Blog about Digital Advertising & Marketing Technology

Digital media moves quickly, and consumer behavior moves with it. The businesses keeping pace are increasingly the ones working with an AdTech company, a specialist vendor that builds the technology behind modern online advertising. In this article, we look at what these companies actually do, how artificial intelligence and in particular, Deep Learning have reshaped the field, and what brands should consider when choosing a partner.

Sports fandom is, and always has been, about unswerving loyalty, passion, and the act of turning up, again and again. This will never change, but today’s increasingly fragmented media environment is bringing significant changes in how fans engage, share, and spend. Any brand looking to capitalize on this new reality will need to adopt innovative approaches that resonate more deeply with fans.

Legacy Machine Learning solutions have much to lose when clients learn an inconvenient truth: using two different-in-kind retargeters leads to demonstrably superior performance. For this reason, legacy vendors tout a “one retargeter” approach to programmatic advertising that doesn’t align with the lived reality of marketers. The one retargeter strategy is driven by a vendor’s internal business concerns, not by what’s best for their clients. If a single-vendor retargeting strategy were so superior and so powerful, why would a proper retargeting stack be such a threat to legacy Machine Learning vendors?

I’m going to look at, and then disprove, four myths around the choice of a single- or multiple-vendor retargeting strategy. And I’ll explain why sophisticated markers build programmatic marketing stacks.

There are more options online for consumers to choose from than ever before. But rather than this manifesting as any kind of “paralysis of choice” or panicked rush to purchase, consumer journeys are actually becoming longer and more researched. More people are starting with careful consideration, comparison, and in-depth research of prices and brands. They make more site visits and spend more time weighing their options before transacting, creating a “messy middle” between consideration and purchase that has significant implications for merchants.

The calendar year is full of marketing events that brands can ride like waves to elevate results. But the increased conversions that retail holidays inspire are more likely to be seen as largely expected rather than genuinely additive to growth. So, how can your brand’s digital marketing go from “expectations met” to “expectations exceeded” and leverage promo periods to a greater extent than competitors?

One way to do this is by outplanning your rivals. Because planning and preparedness is as important as having the right technology in place.

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