Digital first brands emerge as big advertisers for ICC World Cup 2019

brandequity | July 11, 2019

Cricket World Cup is the mecca for advertising. This year, we saw an interesting trend as several digital first brands came forward and locked deals with the broadcaster. Traditionally, the game has always belonged to FMCG, telecom, mobile handset, and consumer durable advertisers but this year, digital-first brands have occupied a strong ‘Share of Voice’ during the game. Some of the digital first brands that are running campaigns during the game on television are – Byju’s, Dream11, CarDekho, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Amazon Echo, Amazon Prime, Policybazaar, Paisabazaar, Pharmeasy, Swiggy, PhonePe, Uber, UberEats, Cars 24, and Netflix.

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Over the past few years there’s been the notion that third-party data for marketing personalization is going away. But an exclusive new study from Datonics is proving that an evolving technology landscape is ensuring that the essential strengths of third-party data will remain effective, and at enormous scale.

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Over the past few years there’s been the notion that third-party data for marketing personalization is going away. But an exclusive new study from Datonics is proving that an evolving technology landscape is ensuring that the essential strengths of third-party data will remain effective, and at enormous scale.

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Gamut and Waymark Partner to Bring AI-Powered CTV Ad Creation to Local Advertisers

Gamut | January 06, 2023

Gamut and Waymark have announced a partnership to expand next-generation local advertising services on a national scale. Gamut offers advertisers brand-safe access to premium connected TV (CTV) video ad inventory, while Waymark is an artificial intelligence start-up that automates video production. By combining Gamut's access to high-quality CTV video ad inventory with Waymark's AI-powered capabilities, this partnership will provide a cost-effective way for brands to produce and deliver engaging video ads tailored to their target audience. The two companies aim to remove barriers to local advertising through their combination of local CTV inventory and creative AI, which makes professional video ads easy, fast, and affordable to produce. With Gamut and Waymark's partnership, local businesses will now be able to quickly and affordably produce and distribute professional-quality video ads across a wide range of CTV platforms. “Together, Gamut and Waymark give content providers and advertisers everything they need to accomplish their mutual goals. Gamut has access to the inventory - and then taps into Waymark to offer that additional layer of video production at scale for local and regional ad partners with our AI-powered creative tools.” Alex Persky-Stern, CEO of Waymark The partnership aims to bring advanced, comprehensive support to local advertisers and meet the increasing demand for localized advertising in the TV industry, particularly in CTV. It will offer prospective small and medium-sized business advertisers the ability to buy local CTV ads, quickly produce creative ad messages, and measure impact in one place. Gamut and Waymark are hoping that their partnership will make local advertising easier and more affordable for businesses of all sizes, allowing them to reach a larger audience with their message. About Gamut Gamut, a multi-award-winning leader in local CTV, assists brands in connecting with interested streaming audiences. By utilizing its direct access to premium, brand-safe OTT inventory and cutting-edge advertising tools, marketers can use highly engaging and tailored ads to reach targeted local audiences on a national level. Gamut is dedicated to providing the highest level of service and expertise to ensure the best results for its clients and partners. Gamut has more than 20 years of experience in digital media. Gamut partners with CoxReps, an industry leader and sister company, to offer advertisers a comprehensive strategy for interacting with target markets.

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Applovin Releases Its Creative Trends Report 2023 of Mobile Ad Trends

AppLovin | February 03, 2023

One of the most popular mobile marketing and monetization platforms, AppLovin, has recently released its Creative Trends Report 2023, which lists the best performance-driven mobile ad trends for the year. This report will help mobile app developers and vertical marketers come up with creative ideas for their mobile ad campaigns. To prepare this report, AppLovin’s in-house creative agency, SparkLabs, collected data from more than 200 applications, 267 installations, 22.4 billion clicks, 52.3 billion impressions, and tens of thousands of creatives in 2022 and researched the variables and influencing ideas that generated the highest return on investment (ROI), click-through rate (CTR), investor relations (IR), and return on ad spend (ROAS). The analysis shows that customization of an environment, character, or item, dramatic story narratives, real-time feedback, and voiceover messaging encourage more engagement. CMO of AppLovin, Katie Jansen, said, "Our goal with this report is to provide marketers and developers insights and inspiration for achieving increased success for mobile ad campaigns. The report is packed with proven performance-driven ad concepts that have generated significant lift for their campaigns by capturing the majority of ad spend." She added, "Putting the best creative pieces together doesn’t always guarantee a win. To ensure that your ads are consistently high-performing, you need a combination of performance-driven analysis and continuous iteration and testing to find an optimal creative strategy for your app." (Source – Business Wire) About AppLovin Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, AppLovin provides business insights, marketing technologies, full-stack solutions, user acquisition, monetization, and measurement to resolve mission-critical functions. Through its analytics and performance data, it offers creative strategies, suggests variables, and identifies key points that will optimize gaming campaigns and advertising strategies. Since 2012, it has been assisting popular applications and game studios to prosper worldwide by offering solutions to increase average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU), ad impressions, valuable users, in-app purchases (IAP), and reach. Its products are AppDiscovery, MAX, AppLovin Exchange, SparkLabs, and Adjust.

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The Trade Desk Introduces Galileo to Activate Advertiser Data

The Trade Desk | January 09, 2023

The Trade Desk, a global pioneer in advertising technology, has introduced Galileo, a new approach for advertiser first-party data activation. Advertisers are seeking to activate their valuable customer data as securely as possible in order to optimize media buys across all digital media while precisely evaluating performance and business outcomes. Multiple major organizations invest years cultivating deep connections with their most loyal clients, gaining unique and essential insights about their target audiences. Galileo enables marketers to unlock this data in a privacy-conscious manner to discover new clients with comparable characteristics. In addition, Galileo is compatible with modern cross-channel identity solutions, such as Unified ID 2.0 (UID2), which have been adopted by the bulk of The Trade Desk's data and publishing partners. “We are at a tipping point for the open internet, The infrastructure of the internet is embracing new identity solutions built for today’s digital media consumption across different devices and apps, such as Unified ID 2.0. In doing so, they are creating the richest identity ecosystem we’ve ever experienced, and one that aims to put consumer privacy at the forefront. With Galileo, we will help the world’s major advertisers take advantage of this by unleashing the value of their most valuable customer data.” Samantha Jacobson, Chief Strategy Officer, The Trade Desk Galileo enables advertisers to enroll and activate their first-party data instantly. It encompasses: Seamless and direct onboarding interfaces with all major customer data platforms (CDPs), customer relationship management (CRM), and other data and clean room providers, enabling marketers to begin matching audiences with UID2 instantly Audience matching across all publishers, devices, platforms, and channels, including CTV, resulting in an actual omnichannel identity environment Objective measurement and reporting of advertising performance and identity matching About The Trade Desk The Trade Desk™ is a technological firm that entitles ad buyers. Ad buyers may manage, create, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices using its self-service, cloud-based platform. Integrations with major data, inventory, and publisher partners offer maximum reach and decision-making capabilities, while enterprise APIs allow for customized development on top of the platform.

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