SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING
SGG Media, StartEngine.com | September 02, 2022
SGG Media - A Division of Sports Gambling Guides, Inc., the up-and-coming sports advertising agency, is continuing its plans to turn the advertising world on its head by opening up a $5 million round of private funding on leading US investment platform, StartEngine.com via the SGG Media portal: https://www.startengine.com/sports-gambling-guides
Like so many things the company has done during its short but meteoric rise to prominence over the past few years, turning to one of America’s largest crowd funding sites to generate further investment in SGG Media is something of an industry first. It will give private investors the unique opportunity to buy into a sports gambling-related business from just $250 while helping SGG Media continue to grow.
With StartEngine.com having already helped other start-up businesses raise $50 million in private funding, SGG Media is confident of launching their $5 million offering on the platform – with this amount further complimenting the $3.25 million the group has already funded in the past 15 months.
The fact that SGG Media has ripped up the traditional funding playbook and made investment in the company possible for private individuals online should perhaps not come as a huge surprise to anyone in the sports marketing industry – after all, this is a young company that has always done things differently.
Having recognized the cost-prohibitive and largely unquantifiable nature of conventional TV, print and radio advertising, SGG Media set out on a mission to disrupt the sports affiliate marketing space by instead harnessing the power of social media to reach a whole new audience of modern sports fans.
From this simple but pioneering starting position, SGG Media has gone on to amass a vast network of over 1,300 “micro-sports influencers” – knowledgeable and engaged content creators who can deliver laser-focused messaging and promotions to a combined audience of 25 million avid sports fans.
The group has since partnered with some of the largest companies in the sports betting and daily fantasy sports industries, with these organizations all recognizing the importance of connecting with a new breed of fan that’s consuming sports info via Twitter, Instagram, and other forms of social media.
Troy Paul, Co-Founder and President of SGG Media, said: “We’re very excited to be taking investment in SGG Media online on the hugely successful crowdfunding platform, StartEngine.com. It’s perhaps the first opportunity for private investors to show support for a sports gambling-related company.
Troy Paul, Co-Founder and President of SGG Media, said: “We’re very excited to be taking investment in SGG Media online on the hugely successful crowdfunding platform, StartEngine.com. It’s perhaps the first opportunity for private investors to show support for a sports gambling-related company.
“To put it plainly, if you believe in the future of online sports gambling and the future of social media advertising, this is a great opportunity to get involved with our company from as little as $250. We strongly believe the crowdfunding round will prove to be another major success for SGG Media and will enable the group to continue its trailblazing work at the cross section of sports and social media.”
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ADVERTISER PLATFORMS
Adform | September 27, 2022
Adform, the only global, independent, and fully integrated advertising platform built for modern marketing, announce a significant expansion of its UK team with the appointment of four new team members: Julien Sneeuwjagt – enterprise sales director; Allan Sheriff – global account director; David Lionel – sales account development manager; and Milica Lukic – account director.
Adform’s London office has grown to a team of 30 since it was established nearly 10 years ago and mirrors the growth the company is experiencing globally.
Established in Denmark in 2002, Adform now has offices in Europe, Africa, North America, Asia, and Australia, and a team of more than 650 employees, serving more than 2,000 clients and supporting over 25,000 accounts. Adform’s solutions include the full spectrum of ad tech capabilities: demand side platform, supply side platform, ad server and data management platform for advertisers and publishers, and a world-leading, award-winning identity solution.
Its Adform Flow platform enables seamless management of the whole advertising campaign lifecycle across all digital channels, enabling frictionless cross-media activation and giving clients unprecedented control. A leader in the identity space, its ID Fusion solution enables marketers to deploy campaigns based on first-party IDs alongside third-party cookies, enabling marketers to unlock scale with a cookie-less, ID-agnostic approach. Adform helps both advertisers and publishers thrive and evolve towards an advertising ecosystem that is transparent, open and privacy-centric.
In the United Kingdom, Adform works with key global, and independent, advertising agencies as well as direct accounts, serving over 100 clients / accounts in sectors ranging from telecom, financial services, automotive, and retail to FMCG, sports or entertainment.
Julien Sneeuwjagt joins as enterprise sales director and will lead Adform’s UK conversations with new clients in retail and e-commerce, food and beverage, and financial services, as well as independent agencies. He has a 20-year career in sales and marketing, primarily in financial services and ad tech.
Global account director Allan Sheriff will be responsible for Adform’s largest accounts and brings eleven years of programmatic experience with independent trading desks, agency, and client-side.
David Lionel, joining as sales account development manager, will nurture new business and new clients, supporting agencies and advertisers, and helping them engage confidently with Adform’s full stack of ad tech solutions.
Milica Lukic joins as an account director, responsible for Adform’s existing clients, focusing on helping them grow their businesses by leveraging Adform’s platform and products.
Phil Acton, country manager of Adform in the United Kingdom, said, “I’m delighted to welcome our new recruits to Adform. Our growth is being dictated by our clients’ needs, and strengthening our UK team means we are even better placed to deliver seamless ad tech solutions to advertisers and publishers, as the industry experiences major transformation to a more open, fair, and privacy-centric internet.”
Phil Acton, country manager of Adform in the United Kingdom, said, “I’m delighted to welcome our new recruits to Adform. Our growth is being dictated by our clients’ needs, and strengthening our UK team means we are even better placed to deliver seamless ad tech solutions to advertisers and publishers, as the industry experiences major transformation to a more open, fair, and privacy-centric internet.”
About Adform
Adform is the only global, independent and fully integrated advertising platform built for modern marketing. Its unique enterprise technology – Adform FLOW – harnesses superior user experience and a scalable, modular and open architecture, to enable seamless management of the whole campaign lifecycle. It provides clients with enhanced control and transparency across their advertising operations, including ownership of all data from their campaigns. Since 2002, Adform has developed technology to enhance human/machine collaboration and deliver augmented intelligence, thereby amplifying business results for its clients around the world.
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Uber | October 20, 2022
Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) has formally launched its advertising division and unveiled Uber Journey Ads, an engaging way for brands to connect with consumers throughout the entire ride process. Journey Ads are the latest initiative from a dedicated team formed at Uber this year under advertising veteran Dr. Mark Grether, previously with Amazon Advertising, CEO of Sizmek, and Co-Founder of Xaxis. Leveraging Uber’s first-party data and insights across its mobility and delivery businesses presents the world’s biggest companies with compelling new surfaces and closed-loop attribution to reach Uber’s audience of 122 million monthly active users.
With the addition of Journey Ads, Uber has created an engaging model that enables brands to share strategic campaigns across Uber’s mobility and delivery businesses, while connecting with consumers in brand-safe and captivating ways. Journey Ads place relevant brand content and offers in front of purchase-minded audiences as they transact throughout their journey – while waiting for their driver and during their trip. Over 40 marquee brands have already partnered with Uber to run Journey Ads including NBCUniversal, Heineken, and United Artists Releasing. With one-hundred percent share of voice during the entire trip, early results show that consumers were exposed to the ad content for approximately two minutes, resulting in two to six times the brand-performance lift compared to other benchmarks.
Brands and advertisers can now partner with Uber on a variety of advertising options on the Uber and Uber Eats apps, and beyond:
Journey Ads that capture consumers’ attention during their trip with ad units that drive purchases and brand awareness as they move with purpose.
Prominently placed Sponsored Listings across Uber Eats to get brands ahead of the competition and capture the attention of ready-to-purchase consumers, with clients such as Shake Shack already seeing increased engagement, ROI and customer acquisition.
Sponsored Emails that enable brands to promote exclusive offers to Uber and Uber Eats consumers through email delivery directly into their inboxes.
Homepage Billboards that give brands the ability to prominently display messaging on the homepage of Uber Eats, the world’s most-downloaded food delivery app.
Post-checkout Ads which allow brands to promote to purchase-minded consumers as they await updates on their order.
Storefront Ads where CPG brands can enjoy prominent placement of their products at the top of a digital storefront. PepsiCo has been a pilot partner of storefront ad offerings.
In Menu Ads that enable restaurants to feature their seasonal or specially priced menu item to entice consumers to take advantage of the promotional offer. Chipotle has been a pilot partner on this effort.
Highly visible digital out-of-home Car Top Ads which enable brands to reach consumers based on location and time of day across top U.S. cities.
Tablet Advertising pilot which will see strategic partners pilot in-car tablets in LA and SF.
”We have a global audience of valuable, purchase-minded consumers who, as part of our core business, tell us where they want to go and what they want to get,” said Dr. Grether, General Manager, for Uber’s advertising division. “While these consumers are making purchase decisions and waiting for their destination or delivery we can engage them with messages from brands that are relevant to their purchase journeys. And with 1.87 billion trips last quarter, that means we can connect advertisers to consumers on average five times per month across rides and delivery.
”We have a global audience of valuable, purchase-minded consumers who, as part of our core business, tell us where they want to go and what they want to get,” said Dr. Grether, General Manager, for Uber’s advertising division.
“Through our advertising division, we can help leading brands grow their relationships with consumers by connecting them at a moment when a customer is uniquely attentive. By tapping into our mobility media network, our pilot campaigns have surpassed expectations in terms of brand lift, engagement, and other campaign goals. We’re eager to continue working with our partners to identify best-in-class offerings – such as in-car tablet advertising – that will ensure they’re engaging with captive and engaged audiences.”
In addition to Uber’s unique ability to help brands connect with consumers at relevant points throughout their journeys or transactions, the company provides comprehensive reporting and analysis. By offering this unique view into consumer behavior, brands are able to fine-tune their understanding of their consumers and create more impactful campaigns.
About Uber
Uber’s mission is to create opportunity through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 34 billion trips later, we’re building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.
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