Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

As a new year dawns, many of us are looking toward 2023 with trepidation. A potent cocktail of skyrocketing inflation, a looming recession, and general global instability has created a difficult environment for companies in almost every industry. However, things aren’t as bad as they seem, and if companies can take advantage of the evolving MarTech trends, they can thrive despite the adversity.

It’s that time of year again. The RTB House Team is closing the door on 2022, and our marketing team has been enthusiastically sharing their predictions about 2023. Fortunately, our writing team was there to take diligent notes and turn them into some useful marketing trend insights!

So grab yourself a warm beverage, and let’s take stock of where we ended up in 2022, and where marketing trends are going in 2023.

Have you ever downloaded the data Facebook has on you? Or Google? The sheer breadth of data collection has 86% of consumers worried, and this has led to a number of users leaving data-hungry social media platforms. It has also forced organizations like Google to do some soul-searching and adjust their approach to user data, notably by retiring third-party cookies.

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.

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.

Creating an effective customer targeting strategy is a challenge that marketers have consistently faced over the years. A dynamically changing market, evolving consumer behavior and preferences, and the rapid development of new technologies are factors that constantly create challenges. On the one hand, they require a continuous modification of the assumptions and developed strategies, and on the other hand, they open up completely new possibilities – i.e. allow for a better and more effective reach of the target group with the message. Why is it worth diversifying strategies and reaching for both contextual and behavioral targeting? What will the cookieless future bring?