Topic:
Contextual targeting

Last week, Centro announced the release of their new Basis platform, a first-of-its-kind automatic contextual category recommendation solution that leverages marketers’ historical first-party data about best-performing audiences to inform future targeting strategies–available natively, within a DSP. Peer39 is proud to partner with Centro to power their Contextual Intelligence software in the Basis platform, and to help provide advertisers with unprecedented transparency into their data and targeting metrics. What is contextual Intelligence? Basis is the first demand-side platform to offer contextual category recommendations based on first-party data from advertisers. Advertisers can use this feature natively within their DSP to automatically analyze the overall performance of a brand or ...

After being postponed since 2020, the long-awaited Summer Olympics in Tokyo, is the most anticipated sporting event of the year. This July, the Games will captivate the world for seventeen days. The cultural global audiences will have over 7,000 hours of coverage across 41 sports and 339 medal events–including four new and two returning Olympic sports: surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, karate, baseball and softball–available to watch. Despite COVID restrictions lifting across many parts of the world the Tokyo Games will be unprecedented on many fronts. It marks the first time in history first time in history the Olympic Games were temporarily postponed for a reason other than war and is set to be the first programmatic one. The Tokyo Games are being touted as the most digital, and ...

The move to more contextually-based audience selection for display ads continues to accelerate. And as businesses face the challenge of replacing cookie-driven audience targeting, marketers are looking for proven ways to create relevant advertising that drives purchases and brand loyalty. Contextual targeting has emerged as a powerful solution, but it’s important to explore different types of contextual targeting. Although page context has certainly been an option for targeting, understanding the broader consumer context is even more powerful. One type of advanced contextual targeting, geo-contextual targeting, allows advertisers to target audiences based on the demand generated by the context of a consumer’s immediate environment. Peer39 partners with Planalytics Planalytics and Peer39 ...

In just two decades, there have been drastic changes to how consumers access entertainment. It wasn’t that long ago when pay television was the new thing and we regularly drove to the video store to pick out a few movies to watch on the weekend. Today, the video stores are long gone and, for many, so are the original iterations of pay television (cable/satellite). More and more consumers are cord-cutting and turning to streaming content instead. The library of content we have can immediately tap into far exceeds even the largest video store library back in the day and provides access to and discovery of older titles, along with frequent new additions. In addition, consumers can watch this content in so many more ways than ever before, including via their smartphones and streaming TV ...

Following the deprecation of the cookie and changes to user privacy policies, advertisers are actively seeking out innovative solutions to maintain ad relevance. Based on its history of driving performance without the need for cookies, contextual targeting is eliminating media inefficiencies by ensuring advertising investments are delivering in suitable contexts. Programmatic media is efficient at maximizing reach and achieving cost-efficient outcomes, but without contextual layers, it may neglect brand suitability. Prioritizing targeted contexts can greatly improve personalization, ad effectiveness, and resonance. Keyword and category-based targeting are effective, but we wanted to challenge ourselves and create a solution that was better suited for fueling brand growth and development. ...

“The internet has dramatically expanded the modern marketer’s tool kit, in large part because of one simple but transformative development: digital data” (HBR) This evolution of marketing has happened at great speed, and cost—primarily to consumers. The too-often unchecked use of data has resulted in significant changes to browser controls, and privacy regulations that protect the consumer. Of course, marketers have gotten accustomed to the data, so the consumer-driven push for privacy presents challenges for marketers who rely on user data to connect with their audience. The flip side of these challenges is the opportunity they bring. Internet transparency and privacy regulations, along with web browsers blocking cookies ensure legacy audience-based targeting strategies eventually won’t ...

Advertising in 2020 bears little resemblance to advertising just 10 years ago. The options and investment in digital continues to grow, and the rapid consumer adoption of connected TV (CTV) has been closely followed by increased investment from brands. Connected TV is an exciting and growing opportunity for advertisers—the case for venturing into CTV is pretty clear. However, in practice, it comes with a level of complexity that can be challenging to navigate. As people throughout the industry work to make sense of the CTV ecosystem, explanations and definitions of different aspects of CTV have flooded the internet. Of course, it’s a developing space, so there’s no single definitive guide to reference. Knowing what’s out there, we wanted to provide a valuable overview of CTV, the ...

Since the beginning of the new millennium, just 20 years in, we’ve watched massive changes in how we consume entertainment. Pay television (cable/satellite) are no longer the default, video stores are practically non-existent, and yet, the amount of content we have access to today far exceeds our wildest dreams back in the day. The shift to streaming services has run parallel to advances in the technology we use to watch television. And though that experience of watching TV has gone through radical changes, consumers aren’t giving up their TVs. It's vital for digital marketing to adapt to data-driven placements to optimize ad campaigns . The case for advertising on CTV According to a recent report from Conviva, viewing time for streaming in the past year is up 57% globally, though Europe ...

Every day brings us closer to the time when cookies aren’t an option for advertisers anymore. The news of cookies going away isn’t all bad, though. After all, cookies have their fair share of problems in terms of relevance for consumers. Just about everyone has a story like one of these: You buy something and then see ads for the item you’ve purchased all over the sites you visit for days or weeks. You buy a gift for someone—let’s say it’s your 10-year-old niece—and you start seeing ads related to that gift you have no interest in anymore. You’re a parent working full time and do searches at home related to your child’s needs and the ads follow you around while you work at the office. Not ideal, is it? While research shows consumers want personalized ads, there’s a growing unwillingness ...