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Sid Shah

Dr. Siddharth “Sid” Shah, director of business analytics for Adobe’s Digital Marketing Business, and his team oversee the performance and strategic development of its client accounts. He has a background in algorithm development and statistics which he formerly used to push biomedical imaging boundaries and now uses it to enhance the performance of his clients’ campaigns. Although Dr. Shah has a penchant for bad nerdy one-liners ("Don’t drink and derive, alcohol and algebra don’t mix"), he is always interested in explaining complex mathematical methods in simple, elegant ways to business audiences. When he is not working with business models (which he finds more beautiful than super-models), he can be found hanging off cliffs in some of California's National parks. Previously, Dr. Shah was director of business analytics at Efficient Frontier, which Adobe acquired in January 2012. He has a double masters and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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St. Patrick’s Day, Triggers and Why All A/B Testers Should Buy Guinness a Drink

Digital Advertising, Digital Marketing · By Sid Shah On April 3, 2013 · Add Comment

“He was a wise man who invented beer.” - Plato

It should be no sur­prise that St. Patrick’s Day makes us think of all things Irish. In fact, as per Google Cor­re­late, most of the things Amer­i­cans asso­ciate with St. Patrick’s Day are food related – Irish Stew, Irish pota­toes recipes, Irish bread. Amer­i­cans also...

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The 2012 Retail Season in Paid Search

Digital Advertising, Retail & Travel, Search Engine Marketing · By Sid Shah On January 17, 2013 · 5 Comments
US Retail Spend

Given the end of 2012 and talks of eco­nomic uncer­tainty being averted in early 2013 with the res­o­lu­tion of the fis­cal cliff, we thought it would be a good time to review the 2012 retail sea­son from a paid search per­spec­tive and pre­dict what 2013 has in store for online mar­keters and adver­tis­ers. As we...

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Best Practices for Maximizing Retail Ad Spend with Google PLAs

Digital Advertising, Search Engine Marketing · By Sid Shah On November 28, 2012 · 2 Comments
Google PLAs

The hol­i­days are a hec­tic time for every­one, espe­cially for retail­ers try­ing to max­i­mize their sales per­for­mance dur­ing this cru­cial sea­son. This year brings an addi­tional chal­lenge (and oppor­tu­nity) with the tran­si­tion from free Google Shop­ping to paid Prod­uct List­ing Ads (PLAs). The for­merly free Google Shop­ping chan­nel has become a major paid...

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Q3 2012 Global Digital Advertising Update and Outlook

Digital Advertising, Digital Index, Digital Marketing, Mobile, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media · By Sid Shah On October 21, 2012 · Add Comment
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Today, we released our Q3 2012 Global Dig­i­tal Adver­tis­ing Update, which high­lights cur­rent dig­i­tal adver­tis­ing trends and pro­vides an out­look on what’s next for the indus­try. Our analy­sis shows that paid search spend­ing con­tin­ues to rise glob­ally. Fur­ther­more, the increase is com­ing from a growth in clicks and not from Cost-Per-Click (CPC) growth....

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Q2 2012 Global Digital Advertising Update and Emerging Trends

Digital Advertising, Digital Index, Digital Marketing · By Sid Shah On July 24, 2012 · 4 Comments
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Today, we released our Q2 2012 Global Dig­i­tal Adver­tis­ing Update with some indus­try insights on hot trends and where we see the mar­ket headed. Based on our report find­ings, search spend among adver­tis­ers remains strong with a grow­ing empha­sis on mobile devices as tablet con­ver­sion rates con­tinue to exceed desk­top con­ver­sion rates. The...

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Do Facebook ads carry their weight?

Digital Advertising, Social Media · By Sid Shah On May 17, 2012 · 2 Comments
Schematic Response Curves

Recent reports have sug­gested that Face­book adver­tis­ing is not very effec­tive and in com­par­i­son to Google pro­vides sig­nif­i­cantly less value. There has been some inter­est­ing debate about this com­par­i­son, which peaked when GM announced it was not find­ing Face­book adver­tis­ing effec­tive and cut its Face­book ad bud­get. How­ever, other reports have sug­gested that brands such...

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Adobe Releases First Global Digital Advertising Update for Q1 2012

Digital Advertising, Digital Index · By Sid Shah On April 11, 2012 · Add Comment
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Today marks an impor­tant mile­stone for the Adobe Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing Busi­ness with the release of the Adobe Dig­i­tal Index: Global Dig­i­tal Adver­tis­ing Update for Q1 2012. Data for this report is derived from the for­mer Effi­cient Fron­tier, which was acquired by Adobe in Jan­u­ary 2012. This report is focused on dig­i­tal...

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What do Flat CPCs Indicate a Drop in Advertising Spend?

Search Engine Marketing · By Sid Shah On March 27, 2012 · Add Comment

Ahead of quar­terly State of the Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing report, now part of the Adobe Dig­i­tal Index report, which will be dis­sem­i­nated on April 10, 2012. I took a look at recent CPC trends across ver­ti­cals and what this might mean for adver­tis­ing spend. To see that analy­sis, visit: http://​blog​.efron​tier​.com/​i​n​s​i​g​h​t​s​/​2​0​1​2​/​0​3​/​d​o​-​f​l​a​t​-​c​p​c​s​-​i​n​d​i​c​a​t​e​-​a​-​d​r​o​p​-​i​n​-​a​d​v​e​r​t​i​s​i​n​g​-​s​p​e​n​d​.​h​tml

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Facebook’s IPO: The $100 Billion Question for Marketers

Analytics · By Sid Shah On February 9, 2012 · Add Comment
Now that Facebook has filed its IPO there is much speculation regarding its value and how being a public company will impact the social network for consumers and brands. While it is up to Wall Street to value the company’s true worth, we, as marketers, should look at some key Facebook trends to evaluate future Facebook monetization opportunities and what it means for brands.
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