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Bluegrass Promotional Marketing

Founded in 1995, Bluegrass is a full-service promotional marketing firm specializing in custom products and brand marketing. In 2003, the eight-year-old company expanded into several new markets, which added new clients, doubled their staff and tripled their revenue.

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The Local Programmatic Market: OTT and Digital Reach Extension Channels

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

The local advertising marketplace will reach $167.4 billion in 2022 as local, regional, and national buyers compete to bring their messages to local audiences across major traditional and digital media platforms. The fastest-growing media segment is OTT with an annual growth rate of +57.4 percent in 2022. This emphasizes how competitive this media channel has become, as consumer behavior follows the same trend. In this whitepaper developed in collaboration with BIA, discover key trends impacting shifting media budgets, the effects of programmatic, and forecasts for local advertising in the years to come.

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Marketing mix modeling best practices: Understanding why regional data delivers more accurate results than national data

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.

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IAB-Europe Digital Ad effectiveness White Paper

whitePaper | November 11, 2019

The measurement of advertising effectiveness is steeped in a history of evolution and the introduction of digital channels has increased this pace of change. In order to understand how the industry measures digital ad effectiveness and how digital media contributes to advertising success, this white paper collates a range of industry measurement approaches along with general research findings and learnings. The white paper also provides guidance and considerations, based on these learnings, for campaign measurement.

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Ghost Bidding for Causal Advertising Measurement

whitePaper | August 10, 2022

It’s critical for marketers to know if their campaigns are influencing behavior in response to an ad. But to really know if a campaign actually works, consumer response must be compared with those who hadn’t been exposed to the ad. This new study demonstrates the dramatic power of “ghost bidding” in revealing true campaign effectiveness. A large U.S.-based apparel company ran an extended ad campaign to a targeted audience. The difference? The company used demand-side platform technology to simultaneously expose and exclude identical user groups from viewing the ad. This A/B study used “ghost bidding”—withdrawing bids from the excluded group at the last moment—to plot the true effectiveness of display, video and audio ads, and demonstrated a powerful validation of marketing effectiveness.

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Designing Ads for Digital Displays Getting the most impact from the medium

whitePaper | March 26, 2020

Digital billboard displays have opened a new realm of possibilities for designers in the outdoor advertising market. The idea of going seamlessly from computer display to any billboard display location almost instantly, might have seemed like science fiction several years ago, but here we are. It’s now the fastest growing segment of the outdoor advertising industry.

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Location Context 2.0

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

As the ad tech industry is readying itself for a new privacy-centric future, the key question is: in a world without ad trackers, how can advertisers continue to reach their target audiences at scale?

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Bluegrass Promotional Marketing

Founded in 1995, Bluegrass is a full-service promotional marketing firm specializing in custom products and brand marketing. In 2003, the eight-year-old company expanded into several new markets, which added new clients, doubled their staff and tripled their revenue.

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