After years of speculation and predictions about Amazon’s ability to become a digital advertising powerhouse, it’s happening.
The online retail giant now has annual ad sales exceeding $2bn, and advertising is its fastest-growing segment. With over half of consumers starting their product searches on Amazon, there’s every reason to believe that Amazon’s ad revenue will continue to grow.
Recently, I wrote an article about the scale of ad fraud.
In it, I mentioned a press release I had received from engage:BDR about their new VP of Inventory Quality.
I decided to catch up with their CEO, Ted Dhanik, to discuss the state of the industry.
Google has unveiled Analytics 360 Suite, “a complete measurement platform” targeted at enterprise marketers.
According to Google VP of Analytics, Display and Video Products, Paul Muret, Google Analytics 360 Suite is designed to give marketers “a complete view of the consumer journey and then make sense of it all.”
Once they have insight, Google aims to help marketers drive results.
In a competitive real-time bidding marketplace it is important for demand-side platforms (DSPs) to deliver a high level of service and manage client expectations, however our new Online Advertisers Survey Report suggests that this isn’t always the case.
On the plus side though, marketers also appear to be pleased with the targeting and reporting capabilities that DSPs can offer.
In fact, improved targeting was cited as the main benefit (67%) of working with DSPs, followed by real-time understanding of campaign performance (53%) and the ability to buy at impression level (53%).