ADVERTISER PLATFORMS
Teads, IMPACT+ | October 20, 2022
IMPACT+, the solution to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of digital advertising, and Teads, the global media platform, announce a global partnership with the goal of measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of every online advertising campaign running through the Teads platform.
IMPACT+, the leading third-party carbon footprint measurement provider, can bring concrete recommendations to advertisers globally. Its core objective is to allow digital advertising industry players to combine environmental and marketing KPIs to rapidly act on reducing GHG emissions without degrading media KPIs.
IMPACT+’s solution, launched in France in 2020, is now available in 32 countries in North & Latin Americas, Europe, APAC and MENA, to create a standard of carbon footprint measurement and reduction across every player in the industry, and to better support brands, agencies and adtech platforms in their CSR approach.
Teads and IMPACT+ began their work together in France in 2021 and, after multiple successful campaigns being measured with clients and agencies, Teads’ partners around the world can now leverage the partnership to learn about electricity consumption & greenhouse gas emissions of their campaigns, and identify levers to reduce these emissions. By integrating within the Teads platform globally, the worlds’ leading advertisers will gain actionable information about their campaigns.
Teads’ platform is committed to deliver sustainable business outcomes for brands, by aligning these metrics with Carbon KPIs, it will increase efficiencies and effectiveness for Teads’ clients, continuing Teads’ work to help their partners advertise more sustainably. Currently, Teads is working with over 50 brands that have begun to use IMPACT+ to measure their campaigns’ carbon footprint.
In APAC, having been given exclusive access to the platform in September, Omnicom Media Group have been testing with over 10 clients and leaning into learnings already. Paul Shepherd, chief investment officer and president of Annalect at OMG APAC says “As brands increasingly focus on reducing their scope 3 emissions, our industry needs to supply solutions that our clients can orchestrate towards their sustainability efforts. At OMG, we collaborate with partners to develop systems and processes to make sustainability accessible for our teams. This supports our drive in ensuring planning and optimising media campaigns for reduced carbon emissions becomes market practice.”
Leading the digital advertising industry to reduce its global GHG emissions is an emergency.
The environmental impact of online advertising is a new and complicated topic. Digital advertising is still behind many sectors when it comes to reducing GHG Emissions and the fight against global climate change.
Many brands and agencies, and their adtech providers need deeper, globally consistent, insights about the environmental impacts of their digital ad campaigns, to adapt their digital strategy and act to reduce their impact. But most of them don’t know how to proceed.
At the start of 2021, 90% of French digital advertising professionals were not yet measuring the carbon impact of their activity and 63% of them didn’t even know how to proceed*. Consumers are also really concerned about this problem: 81% of millennials in APAC perceive experiencing ads as detrimental for the environment, and 84% of global consumers said they could be more likely to buy form a company which practices sustainable media advertising**.
Remi Cackel, Chief Product Officer at Teads said: We are very excited to offer this solution to all of our clients globally. Doing so is an enormous step for the digital advertising industry. By deepening our understanding of how digital advertising impacts the environment, we can all ensure that business growth and environmental responsibility can go hand in hand, helping brands genuinely interrogate and then reduce their carbon footprint. By aligning with IMPACT+ we are proud to be offering long term, robust solutions to the environmental challenges that this industry is facing.”
Vincent Villaret, CEO at IMPACT+ says: “We are really thrilled to extend our partnership with Teads to make brands and agencies able to measure and reduce their advertising impact globally.
Vincent Villaret, CEO at IMPACT+ says: “We are really thrilled to extend our partnership with Teads to make brands and agencies able to measure and reduce their advertising impact globally.
Thanks to Teads’ dedicated team to the problem of environmental impact of advertising technologies, and the global scale on responsible advertising environments, this collaboration represents a huge opportunity to show and proof a path to a more sustainable digital advertising industry.
About Teads
Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies.
For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers and content providers. Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach billions of unique monthly users in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions.
Teads partners with the leading marketers, agencies and publishers through a team of 1,200+ people in 50 offices across more than 30 countries.
About IMPACT+
IMPACT+ is a sustaintech solution enabling digital advertising players (brands, agencies, adtechs and adnetworks) to evaluate and reduce their environmental impact.
IMPACT+ builds new performances indicators and tools to help this ecosystem to use GHG emissions and electricity consumption to inform their digital advertising strategy. Since 2020, IMPACT+ supports brands (such as L’Oréal, Nestlé, Procter&Gamble and their agencies) in their process for a more sustainable media buying ; adnetworks and adtechs are equipped with IMPACT+ environment impact evaluation solutions, integrated seamlessly to ad delivery systems.
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AD NETWORKS
Looka Inc. | October 07, 2022
Looka Inc., a leading AI-powered design platform further establishes its online advertising strategy through multi-media ads with Microsoft Advertising. Looka users currently face a significant challenge of building awareness among targeted audiences – and with the value of search advertising continuing to grow, multimedia ads can help a brand communicate its value, amplify product discovery, inspire action, and build brand loyalty through rich ad format.
Microsoft introduced multimedia ads in 2021 – a responsive ad format to effectively combine headlines, descriptions, and images, by delivering attention-grabbing large visual ads.
“For a logo design and branding company like Looka — where visuals are a key selling point — Multimedia Ads from Microsoft Advertising have proven to be an effective addition to our acquisition portfolio,” said Matthew Sison, Growth Manager, Looka. “Not only do they take up more real estate in the search results page, which allows us to showcase our customers' beautiful logos, but they drive fantastic business results.”
The impact of this strategic partnership has been significant – after adopting the visually attention-grabbing Multimedia Ads, Looka has seen a 200% increase in return on ad spend and the ads now account for 25% of revenue generated by Looka’s customer acquisition campaigns.
"It's been exciting to partner with Looka," Says Vi Nguyen, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft Multimedia Ads (MMA)
"It's been exciting to partner with Looka," Says Vi Nguyen, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft Multimedia Ads (MMA), “Through our partnership, Multimedia ads have helped Looka stand out and get noticed allowing them to enrich their brand storytelling.”
Since its inception in 2016, Looka has generated over 200 million logos for its users and has since built a business name generator, print shop, website builder, domain registrar, and a complete marketing stack: Brand Kit. Looka’s Brand Kit subscribers can now get $250 in multimedia ad credits when brands spend $50.
Learn more on how you can design a custom logo and market your business: Looka: How it Works.
About Looka Inc.
Looka is an AI-powered logo maker that provides business owners with a quick and affordable way to create a beautiful brand. Since launching as Logojoy in 2016, the company has served over nine and a half million people in 188 countries. Looka provides businesses with logos, social media assets, business card designs, and websites. Learn more at www.looka.com.
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Teads, IMPACT+ | September 29, 2022
Teads, the global media platform, announces a partnership with IMPACT+, with the purpose of measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of online advertising campaigns run through its platform. This announcement follows a series of tests with brands such as Renault, LaPoste, and Hello bank! at the French Ministry of Justice in France testing the carbon footprint of their advertising campaigns.
The solution has now been introduced across APAC and ANZ exclusively to OMG group and its clients. The goal of this initiative is to create a standard of carbon footprint measurement across Teads’ campaigns, to better support brands and agencies in their CSR approach.
Currently, Teads globally has over 50+ brands that have begun the use of IMPACT+ to measure their campaigns’ carbon footprint. This measurement capability has also gone live with OMG’s top 10 clients in APAC.
Measuring the carbon footprint, a strategic challenge
The environmental impact of online advertising is a young, and complicated topic.
IMPACT+ is the leading third-party measurement provider, who can estimate the carbon footprint of digital communications and bring concrete recommendations on how to set up an environmental KPI. Teads’ new partnership with IMPACT+ allows advertisers to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions of their Teads’ campaigns.
Leveraging this measurement, brands will now have the ability to minimise the power consumption of each impression served as well as reduce the electricity impact of each media objective, with Teads’ continued investment toward minimising the amount of impressions required to reach the same objective. IMPACT+ currently provides a calculation to report on GHG emissions at the campaign level, which includes creative delivery electricity consumption and the associated greenhouse gas emissions depending on where the delivery took place, as well as the end-user device lifecycle GHG emissions.
Concretely, the considered perimeter implies the necessary electrical consumption to the campaign delivery and the greenhouse gas emissions induced by this consumption. This first step allows then to analyse the campaign parameters impact from the point of view of the equipment’s usage (data centre, network, and devices) that are necessary to the delivery and to recommend optimisation levers. The actual calculation is based on the required energy for hosting advertising creatives, transporting on the network, and using the user’s device displaying these ads.
This approach is part of Teads’ continued ambitions to evolve its platform and maintain its position as a sustainable business. The series of tests will open doors to new thoughts aiming to use this carbon metrics along with traditional media KPIs.
Teads’ ambition in this space is to standardise carbon footprint measurement within the platform and therefore lead the digital marketing industry where reducing the carbon footprint of a campaign, without reducing its effectiveness, is the ultimate goal. The methods in place are new and keen to evolve to consider a larger perimeter, integrating other elements involved in the delivery like use or data, programmatic or third-party integrations for example or also other environmental impacts, beyond carbon emissions. For this reason, the ongoing procedures for the formalisation of an industrywide reference framework are welcome to collectively progress in the subject. The goal is to understand ultimately how to minimise the carbon footprint without compromising media performances and avoid a bounce back effect.
Paul Shepherd, chief investment officer and president of Annalect at OMG APAC says “As brands increasingly focus on reducing their scope 3 emissions, our industry needs to supply solutions that our clients can orchestrate towards their sustainability efforts."
Paul Shepherd, chief investment officer and president of Annalect at OMG APAC says “As brands increasingly focus on reducing their scope 3 emissions, our industry needs to supply solutions that our clients can orchestrate towards their sustainability efforts. At OMG, we collaborate with partners to develop systems and processes to make sustainability accessible for our teams. This supports our drive in ensuring planning and optimising media campaigns for reduced carbon emissions becomes market practice.”
Emmanuel Fischmeister, VP business development at Teads says “We are extremely excited to launch this firsts-of-its-kind partnership with OMG. Having a better understanding of the emissions is only the beginning of the journey, beyond measurement: our goal is to reduce and optimise these emissions. As a sustainable media platform, we are looking to do our part for future proofing the media industry”
About Teads
Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, end-to-end technology platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies. For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers. Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach 1.9 billion unique monthly users* in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions.
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