Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

From the printing press to Deep Learning, the history of marketing shadows all our great leaps forward in communications technology. It is the marketer’s job to identify how these novel technologies can be used to reach potential customers, and educate them about products and services that enrich their lives.

The printing press let us create posters, radio and television enabled us to speak to people in their homes, and the internet gave us new ways to sell to people. Today, we’d like to take a moment to dive into how marketers can take advantage of the next big leap forward in technology: Deep Learning.

Travel industries face numerous challenges when marketing online. To help you better understand how to form your marketing strategy for the modern world, we’ve compiled a series of 2-minute podcasts hosted by Jim Price, Head of Travel for RTB House America. Here’s a sneak peek of the first few.

The hardest part of business is not usually envisioning where you want to be, it’s implementing a plan of action in logical and effective steps in order to get there. When we’re making plans, these steps will inevitably include a Deep Learning powered retargeting campaign, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Instead, Let’s start with a simple statement:
“We want to increase online sales”.

There are many ways that you might do, such as; improving your online store’s UI and UX, increasing product range, and running promotions. However, the most likely solution is digital ad campaigns. So, you can add focus to your original statement by saying:
“We need to run digital ad campaigns to increase online sales”.

Many companies make a couple of missteps at this point by trying to skip to the end or doing things out of sequence. Here’s a simple breakdown of the questions you need to ask… and the order in which you ask them while evaluating your advertising model options.

The end of third-party tracking cookies is on the horizon, but it’s not as bad as you might think. Despite concerns from some advertisers that losing third-party cookies will make it impossible to deliver personalized advertising, there are already a number of effective solutions in the works to ensure that users can still enjoy relevant ads, without any privacy fears.

Let’s take a quick dive into why third-party tracking cookies are being retired, what that means for your advertising strategy, and why it’s actually a good thing for both customers and advertisers.

In this Media Review, you can find out more about Google updating the Privacy Sandbox timeline, a proposal on how to optimize FLEDGE’s performance by leveraging cloud resources, and a hypothesis around Apple building a DSP.

Consumer tech companies, like Samsung, operate in an environment with high average order values (AOVs) but long gaps between conversions. This means it is essential to maximize individual sales and build brand loyalty that lasts long after a purchase is complete. Companies can best do this by building direct connections with their customers across a variety of sales channels. However, this means overcoming the challenges posed by the loss of access to third-party cookies in the oncoming cookieless future.