Integral Ad Science Announces Canada's Globe and Mail, Offering Custom Brand Suitability for Advertisers with IAS Context Control

Integral Ad Science | September 15, 2020

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, today announced that The Globe and Mail, Canada's trusted source of news, will now offer IAS's leading contextual targeting solution, Context Control. This contextual technology is offered incrementally with existing IAS brand safety controls, providing curated contextual targeting and smart inventory packaging at scale. Marketers can now control their ad adjacencies with a wide array of contextual signals, including the sentiment and the emotional classification of content on a specific page. This enables advertisers to find the most relevant content adjacencies for campaigns within brand-safe and suitable environments. The powerful tool also delivers a precise semantic understanding of page-level context - this enables advertisers to navigate common homonym scenarios that keywords cannot (such as the difference between "gun shot" versus "golf shot" content). Additionally, this cutting-edge technology allows publishers to more strategically categorize and monetize their content, leaving them better equipped to appropriately monetize news content versus competitive safety and suitability solutions.

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Our Client is a multinational banking corporation that operates a  network of more than 500 offices, in 19 countries in Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and North America.

As a result of the economic downturn brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, many financial institutions shifted their investment strategies to focus more heavily on digital advertising. This led to a significant increase in competition on platforms such as Google, Facebook, TikTok, and Line, which in turn drove up customer acquisition costs for banks. Our client's marketing team was struggling to keep up with these rising costs and maintain profit margins.

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Our Client is a multinational banking corporation that operates a  network of more than 500 offices, in 19 countries in Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and North America.

As a result of the economic downturn brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, many financial institutions shifted their investment strategies to focus more heavily on digital advertising. This led to a significant increase in competition on platforms such as Google, Facebook, TikTok, and Line, which in turn drove up customer acquisition costs for banks. Our client's marketing team was struggling to keep up with these rising costs and maintain profit margins.

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