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mektrik
7y ago
I'm an advertiser, worked agency & in-house, and have used approaches like Causal's in the past. As the other comments mention, simulations aren't going to let you answer these questions if you can't already answer t
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mektrik
7y ago
Thank you!
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mektrik
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Thanks!
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mektrik
7y ago
This is incredible, thank you! Also thanks for flagging the issue on the submission form, I've just fixed it :)
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mektrik
7y ago
100% possible! There's still the question of whether you'd put them on the existing site, or make a new (more general) site to host all the links on. Definitely keen for thoughts as I'm torn between the two
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Thanks! Yeah I've definitely been tempted with adding more ideas like these. The one question I've struggled with, and would be super keen for your thoughts on, is whether it'd look okay to have them on the virtualmuseums.io
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7y ago
Hey folks, I’m the creator of virtualmuseums.io I built it after seeing a bunch of articles listing virtual museums around the world. I felt like part of the point of touring these virtual museums was to capture just a tiny bit of the fun o
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Show HN: A map of the world's virtual museums
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Using UV to show the effectiveness of different hand-washing techniques
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15 Graphs Which Show How Coronavirus Is Changing What We Search For
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Show HN: An interactive Covid-19 growth model
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Show HN: An interactive Covid-19 growth forecaster
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7y ago
Are you referring to the first graph in the post? If so, great question. I haven't looked into this much but wouldn't expect it to be parabolic - that was just an approximation to illustrate the points raised.
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7y ago
You're right that there's more than just last-click cost per conversion, but that doesn't mean this approach is incompatible with these extra complexities. You might run conversion lift tests as a way to calculate the impact
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7y ago
Hi folks, I'm the author of the post — I wrote it because I think a lot of brands tend to pluck numbers out of thin air when they're talking about marketing targets, without knowing how they're affecting their bottom line. Th
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This is a good point, and you're right that some brands work this way. I've worked agency and in-house, and most of time I've worked without budgets, just trying to maximise volume at a particular CPA. More brands are moving
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Battle of the Bots: How Market Makers Fight It Out on Crypto Exchanges
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Facebook still makes it easy to target ads to cancer patients, Muslims, etc.
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Mathematical marketing: a piece of calculus to change the way you advertise
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Fixing Dark Patterns: making Google search ads visible again
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Fixing Dark Patterns: Making Google Search Ads Visible Again
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Black Hat PPC: How Does Referral Code Fraud Work?
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Show HN: How to Build Probabilistic Marketing Forecasts
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Privacy for Sale: How to Target Cancer Sufferers with Facebook Ads for $99/Month
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Facebook Scraping, Still a Privacy Disaster
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Banning Micro-Targeting Won’t Solve Facebook’s Political Ads Dilemma
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CPA: The Most Misunderstood Metric in Marketing
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Banning Micro-Targeting Won’t Solve Facebook’s Political Ads Dilemma
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