Social Media and the Data Management Platform

whitePaper | September 23, 2022

You have quality content and a highly engaged audience on your site. You are a line item on every Fortune 100’s marketing plan. You opened up your site to programmatic demand because of what the technology promised to offer: “target the right user, at the right time, for the right price.” And it has delivered on that promise for both you and your advertisers. But your CPMs have been declining for a decade. Your display ads have become almost worthless, you’ve tried adding new units like video and native to the mix. Now your site is bloated, load times are unbearable, and your core audience is noticing. You feel helpless to turn it around.

whitePaper | September 2, 2022

The eSports industry has been the beneficiary of a huge shift in consumer behavior as a result of the pandemic. We have seen incredible surges in popularity across eSports participation and viewership. Not sure how to approach the multi-billion dollar industry? We have your back! This guide is intended for eSports noobs to help understand the ins and outs of the industry.

whitePaper | January 1, 2020

When AT&T bought the first banner ad on Hotwired.com in October 1994, no one could have realised that they were witnessing the birth of an industry. This year, that industry will support sales of digital advertising worth over USD$223 billion. The advertising technology industry is a huge, complex and sprawling ecosystem. It incorporates everything from third-party ad networks to trading desks, real-time bidding platforms, retargeting, supply- and demand-side platforms, sophisticated attribution models and increasinglyartificial intelligence solutions.

whitePaper | May 17, 2021

Ads are a powerful and growing profit tool for marketplace operators. A Goldman Sachs Equity Research report noted in February 2021 that “in the US alone we believe retailers are positioned to generate $15-$20 billion of e-com oriented retail media revenue from CPG manufacturers by 2025; the figure should be substantially larger when we contemplate the potential to tap into media streams from electronic, apparel, sporting goods and other manufacturers for some retailers.” The scale here is massive, and marketplace operators are taking note.

whitePaper | December 30, 2019

Social media has become a standard way of life, as evidenced in the 22% increase in usage within the past year. This is more than a simple media consumption habit. A typical Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram user is actively engaged with their social network multiple times daily, which is promising for brands who are active on social media platforms.

whitePaper | February 3, 2020

Well, this is typically the time when you make New Year's Resolutions, and maybe one of those is timekeeping compliance. But rather than starting with the thinking behind all this, we'll save that for last and instead dive right into some suggestions on how to get better participation. If you're an employee vs. a principal reading this, you might want to feather your own bonus bed by taking the lead here and rallying the troops. That sort of sucking up never goes unnoticed.