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Ad360: Precision in Ad Targeting

Ad360: The Game-Changer in Programmatic Advertising

In the dynamic landscape of digital marketing, Ad360 is emerging as a revolutionary force in media buying. This platform isn’t just another tool in the advertising arsenal; it’s reshaping how ads reach audiences effectively and efficiently. Let’s explore what makes Ad360 a standout in programmatic advertising.

Broad Ad Inventory Access

Ad360 boasts a remarkable ability to access billions of impressions daily across over 160 million websites and apps globally. This wide reach ensures your brand can achieve significant visibility and engagement with a diverse audience.

Access to Google Authorized Buyers and OpenRTB

Ad360 leverages the strengths of both Google Authorized Buyers AdExchange (Google AdX) and is implementing OpenRTB protocol to access any programmatic inventory. Google AdX offers premium, brand-safe environments for your ads, ensuring they are placed on credible and relevant sites. Simultaneously, OpenRTB enhances the ad buying process with efficient, real-time bidding, allowing for optimal ad placement and audience targeting.

Advanced Targeting Options

Ad360’s suite of targeting options enables advertisers to craft highly customized campaigns:

  1. Retargeting: By tracking users who have previously visited your website or interacted with your brand, Ad360 can display your ads to them as they browse other sites. This increases the likelihood of converting previous visitors into customers, as it keeps your brand top of mind.
  2. Geo-Targeting & Hyperlocal: Customize your ad campaigns based on users’ physical locations, from broad regions to specific local areas. This is especially useful for localized promotions or for businesses with physical stores wanting to attract nearby customers.
  3. Device Targeting: Tailor your ads based on whether users are on desktops, tablets, or mobile phones. This helps in optimizing the ad format and message to suit the device preference of your target audience, enhancing user engagement.
  4. Day Parting: Choose the time of day or week when your ads will appear. This is crucial for targeting users when they are most active online or when your product or service is most relevant, like advertising breakfast items in the morning.
  5. First Party Audience: Utilize your own data, like website visitor behavior or customer databases, to create highly targeted and personalized advertising campaigns. This can significantly improve conversion rates and customer loyalty.
  6. Site Lists (Whitelists and Blacklists): Gain control over where your ads are displayed by creating lists of preferred websites (whitelists) or sites to avoid (blacklists). This ensures brand safety and relevance to your target audience.
  7. Viewability Filters: Filter out non-viewable ad placements, focusing your spend on spots where ads are actually seen by users. This improves the overall effectiveness of your ad spend.
  8. Historical CTR Filters: Use data on past ad performance to choose sites and placements that have historically high engagement rates. This predictive approach can lead to better campaign performance.
  9. Position Targeting: Select specific ad positions on a webpage, such as above the fold (visible without scrolling) or next to premium content. This strategic placement can significantly increase visibility and engagement.
  10. Languages: Target users based on their language preferences, ensuring that your ads are always in a language that your audience understands. This is particularly beneficial for international campaigns.
  11. Video Placements: Choose the right environment for your video ads, whether it’s within streaming content (in-stream) or in traditional web placements (out-stream). This maximizes the impact and engagement of your video content.

These targeting options collectively enhance the reach, relevance, and effectiveness of your advertising efforts.

Why Choose Ad360?

Ad360 stands out due to its:

  • Expansive Reach: With access to an unparalleled number of websites and apps, Ad360 ensures your brand’s presence is felt across the digital landscape. This vast reach is crucial for building brand awareness and capturing a diverse audience.
  • Quality Placements: By partnering with elite ad exchanges like Google AdX and utilizing OpenRTB, Ad360 guarantees that your ads are not just seen but seen in the right places. This premium placement is key to maintaining brand integrity and maximizing ad impact.
  • Efficient Spending: The real-time bidding capability of OpenRTB, combined with Ad360’s strategic approach, ensures that your budget is spent on the most effective ad placements. This efficiency in spending leads to a higher return on investment.
  • Flexible Targeting: Ad360’s wide array of targeting options allows for highly tailored campaigns that speak directly to your audience’s needs and preferences. This level of customization is critical for engaging and converting your target audience.

Conclusion: A New Era in Digital Advertising

Ad360 is more than just a digital advertising platform; it’s your partner in navigating the complex world of online advertising. Its extensive reach, strategic partnerships, and advanced targeting capabilities make it a formidable player in the programmatic advertising space. Ready to transform your digital advertising strategy? Explore Ad360 and lead your brand into a new era of digital dominance.

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Ad360: Top vCPM in Branding

Making Sense of Smart Advertising with Ad360

When it comes to online advertising, there’s a lot of technical talk that can seem overwhelming. But it’s really about one thing: making sure the right people see your ads at the right time and place, without overspending. Here’s how Ad360 does it differently, and better, with a focus on precision targeting.

Aiming for Quality Views

In a digital advertising campaign, you want your ads to be visible to users. That means they should appear where users can easily see them when they’re browsing the internet. This is what we call “viewable impressions.” The higher the number of viewable impressions, the more potential customers are seeing your ad.

The Challenge: Safe and Selective Placement

Placing ads isn’t just about being seen; it’s also about being seen in the right context. “Brand safety” is the term used to describe the effort to ensure that ads only appear on websites that align with the brand’s values and image. It’s a bit like screening the neighborhoods before you open a new store; you want it to be a good fit.

Outperforming the Competition

Ad360 used what’s known as a “performance-style optimization approach.” This means that even though the campaign’s main goal was branding, we used techniques commonly applied in performance marketing to enhance the results. We set stricter viewability filters than competing platforms but managed to keep costs down. This resulted in a more efficient spend, where the client paid less but got more high-quality ad views.

Here’s how much better we did:

  • 45% lower cost per viewable thousand impressions (vCPM) than Xandr
  • 66% lower vCPM than DV360

Adhering to High Standards

Even with aggressive targeting and cost-saving strategies, we maintained strict standards for:

  • Click-Through Rate (CTR): We ensured that the proportion of viewers who clicked on the ads remained high.
  • Brand Safety: We carefully selected the online environments where the ads would appear to maintain the brand’s reputation.
  • Whitelisting: We only placed ads on pre-approved sites known to be effective and safe for the brand’s image.

The Bottom Line: Precision Equals Performance

In programmatic advertising, which involves using automated technology to buy and sell ad space, precision is key. It’s not enough to just throw your ad into the digital world and hope for the best. Ad360’s approach shows that by being smart about where and how your ads are placed, and by paying close attention to viewability and brand safety, you can get more value out of every dollar spent.

This case study serves as an example of how Ad360 helps brands achieve their advertising goals more efficiently than competitors. By focusing on quality and strategic placement, Ad360 delivers branding campaigns that are not just visible, but also safe and cost-effective.

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Unlocking Ad Precision with Programmatic

Why Programmatic Advertising is the Game-Changer You Didn’t Know You Needed

Hey there!

Ever found yourself puzzled about why some ads just get you while others seem way off the mark? We’ve all been there, scratching our heads at random ads that pop up on our screens. But what if I told you there’s a smarter way to advertise that ensures your ads always find the right audience, at the right time, in the right place?

Enter: Programmatic Advertising with Ad360.

Now, before you get overwhelmed with another techy term, let me break it down in simple words. Think of programmatic advertising as the smart friend who always knows where to place your ad so it shines the brightest. It’s not about casting a wide net; it’s about precision.

Here’s what makes it so cool:

  1. Specific Website Targeting: Instead of letting your ads float around the vast internet ocean, why not place them on specific websites where you know your audience hangs out? It’s like setting up your ice cream stall at the beach on a hot day. Perfect spot, right?

2. Page-Level Precision: Sometimes, it’s not just about the website, but the exact page. If you’re selling eco-friendly products, wouldn’t it be neat to have your ad pop up on an article about sustainable living?

3. Semantic Content Alignment: This is the next-level magic. Your ad isn’t just placed based on keywords, but the overall theme and sentiment of the page content. It’s like your ad is part of the page’s story.

4. Device-Specific Delivery: We all switch between our phones, tablets, and laptops. With programmatic advertising, your ad adjusts to fit perfectly, no matter the device. Smooth, right?

5. Hyperlocal Geotargeting: Imagine promoting a special discount at your café to folks just around the corner. With hyperlocal targeting, it’s not just about reaching a city, but specific neighborhoods or even streets.

6. Granular Control: Here’s the best part – with all these amazing features, you get to decide where every penny of your ad budget goes. No more guesswork; it’s all strategic.

To wrap it up, programmatic advertising with Ad360 is like having a map where ‘X’ always marks the spot. It ensures your ads aren’t just wandering around but are on a mission to find the right audience.

So, the next time you think about advertising, remember: it’s not about being everywhere; it’s about being where it matters most. And with Ad360, you’re always spot-on.

Happy advertising!

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Web Display Ads – Freedom from Big Tech

“Is there any way to place ads beyond Facebook and Google?”  This is the most commonly-asked question to the Ad360 team.  E-commerce businesses commonly feel “trapped,” as if the only places to advertise are these sites.  Read below to break through this promotional plateau!

The Restrictions and Limitations of Google & Facebook Ads

While their networks are massive and their reach powerful, platforms like Google and Facebook do have limitations when it comes to online advertising.  Their ad networks are “restricted,” meaning any ad campaign you budget only runs ads on their network – nowhere else.  You won’t appear on any blogs that 77% of internet users read regularly.  You won’t pop up on many mobile apps or games. 

This “restricted network” limits your online store’s potential for growth!  Even worse, it makes ads appear in the same context, meaning users can more easily “tune them out.”  Thus, your options to diversify your advertising strategy for Shopify can feel “trapped” within a single network.  If you are having trouble finding success on Google or Facebook, this feeling can be discouraging.  If you cannot figure out how to make Google or Facebook work for your Shopify product advertising, where do you turn to!

Programmatic Ads – Access Every Ad Network Across the Web

Simply put, programmatic ads offer you access to the hundreds of networks beyond Google and Facebook – you are free!  Finally, e-commerce business owners can use a Shopify advertising tool that opens the entire web to ad placements.

Even better, programmatic ads use powerful software that, after receiving your daily allocated budget, will automatically place ads across the web in the most relevant spots to your business.  When it comes to increasing sales on Shopify, there may be no tool better than programmatic ads.  You will appear in a variety of online contexts to your customers, becoming memorable and expanding your promotional reach.  Customers will be impressed – and consider your business more legitimate – just by the fact they see your ads in so many unique spots!  They will assume, “Wow, these guys are all over, huh?  I should check them out.”  When it comes to increasing sales on Shopify and expanding the reach of your Shopify product advertising, nothing beats programmatic ads.

Ad360 Offers Easy Access to Programmatic Ads

Ad360’s flagship service is Quick Ads, which powers entire programmatic ad campaigns in one click.  It really is that simple.  Just enter in your daily allotted budget (along with your location), and our programmatic ad software will automate and optimize your campaign across the web.  You are officially free from the grasp of tech giants!  Check out the power of programmatic ads today, and elevate your advertising strategy for Shopify.

Try for yourself the Ad360 App for Shopify with a 14-day Free Trial!