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Microsoft Office Professional 2010, immediately after Microsoft purchased aQuantive (and right after it misplaced its first alleged bid for Yahoo), Microsoft officials were scorching to explain why Web search results must not be viewed as the only or most effective approach to measure online-advertising success.On February 25, Microsoft gave the ad-measurement system — to which it formerly referred vaguely as “conversion attribution” — a new name and a specific launch vehicle.Microsoft;s new proposed ad-measurement metric is now called “Engagement Mapping.” And its “Engagement ROI” (return on investment) is a new integrated reporting capability for the Atlas Media Console, one of aQuantive;s ad platforms that is now owned by Microsoft.The beta for Engagement ROI begins on March 1, “with results expected to be available before the end of the second calendar quarter,” according to the Softies. The beta will be private. Testers will include a handful of Microsoft;s major marketing clients, including Agência Click + UNICA,
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Office Pro 2010 Key, Mindshare Interaction, Monster Worldwide Inc., Neo@Ogilvy, Sprint and World Vision. No word on when the company plans to release the ultimate version of Engagement ROI.Engagement ROI will take into account “the impact that recency, frequency, size and ad format (such as rich media and video) have on a consumer;s on the web path to action.”The unstated implication: Users don;t buy a product because they discovered it via Google lookup. Instead,
Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, people visit a number of different World-wide-web sites before buying. Tracking this behavior is important, as Brian McAndrews, Microsoft;s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Publishing Solutions, explained last 12 months, as “the site that gets credit for prompting a user;s visit is the one that gets paid for it.”Final yr, McAndrews the tracking data would be culled from “individual computers; electronic signatures, not individual people.” Microsoft hasn;t providedany new specifics as to how it will measure user behavior as part of Engagement ROI or Engagement Mapping.