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Top 3 Tips from Eppo's Geolift Launch
Marketing data is more abundant than ever, however, it often feels out of reach. Eppo’s latest launch of GeoLift revolutionizes how marketers assess and grow your campaigns.
During our discussion with Greg Dale (Marketing Experimentation Leader at Eppo), and Bryce Casavant (Sr. Data Scientist at Whoop) we shared insights on the core challenges marketers face, discussed the transformative potential of incrementality testing, and illustrated the power of experimentation in building a data-driven culture. Here's what you need to know.
Key Insights from the Eppo GeoLift Webinar:
1. Building a Learning Culture for Incrementality
Greg hit on something we've all felt - that end-of-quarter moment when you're staring at attribution reports and MMM models, trying to figure out where your budget actually made an impact. His take? Stop guessing and start proving it through rigorous testing.
"At the end of the quarter...we all tend to look back and say where did my money go? Like, where's the actual lift in revenue and the metrics that I care about?" - Greg Dale
The reality check from Greg was refreshing: at Eppo, they've found that across all types of business experiments, roughly a third work as intended, a third do nothing, and a third actually hurt performance. Without proper testing, you're flying blind on which bucket your campaigns fall into. This isn't just about better marketing - it's about building a culture where decisions are based on evidence, not hunches.
2. Lessons from Whoop: Real Business Metrics Over Vendor Data
Bryce walked us through how Whoop evolved their approach from relying on channel-specific data to focusing on actual business impact through GeoLift testing and MMM.
Many marketing channels make it easy to test and evaluate success using the metrics provided by that channel, but there are always issues. As Bryce stated, "One person might be on Facebook, go to Google, and then go to Pinterest and TikTok... It actually ends up being four [attributions] versus one." Unlike metrics controlled and manipulated by third-party platforms, business metrics from the data warehouse provide a precise picture of ROI. As Greg mentioned, "We actually test using business metrics—your actual purchases, your GMV [gross merchandise value]."
Some practical lessons from Whoop's experience:
- On managing short-term pressure: "Our business is very data-driven... We start from a first principle [with data].” His focus on selling the long-term efficiency gains resonated: "Yes, we might lose some sales today, but tomorrow we'll allocate our budget and get two times what we would have gotten."
- They've built a central source of truth combining GeoLift, MMM, and attribution data to spot opportunities and systematically test them.
- Consolidating all their testing data and learnings in Eppo has made it way easier to get buy-in from leadership and build on past insights.
3. Applying GeoLift to Maximize Marketing ROI
The old way of testing geographic impacts usually meant comparing a couple of cities and hoping they were similar enough. Eppo's approach is much more sophisticated - they use data from multiple markets to build synthetic control groups based on historical patterns. As Greg put it, "Instead of picking one market, we're picking many markets and using past behavior to assemble a synthetic control."g
This opens up new possibilities. As Bryce noted, you can test incremental spend changes (like going from $1k to $2k in daily budget) multiple times to map out saturation curves and optimize your spending.
Key Takeaways
The big themes that emerged:
- You need a culture of testing to cut through the noise in marketing data. A learning culture centered around real experimentation is necessary to sift through the noise of today’s fragmented marketing data. Incrementality testing offers a clear view of what drives revenue and success.
- Focus on real business metrics, not what platforms tell you. This shift provides transparency, accuracy, and trust within the organization, aligning efforts across teams.
- Incrementality matters. Tools like Eppo GeoLift make it possible to actually measure incremental impact and optimize spend
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Final Thoughts
Marketing measurement isn't getting any simpler, but this conversation showed there's a path forward. By combining smart testing tools with a focus on real business outcomes, companies can start making decisions based on what actually works, not what they think might work. As Bryce concluded during the discussion, “Ultimately, if you're spending a little here [and] losing, you won’t be doing that again if you weren’t measuring it... Learning about your business ensures better outcomes, every time.”
Interested in learning more? Get a personalized walkthrough of Eppo’s GeoLift and experimentation platform.
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