December 3, 2020
Marketing Dive: PepsiCo’s in-house technology informs radical shift to digital
Book a Demo
2020-11-30 00:00:00, Peter Adams, Marketing Dive
Content Categorization
/News/Business News
/Food & Drink
/Business & Industrial/Agriculture & Forestry
Word Count:
1464
Words/Sentence:
27
Reading Time:
9.76 min
Reading Quality:
Adept
Readability:
13th to 15th
The move to rework measurement and place a bigger spotlight on in-house technology followed years of growing internal investments in adjacent areas like e-commerce and media buying and planning at PepsiCo, as well as complementary hiring initiatives in specialties like data science and software development.
Even as it represents an ambitious wager on in-house technology, ROI Engine hasn't deprecated PepsiCo's work with external agencies, per Venugopal.
ROI Engine's genesis predates the pandemic, with the idea around the technology first emerging a year and a half ago amid a broader reassessment of PepsiCo's marketing measurement, per Venugopal.
Increasingly central to the marketer's strategy for thriving during and after the COVID-19 pandemic is an in-house technology called ROI Engine, a machine learning-powered measurement system that PepsiCo says allows it to make smarter decisions in measuring campaign effectiveness and return-on-investment (ROI), hence the name.
PepsiCo marketers for a long time held an "informed gut feeling" that TV wasn't providing the same returns as digital, according to Venugopal, and ROI Engine added new credibility to those claims and the confidence to actually make the shift away from linear media, which has historically been a bedrock for many of its brands.
Keywords
marketing-tech, Data/Analytics, marketing, marketing-ad-tech, Ad Tech, marketing-dataanalytics, type-newspost, analytics
Interested in Learning More?
Article Analysis is at the foundation of powerful media monitoring and insights. Learn what you can build with powerful curated search engines, real-time listening and trend analysis on the topics, markets and companies critical to your organization.