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Adelaide’s AU Power Curve analysis suggests media quality floors to boost brand lift for pain relief brand

Goals

  • Leverage Adelaide AU to assess media quality and the relationship between ad exposures and outcomes
  • Find optimal balance of media quality & frequency to achieve the best results
  • Uncover opportunities to increase efficiency using attention metrics

Approach

  • Analyze the correlation between frequency and outcomes at varying levels of media quality (AU) for each KPI
  • Gradually discard low-AU ad exposures to raise the media quality minimum
  • Identify the optimal AU threshold based on where the correlation between increased exposures and brand lift is the strongest
  • Partner with Lucid to demonstrate that AU Floors drive incremental lift

Finding Optimal Media Quality

Optimal AU Floors for the brand’s KPIs range from 13–18 AU.

Chart showing the AU Floors of optimal media quality for various brand KPIs

Results

Purchase Intent & Favorability Increase with AU Floors

People exposed to four ads with quality above 15 AU were more likely to purchase and favor the product than those exposed to the same number of ads at lower quality, according to Lucid.

40%55%70%85%100%Purchase IntentFavorability+10%+4% Brand Lift: AU Floor of 15 vs. No Media-Quality ControlBrand LiftNo AU FloorAU Optimized

Identical Results for a Lower Cost

The pain-relief brand can use AU Floors to save 9% of media from running in low-quality placements.

$400,000$512,500$625,000$737,500$850,000BAUOptimized-8.5% Display Optimizations: AU Optimizedvs. Business as Usual (BAU)Brand Lift

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