Data about store locations is most important to local marketers. A report from BIA/Kelsey finds that franchise marketers, which are mostly local businesses, concentrate their spending on locally-targeted media including direct mail, Facebook ads, Internet Yellow Pages, and community sponsorships. Most use their own marketing software and services but they still want the franchise parent to provide training in digital marketing.
Marketing Evolution offers an advanced attribution methodology that uses individual-level data to recommend an optimal media mix. It’s complicated but worth exploring. They just raised $20.6 million, bring total investment to date to $24.6 million.
More good news: ad exchange OpenX reported that more than 50% of top publishers had adopted the ads.txt standard, which prevents fraud by listing companies that are authorized to sell their digital inventory. Ads.txt was developed by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and launched last May, so this is very fast adoption.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.