TREND WATCH:
Programmatic Premium Drives Higher Returns on
        Premium Media Investments




     Adrian Tompsett           Michael Greene              John Gray
VP, Business Development       Senior Analyst        SVP, Interactive Media
         DataXu            Forrester Research Inc.       Team Detroit




                                                        #ProgrammaticPremium
Agenda
Adrian Tompsett
• So, What is Programmatic Premium?
• A Look at the Verticals

Michael Greene
• Bringing Premium to Programmatic
• Win-Win for Advertisers and Publishers

John Gray
• Deep Dive: Ford Case Study

Key Take-Aways

Q&A

                                           #ProgrammaticPremium
So, What is Programmatic Premium?


                                Adrian Tompsett
        Vice President of Business Development

                                #ProgrammaticPremium
Media Was Blindly Bought and Sold




                                    #ProgrammaticPremium
RTB and Impression-level Decisioning
Changed the Market
Programmatic Premium: The Next Mega Trend


                         Imagine improving the effectiveness
                         of the global digital media budget
                         by 20% or more…

                         …by leveraging impression-level
                         decisioning and analytics
                         technologies which grew up on
                         exchange-traded media…

                         …and at the same time maintaining
                         publisher premium CPMs and
                         advertiser relationships...



                                        #ProgrammaticPremium
How Does Programmatic Premium Work?

  Traditional                  Programmatic Premium




 Consumer A                     Ad 1         Consumer A



                Ad

 Consumer B          Website    Ad 2         Consumer B




                                Ad 3
 Consumer C                                  Consumer C
A Look at the Verticals




                          #ProgrammaticPremium
CPG



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How CPG Branding is Bought Today


                                     70%           30%




                                     Target Audience




    $10.00 CPM + 70% Audience Density = $14.29 eCPM


                                            #ProgrammaticPremium
Optionality Drives Audience Density and
Consumer Engagement




                                     90%            10%




                                  Target Audience




      $10.00 CPM + 90% Audience Density = $11.11 eCPM

                                            #ProgrammaticPremium
FINANCIAL
                  SERVICES
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Upsell High-Value Customers While
Converting Your Best Prospects

                                                      Current
                                                       Retail
           Purchased Impression                     Customer Ad



                                                    Current SMB
                                                    Customer Ad



                                                    Retail Upsell
                                                         Ad



                                                     SMB Upsell
         Active Small                                   Ad
        Business Owner

                                                        Retail
                                                     Prospect Ad

                                  Verify audience
                                     segment
                                                        SMB
                                                     Prospect Ad




                                                      #ProgrammaticPremium
1st & 3rd Party Data Eliminates Waste on
 Guaranteed Buys




  Wasted
Opportunity



 Audience
 Reached




                                     #ProgrammaticPremium
Bringing Premium to Programmatic


Michael Greene, Senior Analyst




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Programmatic buying has
                                          come a long way
                                       But the transformation of media
                                        buying has only just begun.




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Programmatic Spend Continues to
 Grow…and Fast!


     Exchange-traded share of US                                 Exchange-traded share of US
        display spending 2011                                       display spending 2012




          13%                                                        18%

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                                                                       Advertising Forecast, 2011 to 2016 (US)
The Programmatic Buying Market Still Has
 Loads of Untapped Potential

  Growth has largely come on the backs of direct response.
   Brand advertising is the future growth engine for digital
   advertising, but programmatic buying to date has still been
   primarily DR-focused.
  Publisher participation has been mixed. Major publishers are
   participating in programmatic buys, but often “blind” and only as a
   backfill mechanism.
  Premium: waiting for the first move. Brand advertisers and
   premium publishers want to jump in, but are waiting for the other to
   make the first move.



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Getting past the chicken or the egg conundrum:
                    How do we bring premium to programmatic?




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Programmatic Buying has a Massive
 Opportunity to Provide Value for Brands




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But, Premium Publishers Remain Fairly
 Skeptical of Auction-Based Buying Models

  Premium publishers place high-value in buyer relationships.
   Sale-force-oriented organizations look to favor manual price
   negotiation.
  Publisher yield-curves look like two distinct markets. Pricing
   levels between direct-sold and exchange-based buys are
   shrinking, but a significant gap still remains for many publishers.
  Publishers slow to adopt a more holistic yield management
   strategy. Programmatic demand still siloed to poor quality
   inventory at end of waterfall, not integrated into broader inventory
   pool.



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Premium Publishers Can Benefit from the
    Move to Programmatic Selling



      Operational                              Better Advertiser                                    Re-focused Sales
                                                                       More Transparency
       Efficiency                               Performance                                              Efforts
• Diminish costs of                       • Empower buyers to        • Gain insight into what     • Gear sales around
  manual booking,                           leverage data and          buyers want in order         delivering bigger,
  trafficking, and                          insight to help ads on     to better price and          more effective
  optimization                              your site perform          package inventory            packages for
                                            better                     and audiences                advertisers, including
                                          • Grab share of wallet                                    components delivered
                                            by enabling them to                                     programmatically
                                            buy how they want to
                                            buy




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Getting to Premium: Programmatic is More
 than just Exchange-Based Bidding

           Two primary components of programmatic/exchange buying

                           Price Discovery and
                                                                   Workflow and Delivery
                               Negotiation
                  • Capability most closely                    • Massive opportunity for
                    associated with programmatic                 premium buyers and sellers –
                    buying                                       automate manual tasks
                  • Auction-based, impression-                 • Remove repetitive processing
                    level pricing model                          of multiple IOs for buyers and
                  • Bids/pricing dynamically                     sellers
                    optimized based upon                       • Allow for impression-level
                    expected value of impression                 audience-targeting and
                                                                 creative optimization
                                                               • Universal frequency capping
                                                                 and reporting
                                                               • Pricing can be auction-based
                                                                 or pre-negotiated


                               Efficient Pricing                  Efficient Transactions

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For Brands, the Programmatic Opportunity is
 Clear

  Bring intelligence to your audience targeting. Get beyond
   broad-based demos and efficiently target more granular, valuable
   audiences.
  Get your creative to work harder. Efficiently align audience,
   context, and creative to deliver maximum impact and ROAS.
  Make measurement actionable. Move beyond a purely post-
   campaign methodology that can only assess success or failure –
   not help optimize. Move towards a continuous measurement model
   that helps inform real-time buying decisions.




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                                                               #ProgrammaticPremium
Brands Need More than an Exchange Bidder,
 They Need a Consolidated Media Buying
 Platform
  Single workflow across screens and buy-types. Manage pre-
   negotiated and bid-based buys across display, video, and mobile
   from a single interface.
  Audience-based optimization. Optimize campaigns with
   frequency controls against granular audiences across publishers
   and screens.
  Unified insights. A single repository for campaign and audience
   insight that can easily translate into action.




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                                                               #ProgrammaticPremium
It’s not just conceptual:
                                      DataXu is making
                                Programmatic Premium real
                               today, benefitting both buyers
                                         and sellers




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Deep Dive: Ford Case Study


                                      John Gray
SVP, Director of Interactive Media, Team Detroit

                                #ProgrammaticPremium
Would you rather use premium and endemic digital media to…
…run a full-line creative?




                                  …select the nameplate, at
                                  the impression-level, based
                             OR   on the individual
                                  consumer?




                                             #ProgrammaticPremium
Case Study: The Challenge
Ford spends the majority of its digital budget on guaranteed buys on
premium and endemic sites.

Despite the importance of audience alignment, guaranteed media
wasn’t seeing the same efficiency gains as the exchange-traded media
buys through digital marketing management platforms.

                          So, Team Detroit partnered with DataXu to solve
                              that challenge…




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Case Study: The Hypothesis
Can data-driven, impression-level decisioning be used across a premium
fixed buy to run multiple campaigns, matching the right offer to the right
consumer to drive higher response rates?




                                                 Retargeting Ad




                         Purchased
                         Impression
                                                Audience Targeted
                                                       Ad




                                                   Creative
                                                  Optimization
                      Audience Identification


                                                                  #ProgrammaticPremium
Case Study: The Results

Ford realized a 20%
increase in
effectiveness and
consumer engagement                      20% Lift in Conversion Rate

Programmatic


                       Conversion Rate
Premium proves that
campaigns using
guaranteed media can
be maximized using
data-driven,
impression level
decisioning                               Baseline         Programmatic
                                                             Premium




                                                         #ProgrammaticPremium
What’s In It For Advertisers
 • Increased Campaign Effectiveness
 • Better Experience with Brand
 • Improved Consumer Engagement


What’s In It For Publishers
 • Higher Value CPMs
 • Stronger Relationships
 • Data-driven Technology to Help
 Sell Tier 1 Inventory
 More Efficiently




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Thank You!




     Adrian Tompsett           Michael Greene              John Gray
VP, Business Development       Senior Analyst        SVP, Interactive Media
         DataXu            Forrester Research Inc.       Team Detroit




                                                        #ProgrammaticPremium

DataXu: Programmatic Premium Webinar - June 7, 2012

  • 1.
    TREND WATCH: Programmatic PremiumDrives Higher Returns on Premium Media Investments Adrian Tompsett Michael Greene John Gray VP, Business Development Senior Analyst SVP, Interactive Media DataXu Forrester Research Inc. Team Detroit #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 2.
    Agenda Adrian Tompsett • So,What is Programmatic Premium? • A Look at the Verticals Michael Greene • Bringing Premium to Programmatic • Win-Win for Advertisers and Publishers John Gray • Deep Dive: Ford Case Study Key Take-Aways Q&A #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 3.
    So, What isProgrammatic Premium? Adrian Tompsett Vice President of Business Development #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 4.
    Media Was BlindlyBought and Sold #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 5.
    RTB and Impression-levelDecisioning Changed the Market
  • 6.
    Programmatic Premium: TheNext Mega Trend Imagine improving the effectiveness of the global digital media budget by 20% or more… …by leveraging impression-level decisioning and analytics technologies which grew up on exchange-traded media… …and at the same time maintaining publisher premium CPMs and advertiser relationships... #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 7.
    How Does ProgrammaticPremium Work? Traditional Programmatic Premium Consumer A Ad 1 Consumer A Ad Consumer B Website Ad 2 Consumer B Ad 3 Consumer C Consumer C
  • 8.
    A Look atthe Verticals #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 9.
    CPG 9 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited © 2012 DataXu, Inc. Privileged & Confidential
  • 10.
    How CPG Brandingis Bought Today 70% 30% Target Audience $10.00 CPM + 70% Audience Density = $14.29 eCPM #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 11.
    Optionality Drives AudienceDensity and Consumer Engagement 90% 10% Target Audience $10.00 CPM + 90% Audience Density = $11.11 eCPM #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 12.
    FINANCIAL SERVICES 12 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 13.
    Upsell High-Value CustomersWhile Converting Your Best Prospects Current Retail Purchased Impression Customer Ad Current SMB Customer Ad Retail Upsell Ad SMB Upsell Active Small Ad Business Owner Retail Prospect Ad Verify audience segment SMB Prospect Ad #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 14.
    1st & 3rdParty Data Eliminates Waste on Guaranteed Buys Wasted Opportunity Audience Reached #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 15.
    Bringing Premium toProgrammatic Michael Greene, Senior Analyst 15 © 2009 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 2012 #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 16.
    Programmatic buying has come a long way But the transformation of media buying has only just begun. 16 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 17.
    Programmatic Spend Continuesto Grow…and Fast! Exchange-traded share of US Exchange-traded share of US display spending 2011 display spending 2012 13% 18% 17 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited Source: Forrester Research Online Display Advertising Forecast, 2011 to 2016 (US)
  • 18.
    The Programmatic BuyingMarket Still Has Loads of Untapped Potential  Growth has largely come on the backs of direct response. Brand advertising is the future growth engine for digital advertising, but programmatic buying to date has still been primarily DR-focused.  Publisher participation has been mixed. Major publishers are participating in programmatic buys, but often “blind” and only as a backfill mechanism.  Premium: waiting for the first move. Brand advertisers and premium publishers want to jump in, but are waiting for the other to make the first move. 18 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 19.
    Getting past thechicken or the egg conundrum: How do we bring premium to programmatic? 19 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 20.
    Programmatic Buying hasa Massive Opportunity to Provide Value for Brands 20 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 21.
    But, Premium PublishersRemain Fairly Skeptical of Auction-Based Buying Models  Premium publishers place high-value in buyer relationships. Sale-force-oriented organizations look to favor manual price negotiation.  Publisher yield-curves look like two distinct markets. Pricing levels between direct-sold and exchange-based buys are shrinking, but a significant gap still remains for many publishers.  Publishers slow to adopt a more holistic yield management strategy. Programmatic demand still siloed to poor quality inventory at end of waterfall, not integrated into broader inventory pool. 21 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 22.
    Premium Publishers CanBenefit from the Move to Programmatic Selling Operational Better Advertiser Re-focused Sales More Transparency Efficiency Performance Efforts • Diminish costs of • Empower buyers to • Gain insight into what • Gear sales around manual booking, leverage data and buyers want in order delivering bigger, trafficking, and insight to help ads on to better price and more effective optimization your site perform package inventory packages for better and audiences advertisers, including • Grab share of wallet components delivered by enabling them to programmatically buy how they want to buy 22 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 23.
    Getting to Premium:Programmatic is More than just Exchange-Based Bidding Two primary components of programmatic/exchange buying Price Discovery and Workflow and Delivery Negotiation • Capability most closely • Massive opportunity for associated with programmatic premium buyers and sellers – buying automate manual tasks • Auction-based, impression- • Remove repetitive processing level pricing model of multiple IOs for buyers and • Bids/pricing dynamically sellers optimized based upon • Allow for impression-level expected value of impression audience-targeting and creative optimization • Universal frequency capping and reporting • Pricing can be auction-based or pre-negotiated Efficient Pricing Efficient Transactions 23 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 24.
    For Brands, theProgrammatic Opportunity is Clear  Bring intelligence to your audience targeting. Get beyond broad-based demos and efficiently target more granular, valuable audiences.  Get your creative to work harder. Efficiently align audience, context, and creative to deliver maximum impact and ROAS.  Make measurement actionable. Move beyond a purely post- campaign methodology that can only assess success or failure – not help optimize. Move towards a continuous measurement model that helps inform real-time buying decisions. 24 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 25.
    Brands Need Morethan an Exchange Bidder, They Need a Consolidated Media Buying Platform  Single workflow across screens and buy-types. Manage pre- negotiated and bid-based buys across display, video, and mobile from a single interface.  Audience-based optimization. Optimize campaigns with frequency controls against granular audiences across publishers and screens.  Unified insights. A single repository for campaign and audience insight that can easily translate into action. 25 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 26.
    It’s not justconceptual: DataXu is making Programmatic Premium real today, benefitting both buyers and sellers 26 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 27.
    Deep Dive: FordCase Study John Gray SVP, Director of Interactive Media, Team Detroit #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 28.
    Would you ratheruse premium and endemic digital media to…
  • 29.
    …run a full-linecreative? …select the nameplate, at the impression-level, based OR on the individual consumer? #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 30.
    Case Study: TheChallenge Ford spends the majority of its digital budget on guaranteed buys on premium and endemic sites. Despite the importance of audience alignment, guaranteed media wasn’t seeing the same efficiency gains as the exchange-traded media buys through digital marketing management platforms. So, Team Detroit partnered with DataXu to solve that challenge… 30 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 31.
    Case Study: TheHypothesis Can data-driven, impression-level decisioning be used across a premium fixed buy to run multiple campaigns, matching the right offer to the right consumer to drive higher response rates? Retargeting Ad Purchased Impression Audience Targeted Ad Creative Optimization Audience Identification #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 32.
    Case Study: TheResults Ford realized a 20% increase in effectiveness and consumer engagement 20% Lift in Conversion Rate Programmatic Conversion Rate Premium proves that campaigns using guaranteed media can be maximized using data-driven, impression level decisioning Baseline Programmatic Premium #ProgrammaticPremium
  • 33.
    What’s In ItFor Advertisers • Increased Campaign Effectiveness • Better Experience with Brand • Improved Consumer Engagement What’s In It For Publishers • Higher Value CPMs • Stronger Relationships • Data-driven Technology to Help Sell Tier 1 Inventory More Efficiently 33 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
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    34 © 2012 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 35.
    Thank You! Adrian Tompsett Michael Greene John Gray VP, Business Development Senior Analyst SVP, Interactive Media DataXu Forrester Research Inc. Team Detroit #ProgrammaticPremium

Editor's Notes

  • #5 Taking a quick trip back to when I joined DataXu in 2009 to lead our business development effortsThe term DSP didn’t even exist or if it did, no one knew what you were talking aboutThe majority of media buys transacted with ad networks and publishers on an IO by IO basisIn either case, there was virtually no transparency to the buyers, and mixed bags of impressions were bought in buckets of thousandsThis would be similar to buying a paper bag of tomatoes at the market; some tomatoes best for salads some for spaghetti sauce and some were frankly rotten and better off thrown away.We have come an awful long way since then…Jump to next slide
  • #6 RTB and impression level decisioning changed the whole landscape; VC investors poured money into the space and multiple technology vendors built companies focused on the evaluation and valuation of each impression with respect to advertiser goals.According to the IDC, in 2010 this market was $352m, in 2011 just over $1b, this year reaching almost $2b and estimated to become a $5b market by 2015.And why the rapid growth? Advertisers reaped the benefits of transparency and analytics that goes part in parcel when you are buying advertising at the impression level – cherry picking the best impressions that suit each marketers specific goalsOptimization (previously done manually) could now be done in real time; and marketers could gain real time insights to what is going on; rich third party overlays, onboarding offline CRM data delivered better results and incredible insights into consumers. This is something that we call demand sensing at DataXu – dynamically allocating budgets on the fly where we see ‘pockets of demand’. Same time – impression level decisioning was limited largely to exchange traded media. While on the one hand buyers love the massive reach and huge efficiencies possible – the inventory available is remnant. Most publishers continue to segment their inventory fairly crudle – I have tier 1 which is sold directly by my sales team and the rest is Tier 2 which I monetize either via ad networks or into the exchangesAdditionally, while these numbers are huge, they are dwarfed by the overall US online ad spend estimated at over $36 billion this year growing to almost $50B in 2015. Working closely with clients like John Gray at TD we began to ponder the question – why can’t we apply the same technology, impression level decisioning and analytics to guaranteed media buys? Wouldn’t that opportunity dwarf the size of optimizing exchange traded media? Flip slide
  • #7 And thus the introduction of Programmatic Premium. Programmatic Premium allows for a single system of optimization, measurement and analysis, creating a rich framework for advertisers tounderstand their consumer, and for publishers to better monetize their inventory.Let’s run the numbers on 2012A 20% lift on exchange traded and ad network buys gives you $400mThat same lift on guaranteed media drives over $6b worth of valueI mean $400m isn’t cool. You know what’s cool – how about $6B dollars?The only downside I see for Programmatic Premium from my perspective it the lack of an easy acronym that doesn’t make people snicker.FOR ADVERTISERSDeliver improved efficiency and ROI across the entire media plan; either from delivering more CPA conversion type metrics or through the achievement of better audience density metrics as measured by eCPM against target audienceUnderstand globally the behavior of your consumers across all media and channels.Consolidate intelligence, attribution & reporting between exchange traded and direct buysFOR PUBLISHERSMaintain premium CPM’sFull control and transparencyNo impact to existing relationships of workflowDeliver more benefit and insights to advertisers
  • #11 Effective or eCPM is: CPM divided by percent of audience densityPremium Food PublisherIndividual food or beverage product brand under a F&B advertiser
  • #12 Leverage data-backed, real-time decisioning to serve relevant messages at the consumer-levelMeet your goals with multiple optimization model to drive actions, clicks or distributionIncrease audience density and improve consumer experience Reduce waste and improve ROI on direct media investments
  • #14 For financial services folks – in our experience most tend to run their performance buys via ad networks and reserve the branding budgets to run on endemic sites and other guaranteed media. With programmatic premium, this distinction no longer matters. Performance and branding buys taking advantage of the same expensive media enable marketers to take advantage of every opportunity. If a consumer has just half filled out a credit card offer and abandoned – hit them with an offer to drive them to close. If a consumer is already a client – deliver a cross sell upsell offer to increase customer lifetime value.
  • #15 And in closing – programmatic premium is an incredible opportunity to drive efficiencies across the entire media plan – not only delivering on operational efficiencies through automated targeting and optimization, but also improving performance against whatever metrics are most important to a brand.We are proud to be the only company in our space to not only be talking about programmatic premium, but delivering it for real customers. John Gray will bring us home with a real case study and experience working with DataXu on over 10 campaigns to date.Handing things over to Michael for the Forrester view on programmatic premium.
  • #16 Suggest Bringing Programmatic to Premium
  • #32 Programmatic Premium enabled Ford to leverage the real-time decisioning and analytics power of DataXu’s DX3 digital marketing management platform. Team Detroit worked with strategic partner DataXu to answer the following question: “Can data-driven, impression-level decisioning be used across a premium fixed buy to run multiple campaigns, matching the right offer to the right consumer to generate a higher level of response and engagement?” Apply impression-level decisioning to 15 campaigns, run across endemic automotive sites – hotbeds of “in-market” shoppers
  • #33 The answer is yes, with Programmatic Premium. Programmatic Premium enabled Ford to leverage the real-time decisioning and analytics power of DataXu’s DX3 digital marketing management platform. Fifteen campaigns were run across endemic automotive sites – hotbeds of “in-market” shoppers. As a baseline control, a portion of the media was run using Ford’s traditional approach – a series of messaging concepts, in random rotation, based on assumptions and historical performance. The rest of the media was optimized using the Programmatic Premium approach. The DX3 system evaluated the audience data and attributes for each impression to distinguish, for instance, someone researching hybrid vehicles, from an F-150 intender, from a Mustang buyer, and delivered not only the creative with the most relevant make and model but also messaging that correlated to the consumer’s position in the purchase funnel.  ResultsThe Programmatic Premium approach implemented for Ford produced a 20% increase in effectiveness and consumer engagement. Programmatic Premium proves that campaigns using guaranteed media can be maximized using data-driven, impression level decisioning. Ultimately, the strategic approach will deliver increased effectiveness and greater returns for Ford’s largest media spend, and transform the way big brand advertisers will run their campaigns.
  • #34 John Gray -- Key Take-AwaysLeverage data-backed, real-time decisioning to serve relevant messages at the consumer-levelAdvertisers, meet your goals with multiple optimization models to drive actions, clicks or distributionIncrease audience density and improve consumer experience Reduce waste and improve ROI on direct media investments