The evaluation of integrated campaigns is a topic rarely looked at by the mainstream marketing press. Flick through the pages of Campaign, Marketing, Marketing Week or niche publications like New Media Age and barely a nod is cast in the direction of campaign evaluation. Why? It’s simply assumed and taken for granted that campaign evaluation ‘works’. After all, each marketing channel has its own tried and tested method of measuring effectiveness and verifying ROI.

To most commentators schooled in their various areas of marketing expertise, it would seem that all is rosy in the land of campaign evaluation. Of course, to some extent it is but wait, what happens when…

Whilst the fragmentation of traditional media was already an unstoppable process a decade ago, there is no doubt that the digital revolution has added its own mix of rocket fuel which is becoming more potent with every technological advance. We’ve become a fractile society of individuals in a way that, as Lord Rees Mogg asserts in “The Sovereign Individual”, could eventually even undermine the power of nation states themselves. It will demand a radical re-assessment of the world we live in and the way that as humans we interact with each other.

As part of these seismic trends, marketers are ill-prepared for the changes in media that now loom on the horizon, all driven by the very industry we work…