'We’ll start to see marketers tap intelligent tools to target consumers without the need for personal identifiers' says LoopMe's Sarah Rew

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Sarah Rew, Senior Director, Global Marketing at LoopMe elaborates on the importance of measuring campaign performance, LoopMe's innovative use of AI and ML and how high technologies are changing the AdTech marketplace in her latest interview with Media 7.

Combined with the data insights gathered through machine learning, we are able to identify appropriate audiences, as well as offer real-time campaign insights

MEDIA 7: Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would love to learn a bit more about you. Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?
SARAH REW:
Thank you for having me! My interest in PR and marketing was actually sparked by one of my university professors. While reading Classical Civilisation and Psychology at the University of Manchester, my lecturer suggested that PR could be a good fit for me, which prompted me to attend an “Institute for Public Relations” day to learn more about the industry. The emphasis on storytelling really excited me and I was keen to help shape a brand’s identity through the power of communication. After completing two work experience placements in financial PR, I went travelling for a year, visiting Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands, Tahiti, Los Angeles and San Francisco. This was a formative experience, teaching me independence and resilience, which I have taken with me throughout my career. When I returned to the UK, I started working at VisitBritain in the Strategic Communications department, helping to organize product familiarization trips for trade buyers and journalists. I’ve since worked for Toluna, YuMe, and Flashtalking, then I joined LoopMe as International Marketing Director in 2019, before being promoted to Senior Director, Global Marketing. Now, I manage the UK marketing team, deliver global marketing plans, and create LoopMe’s insights and research reports.

M7: Recently, Mayfair Equity Partners announced their plan to acquire a majority stake in LoopMe. What major changes will this deal bring to the table for your clients and customers?
SR:
We’re excited to have the support of Mayfair and the opportunities that it brings. Not only will it bolster LoopMe’s ability to develop innovative new products, but it will also help accelerate our growth in core markets, such as the US and EMEA. In addition, we will be expanding further internationally, particularly within the APAC region.

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While measuring campaign performance will be just as important, not many companies have succeeded in finding efficient and dynamic measurement tools

M7: LoopMe has transformed the mobile advertising sector through the innovative use of AI and ML. What distinguishes your products in today's consumer experience-driven industry?
SR:
One of LoopMe’s major selling points is our use of artificial intelligence, allowing businesses to optimize their campaigns in real-time and deliver relevant ads to consumers. This also means that businesses can base their marketing decisions on empirical data rather than outdated proxy metrics. LoopMe’s AI creates a predictive model of consumers that are more likely to take an action -- this is based on hundreds of attributes. We then serve ads to those consumers which are most likely to convert, a decision that’s made in real-time on each ad request. LoopMe conducts regular surveys and research to determine consumers’ attitudes, behaviours and opinions. This gives us an edge in terms of relevancy because, combined with the data insights gathered through machine learning, we are able to identify appropriate audiences, as well as offer real-time campaign insights to boost our clients’ measurable uplift.


 

M7: What are your predictions on AI-led technologies changing the AdTech marketplace in the coming years?
SR:
The digital marketing space has always been fast-moving, but it’s been especially turbulent over the past few years with ongoing privacy changes and the race to find cookieless targeting solutions. While measuring campaign performance will be just as important, not many companies have succeeded in finding efficient and dynamic measurement tools. Going forward, this will become a bigger priority in the ad tech world and marketers will move away from proxy metrics, such as clicks, in favour of AI-based solutions. With privacy regulations more stringent than ever, we’ll also start to see marketers tap intelligent tools to target consumers without the need for personal identifiers. For example, predictive modelling maximizes privacy-compliant first-party data by pairing it with third-party insights. This allows advertisers to identify relevant audiences based on their behaviours and therefore tailor ads and recommendations to the right audiences at the right time.

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The industry is so wide-ranging that it’s important to explore different specialisms until you find the one you love

M7: What is your approach to market research, both customer and competitor focused, in the data-driven advertising industry?
SR:
It’s always been fundamentally important to us to conduct our own in-flight research. This allows us to identify key consumer trends and help clients better inform their advertising strategies. Data-driven, real-time consumer insights are a part of our day to day strategy and our PurchaseLoop product helps us unlock these. PurchaseLoop uses artificial intelligence to optimize media investments against marketing goals -- from impacting how people feel about a brand to what they do after they have been exposed to their ad. We also keep an eye on industry research updates, such as the UK’s IPA Bellwether Report, which helps benchmark how the industry is performing — and is predicted to perform – over the coming months.

M7: What is your advice to young professionals trying to pave their way into Marketing?
SR:
It’s not always about having the most experience, although securing some mentorship in your early years will give you a strong foundation. If you’re driven and enthusiastic, you can quickly learn the ropes, and, most importantly, if you believe in yourself you can achieve anything. The industry is so wide-ranging that it’s important to explore different specialisms until you find the one you love. This will help you consolidate your wider industry knowledge and enter new areas with a fresh perspective. I have personally moved through different areas of marketing before settling in ad tech and it has given me many transferable skills. Networking events are also invaluable ways to learn more about the industry and make important connections that could influence your future career.

ABOUT LOOPME

LoopMe, a leading outcomes-based platform closes the loop on digital advertising. By leveraging AI to optimize media delivery in real-time, they drive measurable uplift for business outcomes and more effective advertising across online and offline marketing goals, including brand lift, purchase intent, consideration, foot traffic and sales.

LoopMe was founded in 2012 with the mission to create better consumer experiences through innovation, powered by data, to bring people and brands together. The Company is headquartered in the UK, with global offices across New York, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Singapore, Dnipro (Ukraine), Japan and Hong Kong.

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PR Newswire | January 05, 2024

TripleLift, the ad tech platform elevating digital advertising across every screen, and Reset Digital, a first-of-its-kind platform that gives brands and publishers broader and deeper audience reach across all communities, today announced a partnership to significantly expand diverse spend and representation across the programmatic ecosystem. Together, the companies are offering advertisers multiple pathways to ensure a greater portion of their digital budgets can be directed toward diverse-owned media companies. The partnership allows advertisers to buy quality inventory from minority-owned businesses throughout the programmatic ecosystem: TripleLift (a SSP) and Reset Digital (a DSP), and TripleLift's UNREP (Underrepresented Voices) deal package of impressions directing dollars straight to minority-owned media publishers. This way of buying media is available immediately across display, online video, and CTV and will be launched with Native this year. In 2023, an ANA survey of certified diverse suppliers found that while a majority say that interest from the media and advertising community in supporting diverse suppliers has increased in the past year, there is still a gap between intent to spend and actual spend. TripleLift and Reset Digital are helping all stakeholders bridge the gap quickly by making it easy for them to access diverse-owned media at scale. "This partnership allows advertisers to achieve their diverse spend goals with an end-to-end solution that is more aligned with their corporate supplier diversity reporting requirements," said Thomas Brandon, VP of Agency Strategy and Economic Inclusion at TripleLift. "Importantly, it allows them to use their media spend to impact the economic growth of the diverse communities they serve." Over the last 12 years, TripleLift has cultivated a vast inventory of publishers that includes access to 220 billion monthly impression avails across diverse-owned sites as part of its UNREP curated packages. These packages include inventory among publishers owned by Women, LGBTQ+, Blacks, Latinx, and Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) and can be accessed as a whole or individually depending on client goals. "TripleLift has been on our radar for a partnership for some time," said Charles Cantu, founder and CEO of Reset Digital. "Specifically, our marketplace combined with their offerings like UNREP now provides a single pathway to diverse spending across the programmatic ecosystem – a solution we are excited to finally have in the market together." Reset Digital, the industry's only verified, black-owned and operated DSP, has been long recognized for its neuroprogrammatic capabilities, which allow advertisers to engage audiences based on what they desire versus what they look like, its ability to help connect brands and multicultural audiences around the world and its partnerships with brands like P&G, GM and Verizon, as well as the leading global media and creative agencies. In 2023, Reset Digital launched a new programmatic marketplace for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade organization that represents more than 200 Black-owned newspapers in the U.S. along with the NABOB (National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters); these entities created a path to connect large advertisers with publications that previously did not have the capabilities to run national programmatic advertising campaigns. This partnership stands to benefit any of the buy-side clients working with these companies. "TripleLift and Reset Digital have both been great partners to Horizon Media for many years," said Karina Dobarro, EVP, Multicultural at Horizon Media. "We've long worked with DSPs and SSPs to better direct investment to diverse-owned media, but partnerships like this one make it a much more seamless endeavor." TripleLift works with 80%+ of comScore 200 ad-supported publishers and delivers over 2 trillion monthly global impressions across North America, EMEA, LATAM, APAC, and MENA. To learn more about this partnership, please visit www.triplelift.com. About TripleLift We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data, and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display, and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance. We are part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio. As an NMSDC certified minority-owned business, we qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com. About Reset Digital Reset Digital's Neuroprogrammatic™ advertising platform is a first-of-its-kind programmatic platform that allows brands to engage omnichannel audiences based on what motivates them as people versus targets and gives brands and publishers much broader and deeper audience reach across all communities, including underrepresented audiences they could not reach in the past. The results are radically better outcomes. Reset Digital's partners include the world's top brands, agencies, and publishers, including P&G, GM, Verizon, Dentsu, IPG, Publicis, GroupM, NABOB, Newsweek, NNPA, and others.

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