Publishers, you're focusing on the wrong metric for push notifications
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With push notifications, there’s never been a more direct way for publishers to build brand evangelism and reach their audience. But if the digital publishing community focuses on incomplete metrics, then there’s a real risk of breaking the whole system, echoing recent statements from the IAB regarding “clickhead” advertising, acknowledging that we need to rethink how we measure online value.
Without an appropriate framework to measure long-term push notification strategies, publishers walk a tightrope between engaging their audience and spamming them. Although high amounts of click-throughs or “tap-throughs” may result in short-term spikes in traffic and ad revenue, they will eventually be detrimental to the overall value of a strategy.
This requires a new metric to measure the net gain in readership created by push notifications.
