ADVERTISER PLATFORMS
Canopy Management | September 08, 2021
Increasingly, Amazon sellers are choosing CANOPY Management as their preferred provider when leveraging the Amazon DSP (Demand Side Platform) ad buys, the company reported today. Some partners say they would rather buy the ads through CANOPY, the Industry Leading full-service Amazon agency that helps brands scale their business and gain market share, than through Amazon itself.
Amazon DSP is a Demand-Side Platform that enables brands and agencies to programmatically buy display, video and audio ads both on and off Amazon. Brands who make DSP buys through Amazon have to spend at least $35,000 per month, whereas CANOPY requires no minimum spend. Amazon DSP ads compose the third and final step in the CANOPY Accelerator Program (CAP). The average Canopy Management partner grew sales 212% for the two most recent Prime Days, while their Advertising Cost of Sales grew only 7 points.
“With CANOPY’s team managing PPC and DSP, our brand has seen rapid growth,” said Ely’s & Co. Founder Sara Neuhaus. “Our sales are up 60% compared to last year.”
Worth noting: Amazon DSP doesn’t exist exclusively for Amazon Sellers. Non-endemic brands can leverage the reach and targeting capabilities of DSP and tap into its reliable 1st party data and exclusive inventory to drive traffic to their offerings and website. With lower minimums, Sellers and Brands have a clear advantage when it comes to choosing Canopy by launching and testing new campaigns.
Not only is Amazon offering programmatic buys off-platform, it also provides access to video streaming ads via OTT, or Over-the-Top, enabling marketers to engage audiences across Amazon-affiliated sites like IMDb.com and Twitch, devices like Fire TV, and across the web. OTT gives small Amazon sellers and large brands access to a new, rapidly growing frontier in TV advertising.
One-third of American adults use streaming services. In May, Amazon reported that its ad-supported streaming video content — which includes IMDB-TV, Twitch, and NFL Thursday — reaches 120 million people per month, a sixfold increase from the 20 million monthly users it reached in January 2020, less than a year and a half earlier. Amazon DSP advertisers can easily reach audiences of sports fans, Prime Video viewers and relevant In-Market segments.
“Amazon DSP already offers the second-highest Return on Ad Spend after Google,” said CANOPY Management CEO and Cofounder Brian Burt. “As Google & Facebook phase out the third-party tracking cookie, Amazon DSP offers brands unparalleled power to reach their target audiences. We’re pleased that our team’s hard work results in great success for our partners, and we’ll continue to work for the strongest possible results.”
About CANOPY Management
A full-service Amazon marketing agency, CANOPY Management is the driving force behind many of the most successful brands on Amazon. CEO and Cofounder Brian Burt is leading the company’s growth and expansion into new markets. CANOPY was recognized as a ‘Great Place to Work’ in March 2021.
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DISPLAY ADVERTISING
National Advertising Division | December 23, 2021
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs has referred advertising claims made by PLx Pharma, Inc. to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for review and possible enforcement action after the company declined to accept NAD's recommendations to modify certain claims for its Vazalore immediate-release aspirin product.
In Case #6912, NAD recommended, among other things, that PLx Pharma:
Modify the claim "Vazalore has up to 5X greater absorption than enteric coated aspirin" to avoid conveying the message that the claimed difference in absorption related to superior clinical efficacy and disclose that the reported results were limited to diabetic, obese subjects.
Discontinue the claim "The Miracles of Aspirin Fully Realized."
Discontinue the claim "Better gastrointestinal safety" (or modify it to convey the limited message that Vazalore causes fewer erosions and ulcers in the first week of treatment than traditional immediate release aspirin).
In PLx Pharma's advertiser's statement it agreed to comply with NAD's recommendations and incorporate them in updates to its company website and development of Vazalore's marketing campaign.
Thereafter, the challenger, Bayer Healthcare LLC, asked NAD to open a compliance inquiry based on concerns about advertising on PLx Pharma's website directed to healthcare professionals (HCP) and a television commercial. In a compliance matter, NAD must determine whether the advertiser has made a bona fide, good-faith effort to comply with NAD's recommendations.
Although NAD determined that some new advertising claims were not appropriate for review in a compliance matter because they were not previously reviewed by NAD or were monadic performance claims, a few others were substantially similar to claims challenged in the underlying proceeding. Therefore, NAD considered whether these new claims fully comply with NAD's recommendations.
Television Commercial
Regarding PLx Pharma's television commercial, NAD determined that, in context, the claim "Aspirin Made Amazing" was substantially similar to the claim NAD recommended be discontinued in the underlying challenge, "The Miracles of Aspirin Fully Realized." NAD noted that both phrases reasonably convey the unsupported message that Vazalore provides superior cardiovascular benefits or gastrointestinal safety. Therefore, NAD recommended that Vazalore modify its commercial to avoid conveying this message.
Consistent with the underlying decision, NAD noted that nothing precludes PLx Pharma from:
Making a properly limited claim based on the clinical study results that the Vazalore 325 mg aspirin causes fewer erosions and ulcers in the first week of treatment than traditional immediate release aspirin or from touting that it provides a new delivery system; or
Using the "Aspirin Made Amazing" tagline to highlight truthful attributes that make Vazalore different from other products provided, however, the context does not overstate its performance benefits.
Advertising Directed to Healthcare Professionals
NAD noted that it appreciates PLx Pharma's efforts to create a gated site for HCPs separate from its consumer-facing website.
In the underlying decision, NAD recommended that the advertiser modify the claim "Vazalore has up to 5x greater absorption than enteric coated aspirin" to avoid conveying the message that the claimed difference in absorption related to superior clinical efficacy and disclose that the reported results were from a limited study population, diabetic, obese subjects. In the compliance inquiry, NAD considered whether the advertiser's disclosure of the limitations of its clinical study, as referenced on its HCP-facing website, namely the title of the study, its characteristics including the study's population, and finally the results, complied with this recommendation. NAD determined that it did not and, therefore, recommended that the disclosure concerning the 5x absorption claim clearly and conspicuously reference the limited population of the clinical study.
Further, NAD determined that claims on PLx Pharma's "Features and Benefits" page convey a comparative safety message as to competing traditional release aspirin. Consequently, NAD recommended that the advertiser modify this advertising to make clear the limitations of its study (i.e., that Vazalore causes fewer erosions and ulcers in the first week of treatment than traditional immediate release aspirin).
While the advertiser made modifications following the original challenge, they have declined to make additional modifications as NAD requested. As a result, NAD is referring this matter to the appropriate government agencies for review and possible law enforcement action.
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About BBB National Programs:
BBB National Programs is where businesses turn to enhance consumer trust and consumers are heard. The non-profit organization creates a fairer playing field for businesses and a better experience for consumers through the development and delivery of effective third-party accountability and dispute resolution programs. Embracing its role as an independent organization since the restructuring of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in June 2019, BBB National Programs today oversees more than a dozen leading national industry self-regulation programs, and continues to evolve its work and grow its impact by providing business guidance and fostering best practices in arenas such as advertising, child-directed marketing, and privacy. To learn more, visit bbbprograms.org.
About the National Advertising Division:
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs provides independent self-regulation and dispute resolution services, guiding the truthfulness of advertising across the U.S. NAD reviews national advertising in all media and its decisions set consistent standards for advertising truth and accuracy, delivering meaningful protection to consumers and leveling the playing field for business.
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ADVERTISER PLATFORMS
GumGum | March 04, 2022
GumGum, a contextual-first advertising technology company, introduces The Mindset Matrix, a framework for the future of digital advertising outlining how advertisers can deliver engaging and effective ad campaigns, in current and emerging environments, without the need of the cookie or personal data.
The industry is moving into a new era, one that requires a shift in how advertisers think about reaching and connecting with people in digital environments. Rather than base their targeting efforts off past behaviors - the future of digital advertising will rely on meeting people in the moment and aligning advertisements with someone’s present frame of mind.
“The truth is we don’t need to know who you are in order to deliver relevant and effective advertising. As human beings we naturally move in micro-moments, floating from one topic to another. We believe that digital advertising should be able to move with us and be something, helps us find what we need or didn’t even know we needed, and that adds to the overall experience. The Mindset Matrix is a framework that helps advertisers make that shift, while being just as effective and doesn’t require the use of personal data,” said GumGum’s, CEO, Phil Schraeder.
The Mindset Matrix framework, defined as the environment in which ad effectiveness develops, is made up of three components:
True Contextual Understanding: Uses all the signals within an environment (text, image, video, audio) to understand the entire digital environment, allowing advertisers the ability to put the right ad in the right context (place, time, near a related topic etc.), and increases ad relevance with more precision.
Smart Ad Creatives: Creative can be smarter now with the support of contextual and attention. These smart ads create a cohesive experience between content and advertisement that enhance the audience's experience rather than detract from it.
Attention Measurement & Optimization: Measuring the actual attention an ad drives is a human centric, quality metric that captures a person’s relative interest (or not) in that ad at that moment. As such, it’s a remarkable feedback loop on ad relevance and proof that we’ve found the match between the right creative and the right context.
“Each of these components are individually important aspects of any ad campaign but when tied together have the opportunity to influence and inform the other, creating a powerful understanding of a person's frame of mind in each unique digital environment. This model allows advertisers to meet people when they are in an active frame of mind — the right headspace to pay attention and take action – and do so in a way that is cookieless, identity free and future proof,” Schraeder goes on to say.
Through robust company development and strategic acquisitions, GumGum has demonstrated a clear understanding of the importance of the Mindset Matrix in advertising. The Mindset Matrix should be used as a foundation by advertisers as a marketing playbook of the future.
About GumGum
GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. Our proprietary contextual intelligence engine uses computer vision and natural language processing technologies to scan text, images and videos when evaluating digital content. Combining our contextual advertising intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, GumGum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance.
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