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Mass marketing beats precision targeting, lessons from index investing
Original: How mass marketing outperforms precision targeting—lessons from index investing
Ad Age argues that broad, mass marketing often outperforms narrowly targeted advertising, drawing an analogy with index investing. Just as passive index funds can beat stock pickers by holding the whole market, reaching a wide audience can outperform efforts to micro-target the ideal customer, challenging a core assumption of the digital advertising era.
Why now: Advertisers are debating whether heavy investment in targeted digital ads is actually more effective than traditional broad-reach campaigns.
Evidence
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