Why Battle Over Advertising Attribution When Incrementalism Can Win the War?
If you advertise shoes on Facebook and 100 people buy them while the ad is running, is your advertising working? The answer, of course, depends. It depends on how much you spent on advertising versus the revenue generated from those purchases. It depends on factors like other ads on other channels, email marketing, or word of mouth that may have influenced shoppers’ decisions. And most importantly, it also depends on how many sales would have occurred if you didn’t advertise