After a reenergizing week at the Cannes Lions festival, here are six observations on how our industry is changing to meet its new challenges.
In today’s newsletter: The marketing data ecosystem is key for fin tech; media buyers acknowledge YouTube as part of their TV strategies; and Threads will launch ads later this year.
American Express doesn’t just issue credit cards; it’s also in the attribution business. Because Amex can see both sides of a transaction, it’s able to collect insights about buying behavior directly from the source.
Search behavior is one of the main ingredients in Resy’s personalization strategy. The Amex-owned restaurant reservation platform uses search intent to inform its content and better understand what motivates users to book tables.
Instead of a funnel that slows traffic, we need to create a ubiquitous, always-accessible “sales superhighway” that provides countless on-ramps. This change of perspective will impact both how we define our potential audiences and the speed with which we have meaningful interactions with them, writes Lance Porigow, EVP of growth at The Shipyard.
American Express is investing in measurement technology to try and give credit where credit is due. Since 2019, Amex has been moving away from multi-touch attribution and embracing marketing mix modeling and machine learning to power its approach to measurement.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Remember Oath? Verizon Media Group, the company formerly known as Oath, is shrinking as the telco shifts its focus and most of its resources to 5G. The media group, which is made up of Verizon’s acquisition and merger of AOL and Yahoo, saw revenues […]
American Express on Tuesday launched a data-driven business division called Amex Advance. Along with it Amex is debuting a data platform designed to let marketers run custom audience segmentation and predictive modeling against Amex’s own first-party data. Amex Advance lets marketers and merchant partners use American Express’ database of deidentified cardholders to extrapolate insights about […]
Last year, American Express’ B2B division – a unit that delivers 40% of the company’s total billings – saw serious results from its programmatic advertising strategy. On Wednesday at the Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco, American Express VP Tatyana Zlotsky revealed that the financial services company had quadrupled programmatic media spend in 2016. The move […]
by Allison Schiff, Alison Weissbrot, Sarah Sluis, James Hercher, Kelly Liyakasa and Ryan Joe Programmatic advertising comes in many flavors. A handful of brands load up to take their buying fully in-house. Many give their agency partners carte blanche. Other brands take ownership of the tech contracts and segmentation, while letting their agencies pull the […]
