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MMM should guide the next media decision, not explain last year's plan. Revology co-designs and builds AI-powered MMM and media allocation models inside your stack.
Most MMM projects hand you a slide deck once a year. By month four, it’s already out of date. There’s a better way. We co-create MMM with your marketing analytics and finance teams, building it as a living decision system inside your own data environment. The approach is practical: a Bayesian hierarchical model using open-source tools like Google Meridian, PyMC-Marketing, or Meta Robyn. We layer in adstock and saturation curves for each channel, calibrate with your geo-lift and holdout tests, and add a budget optimizer on top. For mid-market organizations ($100M–$2B), the model retrains every campaign cycle, so you’re allocating media based on today’s marginal return, not last year’s average ROAS. The result? Credibility intervals your CMO can stand behind in front of the CFO. You own the code and the model. No license fee. In our experience, most teams see a 10–20% shift in media spend toward higher-ROI channels in year one.
If you only look at average ROAS, you're missing the real opportunity. By focusing on the marginal return of each channel, you can shift your budget to where the next dollar will actually drive results. For example, MMM often uncovers that paid search still has room to grow, while a sponsorship channel may already be tapped out. With a constrained budget optimizer, you can translate these insights into a practical, recommended allocation that fits your budget, channel minimums, and campaign timing. This is how you turn analytics into measurable business impact.
MMM isn't just about media; it's about making sure your promotions and advertising actually work together. In our experience, too many organizations run a major TV campaign at the same time as a price promotion, only to realize later that the lift would have happened anyway. By understanding how these levers interact, you can avoid cannibalization and ensure your marketing and promotional efforts are truly complementary. The best part? Both your promo ROI engine and MMM can run off the same data foundation, making alignment practical and achievable.
Once the model is built, you can simulate scenarios such as "What if we increased social spend by 20% and cut back on TV?" and see the predicted effect on sales or brand metrics before the money moves. This forward-looking capability means you are not just learning from the past but planning the next cycle on evidence: a marketing flight simulator for budget planning.
MMM provides an objective, quantitative foundation for discussions about marketing effectiveness. It helps CMOs and CFOs get on the same page, as the contributions of marketing to business outcomes are clearly quantified. Teams have clear metrics to justify spend or make tough decisions on cutting underperforming tactics. This transparency can elevate the credibility of the marketing function within the organization.
We gather historical data on sales (or other performance KPIs) along with marketing spend broken down by channel, and any other relevant variables. This often includes promotional calendars, pricing changes, and external factors like seasonality, holidays, economic indicators, or competitor activities that might also influence sales. We rigorously validate and cleanse the data, aligning spend and sales to the same time periods and ensuring data quality (e.g. correcting any misaligned campaign dates or outliers).
We build your Bayesian hierarchical MMM using open-source frameworks like Google Meridian, PyMC-Marketing, or Meta Robyn, no black boxes, just transparent code. The model attributes sales to each marketing input, controlling for price, promotion, seasonality, and those external factors that always seem to muddy the waters. Adstock handles carryover, saturation curves show you where returns start to flatten, and a geographic or brand hierarchy lets you leverage learnings across markets. If you have geo-lift or conversion-lift studies, we bake those in as priors and validation, so your estimates are grounded in real causal evidence. The result? A marginal ROAS curve for every channel, showing exactly how many incremental dollars your next $1 will earn, with a clear credibility interval.
Instead of delivering results in a static Excel or PDF, we provide the MMM results in an interactive tool. In a Power BI or Tableau dashboard (or a light web app), your team adjusts spending levels across channels and immediately sees the projected impact on sales or ROI, and a constrained optimizer returns the allocation that maximizes incremental revenue or profit under your budget, channel minimums, and flight constraints. It becomes a living tool for budget planning, not a retrospective report.
We train your marketing and analytics teams to interpret the model, challenge it, and rerun it. Because the MMM is built on open-source frameworks with transparent code inside your environment, your team reruns it every campaign cycle as new data lands; you do not hire an external firm each time you want a refresh. The capability is in-house, with no license fee and no per-seat license. If you prefer not to run it yourselves, an optional managed-services agreement keeps the model maintained and evolving. See our webinar, A Guide to In-Sourcing Your Marketing Mix Modeling.
In practice, one retailer discovered their TV spend was delivering less than expected, while digital retargeting was quietly outperforming. After reallocating budget, they landed right in the 10–20% improvement range we typically see in year one. Another client, a consumer electronics company, realized their promotions overlapped with periods of strong organic demand. By rescheduling, they kept volume steady without unnecessary discounts. In both cases, the client’s own team reran the model the next cycle, no outside help needed.
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