Contextual Targeting

2023 has been a year of big changes for marketers. Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT have transformed how many of us do our jobs, third-party cookies are on the cusp of being retired, and consumers have become more privacy-conscious than ever before. Despite the enormity of these changes, in many ways they’ve just set the scene for the big things to come in 2024. To understand what’s going on, we’ll briefly review MarTech trends in 2023, and then dive into the top MarTech trends in 2024.

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.

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.

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?

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 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