Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

With video advertising evolving to make campaigns more efficient and effective, there’s a reason why online marketers are falling in love with the technology.

Austrian architect Victor Gruen came to America during World War Two with an inspired vision. So inspired, in fact, that he went on to design and build something that would define American culture for the next century. Something beautiful and grand, but which the analysts tell us is now dying: The Great American Shopping Mall.

It’s time for our 4th Media Review. This month, we selected 5 stories, such as an update from Chrome on the progress of the Privacy Sandbox and an analysis of the future of reporting.

The digital marketing landscape is a very complex environment. There are many players with different profiles of activities addressing the diverse needs of their clients.

This is not a sports blog, but the story of Billy Beane and the record-breaking 2002 Oakland A’s streak of 20 consecutive wins which actually has a few things in common with running successful data-driven marketing campaigns.

They are both stories of finding value in data that others are not able to uncover or effectively utilize for competitive advantage.

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.