----Interesting Video: Big Data- What It Means to You

http://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/big-data/what-is-big-data.html



How and when a company should use media agencies?

ü  Marketing and communications needs
ü  To solve a problem/issue
ü  values & opinions of consumers
ü  looking for enhancements

ü  research

Sources:
  • Olap.com, (2015). Big Data Collection: What’s in it for Me? | OLAP.com. [online] Available at: http://olap.com/big-data-collection-whats-in-it-for-me/
  • Kantar, (2015). Coverage. [online] Available at: http://tgi.kantarmedia.com/international/about-us/coverage 


How to collect and analyze media habits ?

v  Web analytics:
Used often by companies using ecommerce. Provides answers to whos looking at your site, unique visitors or not, and how they got there, key words searched..etc.

Important information for any company with a website, facebook page, twitter or other social media site.

SourceWebopedia.com, (2015). What is Web analytics? A Technology Word Definition From Webopedia.com. [online] Available at: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_analytics.html 


What are the ethical and legal issues related to data collection ?
ü  PRIVACY ISSUES
ü  incomplete/ badly done anonymization- when companies try to protect the privacy of indivudals but it doesn’t work as planned.
Example:
*      Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission released data which was part of a study showing state employees’ hospital visits in the mid-1990s. The data was meant to by anonymized. To prove limtiations in anonymizations, a graduate student was able to identify the governor (William Weld.)
- The same student (Latanya Sweeny) resumed her work and was later able to show that 87% of Americans could be recognized  by just using the following points: birthdate, gender, and zip code. 

*      Aug 2006, AOL released 3 months of search queries by 650,000 of its users to the public. Anonymization was tried however the users could be recognized just on the pattern and substance of their searches.

Source: Davis, S., Lambert, E., Geibelson, M. and Rader, M. (2015). Big Data raises big legal issues. [online] Insidecounsel.com. Available at: http://www.insidecounsel.com/2014/03/28/big-data-raises-big-legal-issues 



·         How to make a media plan ? (different steps)
·         Examples of a media plan 



Media Funnel”à “Engagement Pyramid”

Instead of starting with the most extensive reach vehicles, and going down to the 5% that matter. Things can be done vise versa, starting with the 5% and then going to the broader reach.
Some advertisers using this method, like Nike had decreased spending on traditional media by 40% in the past three years despite the fact that they have had a rise in total budget.

Source: Blogs.imediaconnection.com, (2015). The Engagement Pyramid: Turning Media Planning Upside Down « iMediaConnection Blog. [online] Available at: http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/blog/2012/11/29/the-engagement-pyramid-turning-media-planning-upside-down/ 


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