A Fundamental Rethinking of RTB Advertising

whitePaper | February 3, 2020

How much are you giving away to clients because of the omissions and guesstimates of time spent on the project? Do you question what can be charged back to the client, write off an hour spent on a project because you like your client or don't want to be seen as a penny pincher? Would you like to stop subsidizing clients at a personal expense to your quality of life? This month we discuss what classifies as billable and non-billable and how you can bill for more of your time.

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

The advertising landscape has always been fast-moving and responsive to changing trends but never has it been more competitive. Despite more channels to advertise on than ever before, consumers’ tolerance for advertising is at an all-time low. In fact, 89% said they either disliked ads or did not engage with them. This decline in ads tolerance has been driven by a combination of factors. From sheer saturation of adverts – it’s estimated that we are exposed to 6,000 to 10,000 ads a day – to platforms that give us a choice to pay for a subscription in return for no ads. Not only are advertisers battling with low engagement, but they are also dealing with ad blockers and increased regulations around data privacy and consumer choice. This makes the advertising landscape even more difficult to navigate and drive success.

whitePaper | March 10, 2023

Marketers around the globe have a whole new world of advertising potential at their fingertips. Digital Out-Of-Home Advertising – or DOOH – has entered a brand-new era, unleashing unparalleled opportunities to reach the right audiences in precisely the right place at exactly the right time. Thanks to the power of the Internet and sophisticated programmatic technologies, marketers can now reach their target audience with personalized, relevant, data-driven and measurable marketing not only across online media channels, but via outdoor advertising as well.

whitePaper | September 6, 2022

Organizations have been placing increasingly more emphasis on making data-driven marketing decisions in recent years. Especially since the onset of COVID-19, the demand for insights on how to craft the optimal marketing budget allocation plan has risen markedly. Marketers rely on guiding principles like Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to determine which marketing channels will drive the highest return and optimize marketing budget allocations to maximize business outcomes.

whitePaper | August 24, 2022

Streamlined, fluid and accessible ways of transacting between inventory and media have only partly been realized across current forms of advertising automation — namely programmatic. Our consideration of automation will go beyond programmatic to include how marketers effectively advertise in an omnichannel ecosystem, doing so in a fashion that ensures the best return on investment for whole campaigns — rather than a single ad exposure.

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

This ALPHA KONNECT report is an overview of the current connected TV landscape in Canada. The report uses Canadian and North American data such as user reach in Canada, household penetration, and demographic data to help marketers and agencies better understand the impact of connected TV advertising. This report also serves as a guide that breaks down what connected TV is, how connected TV advertising works, best practices when running a campaign, how to properly measure campaigns, and also provides insight on the modern marketing mix that many advertisers are embracing with Connected TV advertising.