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Audience Lift

Wavemaker

Wavemaker’s Audience Lift flipped the viewability challenge on its head, in the process refining measurement of incrementality.

The agency used unviewed ad impressions as a starting point for measurement. These now became the mechanism for making control groups for every aspect of the agency’s campaigns, covering time, media partner, targeting strategy, segment and creative. In the context of a control-versus-exposed test, users who received unviewed ads became a control group and users who received and viewed ads became the exposed group.

A further innovation is focused on processing power for data at scale. Wavemaker typically processes one billion rows of data for a single client, so standard agency technology and approaches were not working. It moved all the analysis into Google Cloud’s Big Query. This computing technology housed and executed the agency’s proprietary code and has the scale to process more than 2GB of data every second.

The product has scaled from a single client/campaign pilot to ‘always on’, and is used by 12 Wavemaker clients – with more coming on stream each month. Feedback from clients has been universally positive, while the product has generated revenues in six figures.