In the dynamic realm of digital advertising, the Modern Marketing Association (MMA) embarked on a pioneering project with the aim to standardize engagement metrics—a keystone for evaluating campaign effectiveness and ensuring equitable evaluation of awards entries. This comprehensive guide captures the journey of the Engagement Metrics Project from its ambitious beginnings to its pivot – a pragmatic decision made in the face of the industry's complex digital ecosystem particularly with video metrics.

In the past couple of years, Southeast Asia saw accelerated growth and changes in the technology landscape due to the COVID pandemic businesses experienced a boom in e-commerce, digital behaviors are normalized among consumers, and B2C engagement had adapted to the digital space. Now that it’s a norm for consumers to shop omnichannel and across multiple digital platforms, the next challenge for brands is to enhance consumers’ shopping experience and strengthen engagement in the future of integrated commerce.

In the past couple of years, Southeast Asia saw accelerated growth and changes in the technology landscape due to the COVID pandemic - businesses experienced a boom in e-commerce, digital behaviors are normalized among consumers, and B2C engagement had adapted to the digital space. Now that it’s a norm for consumers to shop omnichannel and across multiple digital platforms, the next challenge for brands is to enhance consumers’ shopping experience and strengthen engagement in the future of integrated commerce.

As digital services become mainstream and consumer behaviors continue to evolve with this shift, brands must keep up to drive relevance and preference. To help brands navigate the modern marketing challenges, MMA in partnership with GroupM and Google present Ecosystem Report 2021: Modern Marketing, that brings together consumer behavior and digital strategies to help brands advance their digital marketing maturity, with case studies on various trends such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Measurement, and Programmatic.