Marketing, measured
Outline
Sarah's week across four platforms. One $120 sale, claimed four times.
Three reasons today's measurement keeps falling short of what marketing, finance, and leadership need.
How modern marketing modeling actually works — and why the industry has already moved on.
The team, the platform, the data we need, and how we'd run a pilot together.
01 · The customer

01 · The customer / Day 1
No purchase. The pixel records a view, a click, a session of 47 seconds.
01 · The customer / Day 2
Brand exposure recorded. No click. No site visit. No conversion attached.
01 · The customer / Day 3 AM
No click. No site visit. The platform records an impression and a scroll-away event.
01 · The customer / Day 3 PM
Branded search, last click. The receipt lands in inbox. The purchase is recorded.
02 · The reality
02 · The reality / Aggregate
Reported total · $3.29M · ROAS inflated
Actual total · $1.0M · one truthful number
02 · The reality / Diagnosis
Today's tools miss what still drives outcomes: offline activity, cross-channel synergy, brand health, and competitor pressure.
The data exists, but no two systems agree, and stitching them together is a manual project rather than a tool feature.
Connecting marketing effort to finance and leadership decisions stays a manual translation exercise, not a model output.
03 · The shift / Methodology
03 · The shift
Cross‑media, holistic measurement is the only approach that captures the total contribution of advertising.
WFA · Cross‑Media Measurement Principles
Siloed measurement leads to siloed optimization. Channels work in synergy. Social amplifies Search, TV amplifies Digital.
Ipsos MMA
We've moved beyond last‑click. The honest measure of marketing is its incremental contribution to outcomes.
Google
We had to stop optimizing what was easy to track and start measuring what actually drove the business.
Marc Pritchard · Chief Brand Officer, P&G
Performance marketing made us short‑termist. We had to go back to measuring brand and base.
Keith Weed · former CMO, Unilever
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04 · The product
Marketing analytics and automation that turns campaign data chaos into the four things you actually want: insights, reporting, smarter budgets, and recommendations.
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04 · Mintveo / Team
Same models the world's biggest brands have used for decades. Finally available for your data
Founded February 2026 · San Francisco
04 · Mintveo / Solution
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05 · Live
06 · How we work together / Data
06 · How we work together / Timeline
Client shares all data with Mintveo
Cleaning, transformation & validation
Mintveo presents data review to client for approval
Once approved, modeling begins
Mintveo shares initial insights
Follow‑up meeting to present final model outcome
07 · Close