Bringing Direct Marketing Disciplines to Online Advertising Betsy Adelstein Vice President Flashtalking, Inc. www.flashtalking.com John Croll Solutions Architect, Mirror Image Internet www.mirror-image.com
Nov 30, 2014
Bringing Direct Marketing Disciplines to Online Advertising
Betsy AdelsteinVice President
Flashtalking, Inc.
www.flashtalking.com
John CrollSolutions Architect,
Mirror Image Internet
www.mirror-image.com
Right Message, Right Audience, Right Time
What is Relevance?
Relevance Increases Performance
1 Yahoo Insights, The Power of Relevancy: The Biometric Impact of Online Advertising, April 18, 20112IPG Media Lab, API-enabled ads pack more punch, March 28, 2011
•People spend 25% more time fixating on ads that are personally relevant to them versus those that are not.
•Contextually relevant ads elicit an emotional response that’s almost twice as high as those without.
Audience Targeting1
•More engaging data-driven ads tend to outperform the disconnected control ads.
•Engagement rates improve from 2.4%- 11.9%.•Several test ads saw post-exposure awareness
rise 2.1%, 2.5% or 8.5% percent•Purchase intent rose 21% versus the control
Message Targeting2
1:1 Relevance Consumers respond to what’s relevant to them RIGHT NOW! Data can power a very
flexible experience as consumers travel through their personalized conversation and truly deliver the one-to-one marketing promise.
Brand Awareness/Engagement
Product Discovery &
Consideration
Product Selection
Why is this brand/product important to me?
What do I need to know about this brand/product to consider it?
How, where, when do I buy it?
Creating Relevance Technology offers the ability use multiple layers of data to maximize each consumer
connection with a brand to maximize responsiveness.
Informed Creative
Messages
AdvancedTargeting
Data
Site Segmentation
Data
Real Time Dynamic Content
Message Interaction or
Inaction
Male/FemaleAgeHHIEducationRent/OwnChildrenEthnicityPurchase behaviorBrand PreferencesRetail DataInterests/ActivitiesFitnessHealth ProfilesFinancial ProfilesSearch BehaviorPage content/context
Geo-localizationTime of Day
Day of the week/dateWeather
Traffic reportsDaily Headlines
TweetsInventory Availability
Financial PerformanceBank Rates
Product pricingSports scores
Concert DatesAirfares
Gaming high scoresWeekly circular/sales
Recently shopped itemsTesting Variables
Offers, backgrounds, fonts, colors, images, call to action, layouts, copy, pricing
EXAMPLE: Contextual Targeting & Messaging
More than doubled CTR Nearly tripled the coupon print rate
How does it work?
Display Advertising Ecosystem
Simple Data Flow
FlexibleData Collection
Engine
Data Warehouse
Web visitors
Reportingand analytics environment
TargetingEngine
Data Collection Logic
You can capture any request attributes based on your business requirements
• User IP Address• (Mobile) Geo-location values derived from user IP (including location, connection type, ISP, and more)• (Mobile) device type• DMA codes• Cookie – existence and values• HTTP Method• Language preference of visitor• Browser type and version• Request URL, including query argument values• Form field contents• HTTP header values• And more
Targeting Logic
Using request attributes and behavioral model data, you can programmatically select and customize the “best” response in real time
• Geography• Device type• Time of day• Local weather• Recognized user• Segmentation data (from the DW)• …
Example: Pixel Tracking
Publisher’s Infrastructure
Advertiser’s Infrastructure
1x1 Clear Pixel
Example: Pixel Tracking
Advertiser’s Infrastructure
1x1 Clear Pixel
Publisher’s Infrastructure
Geolocation, device type,device capabilities
Geotargeted, device specific ads
Example: Mobile Geotargeting
Advertiser’s Infrastructure
Key Points
• Customization = $$$$ !!– Your business is unique
• You don’t need to reinvent the wheel– WURFL, data providers, …
• Scalability, reliability, and availability are critical– You will become integral with your publishing- and advertising- partners online
experience
Thank You
Questions?
Betsy Adelsteinbetsy@flashtalking.comwww.flashtalking.com1-773-960-4162
John Crolljohn.croll@mirror-image.comwww.mirror-image.com1-800-353-2923
Questions
Please type your questions into the chat feature on the upper-right corner of your screen.
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Multicultural Council, June 29, Noon EST • Professional Development Classes
– On-demand training classes available @ iab.net• Conferences
– IAB Innovation Days, June 8-9, NYC – Mobile: IAB Marketplace, July 18, NYC– MIXX Conference, Expo, & Awards, October 3-4, NYC– Ad Operations Summit, November 7, NYC
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