Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

Travel industries face numerous challenges when marketing online. To help you better understand how to form your marketing strategy for the modern world, we’ve compiled a series of 2-minute podcasts hosted by Jim Price, Head of Travel for RTB House America. Here’s a sneak peek of the first few.

The hardest part of business is not usually envisioning where you want to be, it’s implementing a plan of action in logical and effective steps in order to get there. When we’re making plans, these steps will inevitably include a Deep Learning powered retargeting campaign, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Instead, Let’s start with a simple statement:
“We want to increase online sales”.

There are many ways that you might do, such as; improving your online store’s UI and UX, increasing product range, and running promotions. However, the most likely solution is digital ad campaigns. So, you can add focus to your original statement by saying:
“We need to run digital ad campaigns to increase online sales”.

Many companies make a couple of missteps at this point by trying to skip to the end or doing things out of sequence. Here’s a simple breakdown of the questions you need to ask… and the order in which you ask them while evaluating your advertising model options.

The end of third-party tracking cookies is on the horizon, but it’s not as bad as you might think. Despite concerns from some advertisers that losing third-party cookies will make it impossible to deliver personalized advertising, there are already a number of effective solutions in the works to ensure that users can still enjoy relevant ads, without any privacy fears.

Let’s take a quick dive into why third-party tracking cookies are being retired, what that means for your advertising strategy, and why it’s actually a good thing for both customers and advertisers.

In this Media Review, you can find out more about Google updating the Privacy Sandbox timeline, a proposal on how to optimize FLEDGE’s performance by leveraging cloud resources, and a hypothesis around Apple building a DSP.

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.

Ask ten marketers whether you should run two retargeting vendors simultaneously and you'll get ten different answers. We think the data settles it—but we'll let you decide.

Core takeaway

Multiple retargeting means running two or more retargeting vendors simultaneously against the same pool of site visitors. Because each vendor uses different algorithms to evaluate user intent, they identify different high-value opportunities within the same audience. The result: more conversions, without proportionally increasing your budget. The biggest objections—overlap, bid inflation, added complexity—don't hold up under scrutiny. The data consistently favors a stack approach.