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Media Measurement and the Assisted Own Goal: Attribution, Marketing-Mix Models, and Individual-Level Incrementality

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  • Tobias Konitzer

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We use the assisted own goal hypothesis as a lens into media measurement. A demand-generating (upper-funnel) advertising platform such as a short-video social network can cause an incremental purchase, yet see that purchase booked on -- and credited to -- a downstream trusted marketplace, because consumers who discover a product on the platform complete the transaction elsewhere, for example because of distrust of the generating platform as a psychological mechanism. Under attribution-based return-on-ad-spend (ROAS) measurement, the diverted conversions are invisible to the originating platform. Marketing-mix models (MMMs) do not know which channel to credit with the outcome, and channel-by-week aggregation denies the audience-level granularity that budget decisions require. We develop an incrementality-based measurement model with two ingredients: ambient audience-level randomization -- each activated audience carries its own intent-to-treat (ITT) experiment -- and an individual-level extension of Predicted Incrementality by Experimentation (PIE), which learns a mapping from individual features to experiment-identified incremental outcomes. Because ITT contrasts are computed on channel-complete outcomes, the estimator is unbiased and the own goal disappears

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  • Tobias Konitzer, 2026. "Media Measurement and the Assisted Own Goal: Attribution, Marketing-Mix Models, and Individual-Level Incrementality," Papers 2607.09608, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2607.09608
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