Contextual Targeting

The ultimate aim of digital ad campaigns for any online brand is to serve each unique user with products that they will want to buy or ads that effectively raise the brand’s awareness. The better targeted the ads, the more likely the user is to interact with them.

When setting up ad campaigns, many companies have relied on targeting tools such as their pre-existing assumptions about their customers in order to create target groups for advertising messages. Of course, businesses know an awful lot about who buys their products, and these targeting tools and data are useful. However, making strong assumptions can also lead to bias, which can eliminate valuable potential customers from the campaign.

Although contextual targeting is nothing new, its combination with the potential offered by programmatic can open up completely new possibilities for almost every company. Take the execution of marketing campaigns to a whole new level. Support the achievement of assumed objectives and at the same time ensure the effective use of the budget allocated for this purpose. How does contextual targeting in programmatic work? What benefits can be expected from combining the two tactics?

• Contextual SDA passed both quality tests we performed and described in this article
• The mechanisms we used to assess the contextual SDA signals’ quality were: SSPs’ audiences sent via Deal IDs and RTB House’s proprietary ContextAI engine

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.

Modern advertising is powered by Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytics, which allows marketers to provide more relevant content to potential customers. However, just two decades ago, marketers had no such advantage. So what is programmatic advertising, where did it come from, and how does it work?

Contextual targeting is once again becoming a key talking point for brands and digital advertisers. Those marketers who have been in the game for some time might be feeling a sense of déjà vu, but we’re not going back to the past. In this article, we will explain how AI algorithms are revolutionizing contextual targeting techniques.