Emily’s take on:
Using data to hone your media buy
Emily’s specialty is reporting — transforming data about how your ads are performing into useful information to inform your next steps. Depending on the medium, that data might include numbers of impressions and clicks your digital ads received in a time period or the number of TV spots that ran, at what times and in front of whom.
She creates easy-to-read reports and offers analysis so clients can use that information to make their next decisions — adjusting over the course of a campaign to make their most of their media dollars.
‘Traditional’ media
Newspaper ads. Billboards. Radio and TV spots. They might be “traditional media,” but they still do a great job of reaching audiences.
Emily says:
Rather than breaking media in categories (such as traditional vs. new), she considers the opportunities offered by each channel, whether it’s Apple TV, an airplane banner, Instagram or the daily paper.
The intersection of math and life
As a theater lover, Emily was thrilled to land a college internship at the Seattle Children’s Theatre, where her job was to converge ticket sales with marketing. Suddenly, numbers had something to do with real life — an inspiring experience for someone who’d struggled with math as a student.
That intersection is at the heart of her role at DH, too: Data about audiences is information about people — often, in the case of DH clients, people who need information about health or social issues. If Emily can use math to make the connection, she’s a happy media buyer.
Education
Bachelor of arts, public relations, Gonzaga University