In case you’re wondering, Department of the Obvious Senior Intern Jamie is safely sheltering in the attic. But he still keeps an eye on industry news and just shared this survey from marketing agency Element-R Partners, which found that 74% of marketers had changed or reduced activities during the pandemic. A majority (61%) were somewhat or highly annoyed by business-as-usual messages.
I never expected to write that headline and you never expected to read it, Dear Reader, but such are the times. Two-thirds (69%) of respondents to this Monday.Com survey said they enjoy working from home more than they expected and 54% said they’re more productive than at the office. Things are so bad that I’m printing this without a link to the full survey.
Attribution is the mother of all measurement challenges. Neustar and iSpot.tv have connected their data to make it a little easier. iSpot tracks ad views across 12 million opted-in smart TVs and lets clients add their own information including retail sales. Neustar is integrating iSpot data with its own consumer information, enabling advertisers to build richer audience profiles and attribution analyses. Problem not quite solved but it’s one more piece of the puzzle.
Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.