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  • Paid Media
    • What is first-party data?
    • Activate customers
    • Activation scenarios
      • Audience acquisition and expansion
      • Lifecycle marketing
      • Product marketing
      • Optimize bidding
      • Optimize budgets w/CLV
      • Suppression lists
      • Prospect conversion
    • Activate audiences with …
    • Measure paid media campaigns
      • Performance indicators
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        • Paid media indicators
        • Owned media indicators
      • Example: Measuring campaigns

Paid Media¶

Most brands spend years acquiring and building solid relationships with their most loyal customers and this effort generates unique and valuable insights into their patterns and preferences.

Building these relationships over time can be expensive. With the recent trend toward privacy-centric marketing strategies, these relationships are essential for using paid media advertising to find new customers using ad platforms, such as Facebook, Google, The Trade Desk, TikTok, or Criteo.

Paid media can be an expensive and complicated process for brands and often represents a significant percentage of a brand’s total activation budget.

With the rise of privacy-centric marketing strategies resulting in the demise of third-party data and cookies, combined with the rise of customer data privacy regulations, advertisers must pivot their marketing strategies toward using their first-party data as the critical seed component of their customer activation strategy across paid media.

Capturing reliable data from across disparate silos in your organization to build unified customer profiles is essential to the future of your brand’s acquisition strategy in paid media.

Audiences built against unified customer profiles leads to significantly higher returns on ad spend (ROAS) when activating these audiences across paid media. Use these audiences to grow your brand, find new customers, and build better relationships with your most important customers.

What is first-party data?¶

First-party data is provided to a company or a brand from the customer, often directly, and captures how your customers interact with your brand.

What is first-party data?

There are many sources of first-party data, including:

  • Browsing activity on your brand’s website

  • Browsing activity within a mobile app

  • Purchasing an item in-store or from your website using a credit card

  • Requesting an emailed receipt

  • Signing up for a benefit or rebate

  • Completing an online form

  • Filling out a registration card

  • Responding to email and/or SMS messaging

  • Online (website) and offline (in-store) data

  • Loyalty programs

An important concept around first-party data is that it not only needs to be accurate it also needs to be comprehensive. Customers are not static and neither is their relationship to your brand(s).

Because customers are not static you need a platform that recomputes their identity and behaviors regularly. Having a comprehensive and historical view of your customer’s behaviors across online and offline channels is the best way to get the data that enables the outcomes your brand requires from paid media.

Activate customers¶

There are many ways to activate customers across the paid media landscape. The first step is the most important: build audiences against complete customer profiles built from first-party data. This approach leads to:

  • Better match rates across paid media

  • Better omnichannel marketing and advertising results (revenue and ROAS)

  • Fewer dependencies on decaying cookie onboarding tools

  • No dependencies on third-party cookies, mobile advertiser IDs (MAIDs), or other deprecating digital signals

Activation scenarios¶

The following sections broadly describe some of the most common reasons why brands choose to activate audiences using paid media, along with some examples of the types of audiences you could use for activation. This is not an exhaustive list.

Audience acquisition and expansion¶

Finding new customers is critical to the successful growth of your brand.

Use Amperity to build high quality seed audiences that contain your most valuable customers. Filter that audience using attributes and PII in your customer 360 – demographics, interests, product preferences, product affinities, purchase histories – to define a seed audience that your brand can use with lookalike campaigns.

Use seed audiences to grow your customer base and find new customers who are similar to the high-value customers your brand already has.

For example, build seed audiences for:

  • Customers who are predicted to have an affinity for a specific product

  • Customers who belong to your loyalty program and live in specific regions

  • Customers who are predicted to be high-value customers during the next 6-12 months

  • Customers with a history of purchasing specific products, sorted by region, age group, or gender

Lifecycle marketing¶

Amplify lifecycle marketing campaigns – churn prevention, VIP cultivation, one-time buyers – with more detailed audiences. For example, build audiences for:

  • Highest value VIPs

  • Customers who are almost VIPs

  • Customers who have opted out and were, at one point high-value customers, but have churned

  • Customers who are at every stage – active, at risk, churned, etc. – to build out complex churn prevention and one-time buyer campaigns

Note

Lifecycle marketing campaigns are often highly complex with many stages and subtle differences that define how your brand wants to interact with customers who are at specific stages within the campaign.

Product marketing¶

Product marketing campaigns support product launches, new arrivals, markdowns, price announcements, and promotions. For example, build audiences for:

  • Preferred price points

  • Discount sensitivity

  • Transaction-based customers, such as “New arrivals” or “Repeat holiday shoppers”

  • Product affinities

  • Specific attributes, such as “New customers acquired during holiday”

Optimize bidding¶

Optimize bidding for ads placement by using your most valuable audiences and strongest product affinities. For example, build audiences for:

  • Highest value VIPs

  • Customers who are almost VIPs

  • Product affinity-based audiences

and then use these audiences with acquisition and/or remarketing campaigns.

Optimize budgets w/CLV¶

Optimize budgets using customer lifetime value, both historical and predicted, to evaluate acquisition channels and as part of retargeting campaigns.

Align your budget with campaigns that lead to higher customer lifetime values as a result of acquisition or conversion. For example, build audiences for:

  • Reaching new customers by suppressing past purchasers from your campaigns

Note

Use historical lifetime value along with more specific customer profile attributes to optimize budgets when predicted attributes are unavailable.

Suppression lists¶

Suppression lists help you optimize your budget and optimize the frequency at which you advertise to your customers. For example, build audiences for:

  • Limiting the number of messages that are set by only sending messages to customers with a high product affinity

  • Limiting the number of email and SMS messages sent to opted-in customers

  • Preventing customers who have opted out of email and SMS messages from being part of a campaign

Prospect conversion¶

Target prospects for whom you have contact information to encourage them to make their first purchase.

Activate audiences with …¶

Amperity provides direct connections to the paid media ecosystem.

Amazon Ads

Amazon Ads is an online advertising platform that helps to target customers, track campaign results, and improve brand awareness.

Bing

Bing Ads appear within the Bing advertising network to web users. Advertisers pay to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, and so on. Use the Microsoft Advertising destination to advertise to audiences across the Bing advertising networks.

Criteo

Criteo is a commerce media platform that helps marketers and media owners manage and scale campaigns. Use the Criteo destination to send audiences to Criteo, and then advertise to customers across paid media, including connected TV (CTV), banner ads, and video ads.

Tip

Use your brand’s offline transactions data to optimize advertising targeting algorithms in Criteo. Review the requirements for using SFTP to send transactions data to Criteo , and then ask your Amperity representative (or DataGrid Operator) to configure Amperity to send offline transactions data. This should be configured to send the last 24 hours of transactions and should run daily.

Display & Video 360

Display & Video 360 enables advertising on connected TVs (CTVs), such as Android TV and Chromecast, online video platforms, such as YouTube, along with access to third-party partner exchanges. Use the Google DV360 destination to activate audiences using Display & Video 360.

Facebook

Ads on Facebook appear in a variety of locations, including the news feed and within the right-side column on pages. Use Meta Ads Manager to manage ad placements on Facebook. Use Meta Ads Manager to reach users on Facebook.

Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger is a mobile app for chat, messaging, and video that integrates seamlessly with Instagram and Facebook. Use Meta Ads Manager to reach users on Facebook Messenger.

Gmail

Gmail is a web-based email platform that supports inline paid media advertising. Use the Google Ads destination to activate audiences using Gmail.

Google Ads

Google Ads appear within the Google advertising network to web users. Use ads to promote your brand, help sell products or services, raise awareness, and increase traffic to your website or stores. Use the Google Ads destination to activate audiences using Google Ads.

Google Search

Google Search ads enable paid media advertising at the top of search results on Google.com. Use the Google Ads destination to activate audiences using Google Search.

Google Shopping

Google Shopping ads enable paid media advertising from the Shopping tab on Google.com. Use the Google Ads destination to activate audiences using Google Shopping.

Instagram

Instagram is photo and video sharing mobile app on which your brand can use images, videos, and links to promote your brand’s products and services. Use the Meta Ads Manager destination to reach users on Instagram.

LiveRamp

Send audiences to LiveRamp from Amperity, and then use your combined online and offline data sources to build personalized omnichannel experiences that grow revenue and build better long-term relationships with your customers.

Meta Ads Manager

Meta Ads Manager is a unified ad creation tool that your brand can use to create and publish ads to Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and the Meta Audience Network. When you send data to Facebook using the Facebook Ads destination, your data will be available from Meta Ads Manager.

Microsoft Advertising

Microsoft Advertising is a pay-per-click advertising platform that displays ads based on keywords in a user’s search query. Build audiences in Amperity, and then send them to Microsoft Advertising to open up paid media advertising options across the Microsoft Advertising network.

This network includes Bing (and sites owned and operated by Bing, such as Bing Maps, MSN.com, Bing.de and Bing.co.uk), Microsoft Audience Network , Microsoft News, Microsoft Edge, along with access to external partners, such as Yahoo.com.

Neustar

Send your high-value audiences to Neustar to reach and engage your customers seamlessly across all marketing channels.

Oracle DMP (BlueKai)

Send your high-value audiences to Oracle DMP to activate audiences across digital advertising channels. Use your audiences to build personalized and contextual advertising campaigns that engage with your customers.

Pinterest

Pinterest is a visual discovery engine on which your brand can engage with your customers. Send a list of products that are in your product catalog to Pinterest to enable pins, and then send a list of customers with whom your brand wants to engage.

Build audiences in Amperity, and then upload those audiences to Pinterest.

Reddit Ads

Reddit is home to unique communities, engaged conversations, and the best memes. Reddit Ads allows brands to find their community on Reddit, and then engage with your customers within the 100K+ active communities on Reddit using targeted ads and promoted posts.

Build audiences in Amperity, and then upload those audiences to Reddit Ads.

Snapchat

Snapchat is a social media platform that allows users to access pictures and messages for a short time. Snapchat provides a self-serve platform from which brands can manage ads and advertising campaigns. Send audiences to Snapchat, and then advertise your brand alongside your customer’s picture and message timelines.

The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk is a platform for wide internet advertising and enables the use of UID 2.0 for first-party paid media advertising. Send your best audiences from Amperity to the The Trade Desk , and then reach audiences across connected TVs, live sporting events, and advertising platforms like Disney Advertising (Disney+, Hulu, ESPN), Paramount Advertising, and more.

TikTok

TikTok is the world’s leading destination for short-form mobile videos. TikTok’s mission is to capture and present the world’s creativity, knowledge, and moments that matter in everyday life. Send audiences to TikTok directly from Amperity.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a text and messaging platform from which your brand can reach users who are not on Facebook or Instagram, but are on mobile apps that are within the same audience network. Users can open conversation threads in WhatsApp and interact directly with your brand. Use the Meta Ads Manager destination to reach users on WhatsApp.

YouTube

YouTube is an online video platform on which your brand can run in-stream, bumper, video, and discovery ads to build interest, brand awareness, and inspire your customers to take action. Use the Google DV360 destination to activate audiences using YouTube.

Measure paid media campaigns¶

Measuring the success of your paid media campaigns can be a challenge! Many of the channels are protective of the data around the performance of your campaigns and, at best, provide limited access to reporting data.

You can measure campaign efficacy using a combination of data within Amperity and data from outside parties.

The following sections describe what your brand can use to help understand how well your campaigns are performing across paid media.

Performance indicators¶

There are three broad groups of performance indicators that you can use to measure the success of your paid media campaigns:

  • Amperity-focused

  • Paid channel-focused

  • Owned channel-focused

Amperity indicators¶

Amperity indicators combine data for online and offline transactions across a defined measurement window.

  • Revenue

  • Revenue by recipient

  • Conversion rates

  • Average order value (AOV)

  • Orders by purchaser

  • Incremental revenue

  • Incremental conversion rates

Much of this data is generated as standard output in Amperity and is available from the Transaction Attributes Extended, Unified Transactions, and Unified Itemized Transactions tables. Some of this data may require building queries for additional analysis.

Paid media indicators¶

Paid media indicators can help measure audience quality and attribution. These indicators are a combination of the costs associated with your paid media campaigns and how your customers interacted with your campaign messages.

Did your customers click on a link and/or make a purchase after clicking on that link? You can measure attribution using metrics like:

  • Cost per acquisition (CPA)

  • Cost acquisition cost (CAC)

  • Cost per click (CPC)

  • Cost per thousand (CPM)

  • Click-through rate

  • Conversion rate

  • Revenue

  • Return on ad spend (ROAS)

Audience quality is a combination of match rate and scalability.

Owned media indicators¶

Owned media indicators can help measure how often customers are interacting with your campaigns. Engagement metrics include clickstream (for mobile and website), email, and SMS. Direct attribution exists when your customers opened an email or SMS message, visited your website, app, or store, and then made a purchase.

These indicators are already available to you within Amperity if you have made available to Amperity data sources that contain purchase histories (orders and items) and customer engagement (clickstream data for websites and apps, email and SMS engagement, and so on).

Did your customers open the email or text message? Did they visit your website after opening that message? Engagement metrics for owned media include:

  • Open rates

  • Click rates

  • Click-to-open rates

  • Unsubscribe rates

Did your customers purchase from your brand? Direct attribution metrics for owned media include:

  • Conversion rate

  • Revenue

Example: Measuring campaigns¶

How can you measure the success of a paid media campaign over a defined time window?

Prerequisites.

Determine your goals up-front. For example:

  1. Measurement window 3 months

  2. Performance indicators What are the key performance indicators for the measurement window?

  3. Universal control group Exclude this group from all campaigns sent to paid media during the measurement window. Also known as a “holdout group”.

  4. Use one control and one recipient group Send the campaign to the recipient group. Do not send the campaign to the control group. Use this pattern for every campaign in the measurement window.

Step 1.

To measure the success of your paid media campaigns you will need a set of key performance indicators for the defined time window. For example:

  • Aggregated incremental revenue

  • Aggregated incremental conversion

  • Potential annualized incremental revenue

and then use a combination of Amperity, paid media, and owned media performance indicators to help complete the measurement of your paid media campaigns.

Step 2.

Build an audience to use as a universal control group. This audience should be randomized and should be similar to the larger audience for your paid media campaigns.

Add the universal control group as an exclusion to all paid media campaigns for the defined time window.

Tip

Consider match rates within each paid media channel, and then make adjustments to the size of the universal control group, if necessary.

Step 3.

For each campaign, use a control group and a recipient group. Send the campaign to the recipient group. Do not send the campaign to the control group.

Tip

Try using the same percentage for each control group across the defined time window.

The control group for each campaign will help you measure the success of the individual campaign. The universal control group will help you measure all campaign audiences across the defined time window.