Kaja Pryczkowska

Online advertisers and retailers deal in specific numbers and hard data. When you have millions of monthly site visitors, a fractional increase in conversion rates or average order volumes can bring significant value to business results.

The fear around the phasing out of 3rd-party cookies is that bidding efficacy will be severely impacted. Advertisers need assurances that their campaigns will still be performant, that results will be measurable, and that the upcoming change will not be disruptive to business. Thankfully, RTB House has been working on the answer to this problem and has the backing of WC3 and Google for our Outcome-based TURTLEDOVE proposal.

Find out more about how we are ensuring that bidding efficacy will be maintained in the 3rd video from our Cookieless Future series, hosted by our experts Laurie da Silva and Richard Johnson.

Few industry segments have experienced as much disruption as online advertising and digital media in recent years. With the dynamic increase in the use of mobile devices and social media, online advertising agencies have had their hands full adapting to new technologies, new formats, and constantly evolving user behavior.

The profound changes in consumer behavior that have swept the world in the last couple of years have also had distinctive local features. Cultural differences, penetration of technology, and the unique strategies of individual media players have all contributed. Nowhere is this more evident than in Latin America.

To get a sense of how campaigns will look in 2022 and what’s in store for the future of advertising, we talked to David Abad, Digital Strategy Manager at Mediacom, Colombia. We asked him to set out the key trends he sees in consumer behavior and what that means for the brands and agencies targeting them in the years ahead.

Marketers are being proactive in advance of the demise of third-party cookies but challenges, as well as opportunities, remain.

Conducting a full-funnel marketing strategy does not mean targeting everyone in your funnel and pushing them toward conversion. A good full-funnel strategy takes into account how ready different users are for conversion, and serves them with appropriate advertising. For buyers in the conversion stage, who have strong purchase intent, effective ads show specific products and offers and make clicking and converting easy. However, in the upper funnel, you may want people to feel a connection with your brand and plant a seed that grows over time, allowing them to make better purchasing decisions later on. This may take the form of more aspirational or engaging content that makes a real impression.

This kind of contextual analysis of intent and behaviors requires powerful technology. At RTB House, we use the most effective Deep Learning algorithms to achieve this. However, when 3rd-party cookies are switched off in 2022, will it be possible to measure intent so accurately to build bonds with online users? In episode 5 of our Cookieless Future video series, Laurie da Silva and Richard Johnson show how a full-funnel approach will still be possible with only a slight reimagining of the current processes.

Change is constant in digital marketing but 2022 looks set to be a year where landmark shifts, including ID-less advertising and contextual targeting, will be formed. Three of RTB House’s in-house experts predict the huge changes on the horizon.