2026 Agenda

 

You Can’t Measure Success by Success

Michael Bagalman  (VP, Business Intelligence & Data Science, Starz)
Date: Tuesday, October 6
Time: 10:15 am - 10:45 am
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Session Type: Session
Track: Marketing Analytics, Data, & ROI
Vault Recording: TBD

We love success stories, but results alone can’t tell us whether we made good decisions. A campaign can win because of timing, luck, budget, platform changes, or an audience shift no one predicted. Another can miss its targets even though the strategy was sound and the analysis was rigorous.

In this session, we’ll separate outcome quality from decision quality and show how content teams can evaluate campaigns by the strength of their assumptions, evidence, and reasoning… not just by whether “the line went up.” Attendees will leave with a practical framework for building decision logs, stress-testing assumptions, and running retrospectives that turn both wins and losses into honest learning.