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In an environment where customers have countless ways to engage with a product before purchasing, we need to rethink how we approach marketing activities. To achieve this, marketers often use a concept coined by Google called the “Zero Moment of Truth” (ZMOT). This represents the moment when customers engage with a product or service online before they make any commitments to purchase it.

Making the most of ZMOT is the key to a successful marketing strategy, particularly regarding retargeting, and this article will help you understand how to do just that.

Programmatic ad campaigns for brand awareness have traditionally been harder to target at the correct online users than performance campaigns as they rely upon more understanding of context and behavior. However, through the use of ultra-powerful algorithms and Deep Learning technology, RTB House has been able to take the lead on brand awareness campaigns and truly target users with great confidence and deliver significant, measurable results.

Our solutions based on Deep Learning technology have been widely recognized and have received the AI Excellence Award, MarTech Breakthrough Award, numerous Stevie Awards, and more.

With the disappearance of 3rd-party cookies coming soon, many businesses fear that the recent progress made on the targeting of brand awareness campaigns will be lost and that we will have to go back to the drawing board. In fact, this is not true. We are already sketching out the future and starting to add colors to the picture of how digital advertising will look in the future. And, in the 4th episode of our Cookieless Future series, Laurie da Silva and Richard Johnson outline how using multiple, more transparent data sources will provide the information needed to create brilliant, highly targeted brand awareness campaigns that also preserve user privacy.

Watch the video to find out all you need to know.

FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) is one of the most significant sectors in the economic market nowadays. It is also recognized as the sector most resistant to the economic crisis, which became clearly visible when pandemic hit. Nevertheless, brand visibility in this sector can be really important. Products in the FMCG sector are the fast-moving ones, the bare necessities. At first glance, it may seem that the FMCG sector does not need such a large visibility increase. However, advertising campaigns are a must-have mainly because of the great competition among brands in the FMCG industry.

Digital advertising has come a long way. From direct deals between brands and publishers to the extensive ecosystem that we operate in now. As did marketing campaign reporting.

Over the past two years, the entire advertising industry has been lively discussing the impending deprecation of third-party cookies and its implications for each side of the ecosystem. There are countless articles outlining the general concept of Google’s Privacy Sandbox and its alternatives, as well as assumptions on what will happen to the industry as a whole. However, when it comes to frequency capping – one of the most important tools for both publishers and advertisers, and arguably the least controversial one privacy-wise – there is not enough media coverage, apart from some calls to address the topic.

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.