This case study of a Calvin Klein campaign is indicative of what we are seeing across campaigns. As you can see, measurement of a branded video viewership isn’t as simple as looking at the YouTube view counter.
To get the complete picture of a campaign’s impact, marketers need to track not only the viewership of their original assets, but also the viewership of derivative assets – copies, mashups, re-mixes, and spoofs – since those assets show how consumers are engaging with the content. And marketers need to measure all of these assets across the web, not just on one site.
And while True Reach was an innovative concept at its inception, it has become essential for marketers as new sites such as Facebook emerge as video destinations.