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A Beginner’s Guide to Channel Attribution Modeling in Marketing

Introduction

In a typical ‘from think to buy’ customer journey, a customer goes through multiple touch points before zeroing in on the final product to buy. This is even more prominent in the case of e-commerce sales. It is relatively easier to track which are the different touch points the customer has encountered before making the final purchase.

As marketing moves more and more towards the consumer driven side of things, identifying the right channels to target customers has become critical for companies. This helps companies optimise their marketing spend and target the right customers in the right places.

More often than not, companies usually invest in the last channel which customers encounter before making the final purchase. However, this may not always be the right approach. There are multiple channels preceding that channel which eventually drive the customer conversion. The underlying concept to study this behavior is known as ‘multi-channel attribution modeling.’

In this article, we look at what channel attribution is and how it ties into the concept of Markov chains. We’ll also take a case study of an e-commerce company to understand how this concept works, both theoretically and practically (using R).

Table of Contents

What is Channel Attribution?

Markov Chains

Removal Effect

Case Study of an E-Commerce Company

Implementation in R

What is Channel Attribution?

Google Analytics offers a standard set of rules for attribution modeling. As per Google, “An attribution model is the rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions is assigned to touchpoints in conversion paths. For example, the Last Interaction model in Analytics assigns 100% credit to the final touchpoints (i.e., clicks) that immediately precede sales or conversions. In contrast, the First Interaction model assigns 100% credit to touchpoints that initiate conversion paths.”

We will see the last interaction model and first interaction model later in this article. Before that, let’s take a small example and understand channel attribution a little further. Let’s say we have a transition diagram as shown below:

In the above scenario, a customer can either start their journey through channel ‘C1’ or channel ‘C2’. The probability of starting with either C1 or C2 is 50% (or 0.5) each. Let’s calculate the overall probability of conversion first and then go further to see the effect of each of the channels.

P(conversion) = P(C1 -> C2 -> C3 -> Conversion) + P(C2 -> C3 -> Conversion)

= 0.5*0.5*1*0.6 + 0.5*1*0.6 = 0.15 + 0.3 = 0.45

Markov Chains

Markov chains is a process which maps the movement and gives a probability distribution, for moving from one state to another state. A Markov Chain is defined by three properties:

State space – set of all the states in which process could potentially exist

Transition operator –the probability of moving from one state to other state

Current state probability distribution – probability distribution of being in any one of the states at the start of the process

We know the stages through which we can pass, the probability of moving from each of the paths and we know the current state. This looks similar to Markov chains, doesn’t it?

Removal Effect

This is, in fact, an application of a Markov chains. We will come back to this later; let’s stick to our example for now. If we were to figure out what is the contribution of channel 1 in our customer’s journey from start to end conversion, we will use the principle of removal effect. Removal effect principle says that if we want to find the contribution of each channel in the customer journey, we can do so by removing each channel and see how many conversions are happening without that channel being in place.

For example, let’s assume we have to calculate the contribution of channel C1. We will remove the channel C1 from the model and see how many conversions are happening without C1 in the picture, viz-a-viz total conversion when all the channels are intact. Let’s calculate for channel C1:

P(Conversion after removing C1) = P(C2 -> C3 -> Convert)

= 0.5*1*0.6

= 0.3

30% customer interactions can be converted without channel C1 being in place; while with C1 intact, 45% interactions can be converted. So, the removal effect of C1 is

0.3/0.45 = 0.666.

The removal effect of C2 and C3 is 1 (you may try calculating it, but think intuitively. If we were to remove either C2 or C3, will we be able to complete any conversion?).

This is a very useful application of Markov chains. In the above case, all the channels – C1, C2, C3 (at different stages) – are called transition states; while the probability of moving from one channel to another channel is called transition probability.

Customer journey, which is a sequence of channels, can be considered as a chain in a directed Markov graph where each vertex is a state (channel/touch-point), and each edge represents transition probability of moving from one state to another. Since the probability of reaching a state depends only on the previous state, it can be considered as a memory-less Markov chain.

Case Study of an E-Commerce Company

Let’s take a real-life case study and see how we can implement channel attribution modeling.

An e-commerce company conducted a survey and collected data from its customers. This can be considered as representative population. In the survey, the company collected data about the various touch points where customers visit before finally purchasing the product on its website.

In total, there are 19 channels where customers can encounter the product or the product advertisement. After the 19 channels, there are three more cases:

#20 – customer has decided which device to buy;

#21 – customer has made the final purchase, and;

#22 – customer hasn’t decided yet.

The overall categories of channels are as below:CategoryChannel Website (1,2,3) Company’s website or competitor’s website Research Reports (4,5,6,7,8) Industry Advisory Research Reports Online/Reviews (9,10) Organic Searches, Forums Price Comparison (11) Aggregators Friends (12,13) Social Network Expert (14) Expert online or offline Retail Stores (15,16,17) Physical Stores Misc. (18,19) Others such as Promotional Campaigns at various location

Now, we need to help the e-commerce company in identifying the right strategy for investing in marketing channels. Which channels should be focused on? Which channels should the company invest in? We’ll figure this out using R in the following section. To complement such advanced analytics, companies often engage AI consulting firms to integrate predictive capabilities into their business processes.

Implementation using R

Let’s move ahead and try the implementation in R and check the results. You can download the dataset here and follow along as we go. #Install the libraries install.packages("ChannelAttribution") install.packages("ggplot2") install.packages("reshape") install.packages("dplyr") install.packages("plyr") install.packages("reshape2") install.packages("markovchain") install.packages("plotly") #Load the libraries library("ChannelAttribution") library("ggplot2") library("reshape") library("dplyr") library("plyr") library("reshape2") library("markovchain") library("plotly") #Read the data into R > channel = read.csv("Channel_attribution.csv", header = T) > head(channel)

Output:R05A.01R05A.02R05A.03R05A.04…..R05A.18R05A.19R05A.20 16 4 3 5   NA NA NA 2 1 9 10   NA NA NA 9 13 20 16   NA NA NA 8 15 20 21   NA NA NA 16 9 13 20   NA NA NA 1 11 8 4   NA NA NA

We will do some data processing to bring it to a stage where we can use it as an input in the model. Then, we will identify which customer journeys have gone to the final conversion (in our case, all the journeys have reached final conversion state).

We will create a variable ‘path’ in a specific format which can be fed as an input to the model. Also, we will find out the total occurrences of each path using the ‘dplyr’ package. > for(row in 1:nrow(channel)) {   if(21 %in% channel[row,]){channel$convert[row] = 1} } > column = colnames(channel) > channel$path = do.call(paste, c(channel[column], sep = " > ")) > head(channel$path) [1] "16 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 10 > 8 > 6 > 8 > 13 > 20 > 21 > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > 1"     [2] "2 > 1 > 9 > 10 > 1 > 4 > 3 > 21 > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > 1"     [3] "9 > 13 > 20 > 16 > 15 > 21 > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > 1" [4] "8 > 15 > 20 > 21 > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > 1" [5] "16 > 9 > 13 > 20 > 21 > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > 1" [6] "1 > 11 > 8 > 4 > 9 > 21 > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > NA > 1" > for(row in 1:nrow(channel)) {   channel$path[row] = strsplit(channel$path[row], " > 21")[[1]][1] } > channel_fin = channel[,c(23,22)] > channel_fin = ddply(channel_fin,~path,summarise, conversion= sum(convert)) > head(channel_fin)

Output:pathconversion 1 > 1 > 1 > 20 1 1 > 1 > 12 > 12 1 1 > 1 > 14 > 13 > 12 > 20 1 1 > 1 > 3 > 13 > 3 > 20 1 1 > 1 > 3 > 17 > 17 1 > 1 > 6 > 1 > 12 > 20 > 12 1 > Data = channel_fin > head(Data)

Output:pathconversion 1 > 1 > 1 > 20 1 1 > 1 > 12 > 12 1 1 > 1 > 14 > 13 > 12 > 20 1 1 > 1 > 3 > 13 > 3 > 20 1 1 > 1 > 3 > 17 > 17 1 1 > 1 > 6 > 1 > 12 > 20 > 12 1

Now, we will create a heuristic model and a Markov model, combine the two, and then check the final results. > H <- heuristic_models(Data, 'path', 'conversion', var_value='conversion') > H

Output:channel_namefirst_touch_conversions…..linear_touch_conversionslinear_touch_value 1 130   73.773661 73.773661 20 0   473.998171 473.998171 12 75   76.127863 76.127863 14 34   56.335744 56.335744 13 320   204.039552 204.039552 3 168   117.609677 117.609677 17 31   76.583847 76.583847 6 50   54.707124 54.707124 8 56   53.677862 53.677862 10 547   211.822393 211.822393 11 66   107.109048 107.109048 16 111   156.049086 156.049086 2 199   94.111668 94.111668 4 231   250.784033 250.784033 7 26   33.435991 33.435991 5 62   74.900402 74.900402 9 250   194.07169 194.07169 15 22   65.159225 65.159225 18 4   5.026587 5.026587 19 10   12.676375 12.676375 > M <- markov_model(Data, 'path', 'conversion', var_value='conversion', order = 1)> M

Output:channel_nametotal_conversiontotal_conversion_value 1 82.482961 82.482961 20 432.40615 432.40615 12 83.942587 83.942587 14 63.08676 63.08676 13 195.751556 195.751556 3 122.973752 122.973752 17 83.866724 83.866724 6 63.280828 63.280828 8 61.016115 61.016115 10 209.035208 209.035208 11 118.563707 118.563707 16 158.692238 158.692238 2 98.067199 98.067199 4 223.709091 223.709091 7 41.919248 41.919248 5 81.865473 81.865473 9 179.483376 179.483376 15 70.360777 70.360777 18 5.950827 5.950827 19 15.545424 15.545424

Before going further, let’s first understand what a few of the terms we’ve seen above mean.

First Touch Conversion: The conversion happening through the channel when that channel is the first touch point for a customer. 100% credit is given to the first touch point.

Last Touch Conversion: The conversion happening through the channel when that channel is the last touch point for a customer. 100% credit is given to the last touch point.

Linear Touch Conversion: All channels/touch points are given equal credit in the conversion.

Getting back to the R code, let’s merge the two models and represent the output in a visually appealing manner which is easier to understand. # Merges the two data frames on the "channel_name" column. R <- merge(H, M, by='channel_name') # Select only relevant columns R1 <- R[, (colnames(R) %in %c('channel_name', 'first_touch_conversions', 'last_touch_conversions', 'linear_touch_conversions', 'total_conversion'))] # Transforms the dataset into a data frame that ggplot2 can use to plot the outcomes R1 <- melt(R1, id='channel_name') # Plot the total conversions ggplot(R1, aes(channel_name, value, fill = variable)) +   geom_bar(stat='identity', position='dodge') +   ggtitle('TOTAL CONVERSIONS') +   theme(axis.title.x = element_text(vjust = -2)) +   theme(axis.title.y = element_text(vjust = +2)) +   theme(title = element_text(size = 16)) +   theme(plot.title=element_text(size = 20)) +   ylab("")

The scenario is clearly visible from the above graph. From the first touch conversion perspective, channel 10, channel 13, channel 2, channel 4 and channel 9 are quite important; while from the last touch perspective, channel 20 is the most important (in our case, it should be because the customer has decided which product to buy). In terms of linear touch conversion, channel 20, channel 4 and channel 9 are coming out to be important. From the total conversions perspective, channel 10, 13, 20, 4 and 9 are quite important.

End Notes

In the above chart we have been able to figure out which are the important channels for us to focus on and which can be discarded or ignored. This case gives us a very good insight into the application of Markov chain models in the customer analytics space. E-commerce companies can now confidently create their marketing strategy and distribute their marketing budget using data driven insights. Our team of experienced AI consulting firms can assist you in transforming these insights into impactful business outcomes.

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