Tagged 'retargeting'

Closing the Loop – Email plus Display Marketing

Posted by Leslie Van Zee on January 31st, 2013 at 11:28 am

Integrating email with your advertising campaign has many advantages for both the consumer and the business. Not only is it a good way to increase your marketing response rates, it can create closer relationships with the majority your company's regular customers. When you integrate display ad campaigns into email marketing, you can create a system that can keep in touch with the customer while, at the same time, showing them that there is more that they can do with your business.

Display Ad Targeting Strategies

Posted by Leslie Van Zee on October 25th, 2012 at 9:45 am

Today's technology allows for a greater analysis of the constituency of any given business, including on the local level. Never before has localized audience profiling become so simple, and as a result, advertising has made a dramatic turn for the individual. Below is a list of various targeting strategies.

Why are tracking and targeting in mobile so different from online?

Posted by Scott Swanson on June 18th, 2012 at 8:11 am

One of the biggest misconceptions in mobile advertising is around the question of whether it’s possible to target and track users the exact same way that in mobile as it’s done in online advertising.
The cold, hard truth is that online targeting and tracking technology is primarily dependent on third-party cookies, and most mobile devices are not enabled for third-party cookies. This makes mobile a truly distinct medium, needing its own tactics and solutions for targeting and tracking effectively.

Why isn’t mobile the same as online?
Well, first you have to understand that tracking in generally done with the use of cookies. A wonderfully anonymous, easily-deleted, and low-file-size technology that is widely used on the desktop internet.
But there are two types of cookies. There are first-party cookies, which are the ones that remember your password when you log in to a website (and therefore keep you from having to re-enter your username on every mobile site you log into). They’re called ‘first party’ because they’re set on the same domain as the website you’re visiting, and have a very high acceptance rate (95%).
Third-party cookies -- the ones that advertisers place on websites -- track unique visitors across multiple domains or pages... Read more

F’CAP RETARGETING

Posted by Jeff Hirsch on October 11th, 2011 at 11:00 am

That’s frequency capping folks.  Get your minds out of the gutter.  Although, if we are being guttural, I have a topic to touch on.  It’s been only a week since I joined Underdog Media and I have inundated myself in the world of performance advertising and, more specifically, retargeting.
Retargeting is a hugely valuable tool for retailers. Here’s a simple scenario: A consumer comes to the site, thereby expressing interest in products and services in a manner by which there can be no confusion.  It’s a data point that is inarguable.  They do some research, perhaps make some shopping basket entries, and then don’t finish their business.  For whatever reason a transaction didn’t take place.
That’s where retargeting kicks in. By cookie-ing the consumer, you now can target them offsite and encourage them to complete their purchase.  With the advent of dynamic creative, ads can be tailored specifically to the exact products the consumer was looking at. These ads work at conversion rates comparable to search advertising. This technique must be in the quiver of every online retailer on the Internet.  By the way, since it is so successful, there are dozens of online media companies that feature this as a core... Read more

Re-Targeting Means Re-Thinking Creative

Posted by Matt Rosenberg on March 4th, 2011 at 3:47 pm

Re-targeting gives us a great tool to take someone who has qualified themselves as a lead and keep them warm while they are in the consideration process. But re-targeting requires a creative plan as well as a media plan. Case in point:
I am starting to think about getting a new car. I have an Infiniti that I love, but which is rear-wheel drive and not making me comfortable in this snowy winter. So I'm looking for AWD and, because I don't drive a lot of highway anymore, a hybrid. Because I love my car, I went to infiniti.com to see if they had a hybrid.
They didn't. But they do have an AWD and, out of curiosity and a bit of brand loyalty, I went through the configuration process. At the end, I realized that really hybrid is the way I want to go.
Now, though, pretty much wherever I go on that computer, I am served ads for the car I configured and abandoned. From adwords to display to tickers on youtube, it's all infiniti. Now, this is doing one job, which is to keep infiniti on my mind.... Read more