Erwin Penland recognized that while Advance America’s display and search
advertising activities were successful, it was important to find ways to attract more customers while lowering customer acquisition costs. This meant identifying ways to drive down the cost per conversion and attract as many new clients as possible without raising the budget. Erwin Penland and Advance America needed to find ways
to do so successfully, and simultaneously optimize investments across channels.
Erwin Penland Lowers Advance America's eCPA 27% Using Adometry
1. Advertising Firm A Leader in Forrester’s
Interactive Attribution
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Erwin Penland Looks
to Attract More Customers
for Advance America
Erwin Penland recognized that while Advance America’s display and search
ABOUT ERWIN PENLAND advertising activities were successful, it was important to find ways to attract more
customers while lowering customer acquisition costs. This meant identifying ways
Erwin Penland is a fast-growing to drive down the cost per conversion and attract as many new clients as possible
advertising firm that set out to turn the without raising the budget. Erwin Penland and Advance America needed to find ways
traditional agency model on its head. to do so successfully, and simultaneously optimize investments across channels.
Company founders Joe and Gretchen
Erwin, later joined by partner Allen Limitations of Existing Ad Server Analytics Tools
Bosworth, established the firm to give Historically, Erwin Penland leveraged the analytics tools available from its ad server
brands a fresh and collaborative way to to help Advance America refine display and search investments. But those tools had
think about advertising. limited capabilities and could only provide conversion data based on last click or
last event. This approach was ineffective in helping Erwin Penland optimize Advance
For the past 26 years the company America’s campaigns because it was unable to evaluate the complex and sequential
has serviced top brands like Verizon, relationships different campaigns and channels can have on driving conversions.
BMW, Michelin, Denny’s, A.T. Cross Erwin Penland realized it needed a more advanced system to help Advance America
and Lockheed Martin. One of its key achieve its new online marketing goals.
accounts is financial services firm
Advance America – a leading payday Tapping Attribution and Ad Verification to Improve Online
loans provider and successful publicly Campaigns
traded company. Erwin Penland provides In keeping with its promise to go above and beyond for its clients, Erwin Penland
not only creative services to Advance turned to Adometry® – one of the industry leaders in online ad analytics, advanced
America but also runs and oversees the attribution and ad verification technology. Together, the Adometry offerings help
company’s online marketing initiatives, brands optimize their investments in cross-channel online marketing.
including investment in online search
and display advertising. Erwin Penland sought help from Adometry in identifying better ways to allocate and
optimize Advance America’s investments in display and search.
2. First Adometry leveraged its Adometry Validate solution – the
company’s industry-leading ad verification offering. Validate allows Optimization Recommendations Implemented from 11/1/2011
Frequency Capping Recommendations Implemented from 12/8/2011
brands to monitor their campaign’s viewability, including page 18
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location, as well as user-level visibility. $29.00
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Adometry then deployed its advanced attribution and optimization eCPA $23.00
Conversions
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(thousands)
solution – Adometry Attribute. The offering is specifically designed $21.00 6
$19.00 4
to help brands determine how to best invest their advertising $17.00 2
dollars across channels and identify where they can optimize $15.00
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Impact on Advance America’s
Advertising Results
Within three months, Erwin Penland was able to use the Adometry
solutions to achieve the following success: “Adometry’s Attribution and Ad
Analytics Solutions were able to quickly
Using Adometry Validate, Erwin Penland was able to
and accurately deliver significant
• Eliminate ads being placed on brand-damaging sites;
• Optimize their campaigns to identify the right geographies and
improvements for our client’s online
audience segments, and reduce media buy overlaps. marketing campaigns,” said Melissa
Edwards, Associate Media Director for
Using Adometry Attribute, Erwin Penland implemented
Erwin Penland. “By reducing waste and
• Frequency capping recommendations that are based on
Adometry fractional attribution results, and helping us to optimize our cross channel
• Optimization recommendations on budget re-allocation across programs, we delivered 19 percent more
different buys, and improved overall eCPA by 14-20% for each of
conversions and lowered the overall cost
”
the three months following the implementation.
per conversion by 27 percent.
As a result, Erwin Penland was able to deliver 19 percent more
conversions for Advance America while maintaining the same
budget. In addition, the agency lowered Advance America’s overall
cost per conversion by 27 percent. ADOMETRY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES USED
• Adometry Attribute™
• Adometry Validate™
About Adometry
Adometry, Inc. provides cross-channel attribution intelligence, plus auditing and scoring metrics, to optimize results
for the world’s leading online advertisers, publishers, and ad networks. Through its SaaS-based advanced analytics,
Adometry processes and analyzes tens-of-billions of impressions and advertising transactions per month to identify
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the true consumer purchase-decision journey and to maximize marketing ROI. Adometry combines a scientifically
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proven methodology with a flexible and easy to implement solution to generate results in as little as two weeks.
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Ventures and Stanford University. For more information, visit www.adometry.com.
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