About this episode

Skye Frontier discusses the pitfalls of last-touch attribution and the challenges in marketing measurement.

Skye Frontier of Incremental came on ADOTAT to tell me everything the marketing industry doesn't want you to know. He did not disappoint.We got into why ROAS is the high fructose corn syrup of marketing measurement, how 73% of organizations are still running their entire media programs on a metric that has no proven connection to actual sales, and why the platforms selling you attribution software have absolutely no incentive to fix any of this.Skye has spent his career in measurement and incrementality, which means he has spent his career watching smart people cling to broken metrics for completely rational organizational reasons. He explains exactly why that happens, what it costs, and what actually works instead.We also got into retail media, the $59 billion industry that is quietly charging brands to appear on shelves they already stocked, why closed-loop attribution claims from retail media networks deserve the same skepticism as everything else, and who is actually winning the retail media wars and who is pretending to.Then we talked about AI, agentic marketing, and why throwing artificial intelligence at a last-touch attribution problem does not solve the problem. It just…

Topics covered

• ROAS
• attribution
• retail media
• AI in marketing
• incrementality
• marketing measurement

Keywords

• ROAS
• attribution
• retail media
• incrementality
• AI
• marketing metrics
• measurement

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