Incrementality in Marketing to Measure the True Impact of Your Campaigns
Here’s something nobody talks about enough: Your best-performing campaign might not be doing anything. Not because the creative is bad. Not because the targeting is off. But because the users it’s “converting” were going to convert anyway. They’d already decided. Your ad just happened to be there when they finally clicked through. That’s the marketing incrementality problem. And if you’re running mobile campaigns purely on last-click attribution, you’re almost certainly paying for conversions you didn’t cause. What Actually Is Incrementality in Marketing? Incremental marketing is the measure of genuine, additional impact your marketing creates. Not reported conversions. Not attributed installs. Actual conversions that happened because of your campaign and wouldn’t have happened without it. Think about it this way. Say your campaign reports 1,000 installs this month. Looks great. But 400 of...