INAP Closes Big Colocation Deal With Global Web Advertising Platform Taboola

Data Economy | April 16, 2019

You may not like the advertising content that Taboola throws at you while browsing, but for many publishers and advertisers it’s what makes the internet a viable market, and it needs a reliable infrastructure to support it. Internap Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP) has sealed a deal with leading online advertising service firm Taboola for expanded colocation services at its flagship INAP Los Angeles data centre. To deliver its platform to the world’s leading publishers and advertisers, Taboola requires scalable, high-performance colocation and network connectivity services. Andrew Day, chief operating officer at INAP, said: “When a customer like Taboola interacts with over a billion people, you need a trusted partner to ensure your network and data centre infrastructure is in good hands.” INAP’s Performance IP solution, powered by a patented route optimisation engine, automatically directs Taboola’s outbound traffic along the lowest-latency path. At over 100 network PoPs worldwide, Performance IP is said to make around 500m latency-reducing route optimisations every day.

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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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AiAdvertising Uncovers ChatGPT’s Commercial Applications

AiAdvertising | February 16, 2023

AiAdvertising, an AdTech company, announced being the first to uncover ChatGPT's commercial applications in the AdTech industry, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) utilization for the marketing industry. The automated ChatGPT solution is making signals and insights of AiAdvertising's PersonalAI more informative and targeted. The signals and insights of PersonalAI provide detailed information about behavioral information, psychographics, demographics, and triggers for the consumer adaptive curve. With its solutions and insights, ChatGPT is enhancing the diversity, scalability, and persona-driven content of AiAdvertising's PersonalAI. Through this leverage, AiAdvertising is making clients' paid advertising campaigns and landing pages more engaging at the psychographic level and customizing them as per the personas' needs based on user experiences, needs, behaviors and goals. ChatGPT's commercial applications have the potential to automate and enhance complex communications like email sales campaigns, computer code, and customer support. It can generate personalized automated responses to customer inquiries, content for social media marketing campaigns and assistance throughout the customer cycle. CEO of AiAdvertising, Jerry Hug, said, "What is remarkable is that all of this is done without any type of unconscious bias. Even as marketers, we insert our own opinions into the words and language we use to think about a brand or product. ChatGPT allows us to remove that predisposition and focus on a more customer-based solution leveraging data and science rather than opinions and assumptions." He added, "We are now taking our PersonaAI ChatGPT approach to market with our clients and are already generating buzz about the anticipated increased performance of personalized campaigns." (Source – CSM Wire) About AiAdvertising AiAdvertising, an advertising technology-based solutions provider, has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning and building software for marketing companies since 1998. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, it provides services based on digital marketing, data analytics, creativity, content strategy, digital media, e-commerce, and big data, worldwide. It eliminates digital waste and increases the return on digital ad spend. Its flagship product, the Campaign Performance Platform, offers a subscription-based end-to-end Ad Management solution, utilizing artificial intelligence to improve the advertisements' performance, efficiency, and productivity. It assists advertising agencies and brands in measuring, scaling, creating, predicting, and targeting personalized campaigns.

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MobileFuse Unveils New Ad Tools to Help Boost Revenue

MobileFuse | January 02, 2023

MobileFuse, a leading digital advertising platform, has released a new mobile software development kit (SDK), mediation adapters, and a proprietary video player. These tools are designed to reduce friction and allow mobile app publishers and mediation platforms to access MobileFuse's premium inventory and increase revenue. This will help mobile app publishers and mediation platforms because it will give them access to MobileFuse's premium inventory and cut down on the costs of making their own tools. The MobileFuse SDK has reportedly allowed publishing partners to double fill rates and increase eCPMs by 20% or more. The SDK has duoBid, which lets advertisers run video ads in larger static banner inventory. It also has a proprietary video player with full VAST capabilities, support for rich media, lightweight technology, and support for the latest mobile technologies. With the help of these tools, publishers and mediation platforms have been able to make a lot more money and make more money from what they make. MobileFuse's SDK, integrated through an AppLovin MAX Custom Adapter, has yielded immediate success for our app. The SDK is generating higher fill rates, eCPM, CTR, and five times more revenue on a similar amount of bid requests than our oRTB connection. The implementation process was easy, and their team was responsive and always willing to help along the way." Amy Nicole Hernandez, CFO and VP of Business Operations at TextMe The SDK is the only way to get the proprietary video player, and the mediation adapters make it easier to connect to leading mediation platforms. With the SDK, publishers can also take advantage of the duoBid video ad-serving platform. About MobileFuse MobileFuse is a leading in-app advertising and CTV platform. In a variety of verticals, the company serves leading brands, agencies, bidders, and app developers. MobileFuse empowers its clients by reaching highly curated and receptive audiences through innovative solutions that combine location-based in-app and CTV exchanges, moments-based targeting, patented location verification, custom creative, and data-driven insights. MobileFuse, which was founded in 2009, is headquartered in New York City and has offices throughout the United States. The company will be carbon-negative by 2022.

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Veritonic in Partnership with Audacy Reveals Effective Audio Ads Study

Veritonic, Audacy | February 14, 2023

On February 13, 2023, Veritonic, the industry's most comprehensive audio research and analytics platform, announced a partnership with Audacy, and the results of a ground-breaking audio study concluding that in audio advertisements, four key elements—sonic branding, music, voice, and message, that maximize intent to purchase, recall, and brand favorability. Sonic branding is a highly successful marketing method to increase brand identification and sales. It is an essential part of a brand's arsenal and a constant factor in advertising success. It is fundamental to how we perceive and recognize brands. A regularly used logo may strengthen a business's visual and vocal identity and increase brand recall. Sound branding accomplishes the following: Increases Radio and Podcast purchase intent by 6% and 2%, respectively. Radio ad recall increased by 17%, and podcast advertisements by 14%. Sonic branding makes radio advertisements +7% more trustworthy, +6% more pleasant, +5% more powerful, and +4% more relevant. The idea is to pick music that matches a business's fundamental values and brand identity, whether you're curating unique compositions or choosing essential tunes. Music may support a brand's values, attract attention inside advertisements, and connect with target consumers. Adding music to advertisements increases buying intent by 5%. Additionally, music helps commercials remain top-of-mind, drives buy intent, and ads with music were more remembered, achieving 4% greater recall. About Veritonic Veritonic is a marketing intelligence platform specializing in the use of music in advertising campaigns. The platform uses machine learning to measure the effectiveness of music, voiceovers, jingles, and mnemonics. The business was established in 2015 in Killingworth, Connecticut. Global brands use Veritonic's complete audio research and analytics platform, agencies, publishers, and platforms to study, test, and assess the ROI of their audio assets and campaigns in-market, pre-market, and post-campaign. The ensuing knowledge helps customers to gain confidence in their audio investment, manage risk via optimization, and boost their return by engaging consumers in exciting audio experiences. About Audacy Audacy, Inc. is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based American broadcasting company. It was founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation and is the second-largest radio corporation in the United States, with 235 radio stations in 48 media markets. In November 2017, the firm and CBS Radio combined. The deal was structured as an exchange offer, allowing CBS Corporation shareholders at the time of the merger to swap their shares for Entercom shares, representing a 72 percent ownership in the merged business.

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