Posts Tagged ‘Advertising Value Equivalence’

The Latest Chapter in the Great AVE Debate

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I love debates about measurement best practices, so I was thrilled when I saw that the Institute for Public Relations published a paper by Angela Jeffrey and colleagues supporting the use of “weighted media costs” as a replacement for Advertising Value Equivalence (AVE). The paper has already stirred a bit of controversy (also see comments here). But, I think there is some value in the paper that is getting lost in the debate—the more metrics you use to estimate PR ...