When you tell people you've been tracking them across the internet, they freak out and avoid buying your product, research at the Harvard Business School found. The 449 paid subjects in the targeting research, who were recruited online, were about 24 percent less likely to be interested in making a purchase or visiting the advertiser…
AdTech-MarTech Convergence
https://twitter.com/jamesnmcdermott/status/961444634978271232 … these approaches are becoming less and less justifiable from an ROI perspective due to the level of machine-learning investment by the big ad tech platforms. We shouldn’t, however, just turn over the keys entirely to platform partners. The strategy evolves to ensuring brands are setting appropriate conversion goals and supplementing the modeling with…
Content Creation Tools @ Hearst
Content Creation Tools let marketers, editors, and brand managers create, curate, package, and promote custom experiences at scale. Role-based access and non-destructive content updates let creators get more done in less time with more opportunities for thoughtful product, partner, and messaging integration. Content Creation Tools give team leads confidence to distribute tasks, scale their teams,…
New Revenues and Sales Funnels
Revenue Generation @ Scale Standard ad slots surrounding Hearst Games were sold by internal teams and via auction to approved partners on private exchanges. Audience and Viewability details were available to all parties, and Hearst had access to significant 1st-Party demographic and psychographic info via detailed engagement metrics. Sponsorship and message integration for Beauty CPG…