Webinar Replay: Mobile Targeting with SiteScout

by Ratko Vidakovic on May 14, 2013 · 0 comments

Earlier this month we had a great webinar on the topic of Mobile Targeting. Matt Sauls covered high-level market trends in mobile, then moved on to practical information for marketers getting started with mobile campaigns on SiteScout.

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Tablets: Surge into Mainstream and Grab Nearly Half of Mobile RTB Share Worldwide

Mobile stands to play an important role in the real-time bidding (RTB) space. When it comes to the potential of particular mobile platforms, pay attention to tablets because of late they’ve been surging into the mainstream.

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RTB Zeitgiest: Making Programmatic More Efficient

by Ratko Vidakovic on April 29, 2013 · 0 comments

Ad:Tech: Making Programmatic Buying More Targeted and Efficient

Programmatic buying is already very efficient when it comes targeting, but if you’re looking for ways to make it even more effective look no further than your own creative power.

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SiteScout RTB Webinar: Mobile Targeting (May 2, 2013)

by Ratko Vidakovic on April 18, 2013 · 0 comments

Mobile Targeting with Matt Sauls

Our last webinar on Retargeting went very well. As always, we polled attendees to gauge interest in the next webinar topic and this time Mobile Targeting came out the clear winner. We’ll be hosting the next webinar two week from today (full details below).

During this webinar, Matt Sauls will explain how mobile targeting works and how it differs from typical desktop web campaigns. He will also discuss various reasons why mobile matters to marketers, along with different strategies that can be used to optimize mobile campaigns. After the presentation there will be a Q+A period where Matt will be answering questions from webinar attendees.

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Introducing the SiteScout API

by Ratko Vidakovic on April 16, 2013 · 1 comment

We have always created tools that empower marketers, agencies and advertisers. In order to create a richer marketing ecosystem, however, we realized that developers and entrepreneurs would also need their own tools, which is why we are proud to announce the launch of our new SiteScout API. This means that you can now build your own mobile, web, and desktop applications that interact directly with the SiteScout RTB platform!

There are 2 initial components to the API:

  • Reporting: this allows you to pull data from your campaigns into your own applications or databases. You receive access to real-time and historical campaign data on many levels (site, placement, creative, offer, etc.) You can also retrieve this data on an hourly basis, with various levels of granularity. And, by using date ranges and filters, you can “slice and dice” the data as you see fit.
  • Audience Management: this allows you to create and modify retargeting audiences associated with your account. You can also retrieve the tracking codes for your audiences in all the various formats. Furthermore, you can retrieve the stats for your audiences for any given time range, giving you the ability to track the growth of your audiences over time.

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Forecast: RTB Ad Spending To Be One-Fifth of Total Display Advertising in 2013

The future looks bright for real-time bidding (RTB) which is rapidly cementing its place as a significant player in the display advertising space. RTB is increasingly being allocated larger portions of total digital display ad spend and it’s showing no signs of slowing down.

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RTBZ: Real-Time Bidding and the Era of Lean Marketing

by Ratko Vidakovic on April 1, 2013

Real-time bidding ushers in era of lean marketing for display advertising

What’s lean marketing? How does it work in display advertising? How do you run a successful lean marketing campaign and why can they be created easily thanks to the rise of real-time bidding? SiteScout’s own Ratko Vidakovic answers those questions in his latest guest column for MarketingProfs.

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Gaining access to more ad inventory, expanding audience reach, and centralizing it all in a single platform, is important for all marketers. It’s also central to our mission as a company, which is why we are always working to bring additional supply partners on board. We also understand that being able to segment such large quantities of inventory is crucial to the media planning process, which is why we’ve added some powerful enhancements to the AdPlanner tool. We’ve also added an additional data provider for demographic/psychograhic targeting, and some new tracking tokens for campaign optimization.

Let’s start by covering the new AdPlanner enhancements…

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This Publisher Went All-In on Programmatic

Many publishers are unsure about programmatic and real-time bidding. But not all of them, and one Netherlands-based publisher has shifted its entire 20-person sales department to focus on programmatic ad sales.

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Webinar Replay: SiteScout RTB Retargeting

by Ratko Vidakovic on March 14, 2013 · 1 comment

Yesterday’s Retargeting webinar had a great turnout with lots of great questions. Matt covered practically all the aspects of retargeting and how they apply to marketers.

If you have 45 minutes to spare, grab your favorite beverage and watch this presentation.

Mobile Marketing: From Clickable to Tappable Ads

by Wendy Kam Marcy on March 4, 2013 · 0 comments

Early February Google announced that they were consolidating mobile and desktop ads in their Enhanced Campaign feature. This comes as no surprise in a world of increasing connectivity. Now more than ever, advertisers need to integrate mobile-friendly ads into their online marketing campaigns.

Here are some supporting stats from KISSmetrics:

  • 20% of web traffic comes from a smartphone or tablet, and we can expect a steady surge as mobile overtakes desktop this year.
  • Mentioning a city or location in a mobile ad can lift CTR by 200%.
  • Attention spans are 2 seconds longer on a mobile device where users are willing to wait 5 seconds for a page to load as opposed to 3 seconds for desktop.

Yes, we get it… Mobile is taking over! So exactly how do we make the transition from a clickable to a tappable ad? Here are three main differences to consider:

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Publishers Beef Up for Programmatic

Real-time bidding is changing the sales game and to stay effective many publishers are outfitting their teams with specialists more suited to the new real-time environment. Organizations like Forbes and The Weather Network are building separate dedicated programmatic sales teams and younger companies like Business Insider are building sales teams with programmatic at the core.

More publishers are discovering the new programmatic environment requires they bring on sales talent who realize technical fluency is just as important as traditional skill sets. While some companies might not feel the need yet to adapt, it’s safe to say most agree the speed at which RTB and programmatic are changing the playing field means publishers have to be ready and willing to adapt.

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SiteScout RTB Webinar: Retargeting (March 13th)

by Ratko Vidakovic on February 28, 2013 · 2 comments

Retargeting with Matt Sauls

Our last webinar on Campaign Optimization was very well received. We polled attendees to gauge the interest for the next topic in our webinar series and Retargeting was the clear winner. We’ve decided that the next webinar will be approximately two weeks from now, towards the middle of March. Full details are below.

During this webinar, Matt Sauls will cover the basics of how retargeting works and how to set up different types of retargeting campaigns. He will also discuss various reasons why retargeting matters to marketers, along with different strategies that can be used on the SiteScout RTB platform. Matt will use real-life campaigns to demonstrate the retargeting process and how an actual campaign looks. He will also cover the usage of our new Audience Capture feature, which makes retargeting extremely easy for all marketers. As usual, after the presentation there will be a Q+A period where Matt will be answering questions from webinar attendees.

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How to Find Your Target Market on SiteScout RTB

by Matt Sauls on February 26, 2013 · 0 comments

No matter what product or service you are advertising, it is important to identify your target market and ensure that you are placing your ads in front of the right audience. SiteScout RTB provides a number of targeting options that can help you do this successfully.

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Our webinar with Tracking202 last Thursday was a huge success based on all the positive feedback that we have received. Here is a replay for anyone that couldn’t attend:

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