In our latest article published on Yahoo! Finance and Martech Cube, about Digiday selecting Genius Monkey, a programmatic ad platform and Meta-DSP, as a finalist for their 2022 Technology Awards. Genius Monkey is a finalist in the “Best Measurement Solution” category. The Digiday Technology Awards “recognize the technology modernizing media and marketing. Digiday has honored industry-leading work from Adobe, SpotX, Twitch and Piano.” Winners will be announced virtually on November 17.

AdExchanger has selected Genius Monkey as one of its finalists for the 2022 AdExchanger Awards in the award category of Best Account Support by a Technology Company. The AdExchanger awards program celebrates excellence in digital marketing and advertising. Other finalists include Disney, Samsung, iHeartMedia, and more. Winners will be announced on October 17 at the AdExchanger awards gala in New York City. In our latest article published on AP News, Yahoo!

You’ve probably heard it a million times—the best tips and tricks to make your business better. But we’re here to speak from experience—10+ years of it—and let you in on the things we’ve learned about outperforming competitors. It’s more than just keeping tabs on what the other guys are doing. It’s more than using the word “innovation,” rebranding and creating a new logo, or even offering cheaper services. We’ve been voted one of the best digital marketing platform companies in the country, and our clients and results will show you that we really do know what we’re doing.

A great marketing campaign is nothing without the ability to track and visualize it through a full stack of reporting and attribution readily available at the advertiser’s hands. You can have the best visuals and messaging in the world, but if you can’t track performance, the campaign is virtually useless. At Genius Monkey, every client receives access to their very own personalized client dashboard. This is their one-stop spot to track and view all campaign data.

We sat down with our Creative Director at Genius Monkey, Damon Reine, and asked him about his work, design tips, advertising secrets, and more. Here’s what he had to say: Q: What does being creative director entail at Genius Monkey? Damon: The day-to-day position entails managing and creating the visual and creative voice and personality of the company. We’re an ad tech company—we don’t have a product on the shelf—so it’s important our consumers come to digest us through advertising, the website, social media, and more.

Podcasts have continued to skyrocket in 2022, hitting over $1 billion in ad revenue. According to a report by IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers, podcasts are growing twice as fast as the internet advertising market as a whole. Before recently, advertisers could only purchase audio directly through Pandora, iHeartRadio and Spotify, but there was no way to attribute lift or conversions in doing so. In the past two years, Genius Monkey has made it possible to track these via impression-level tracking from knowing when someone hears an ad and converts afterwards.

If you check your phone right now, how many apps do you have for a loyalty program or retail store? We’re talking about everything from the Target and Kohl’s app to your favorite restaurant’s rewards app—who doesn’t want a free burger on their birthday? Most big-name businesses and retailers have an app, and if they don’t, they’re most likely falling behind or missing out on important data. AdExchanger reported that retailers are “investing heavily in first-party data assets (aka their loyalty and membership programs) and in first-party data vehicles like retail media platforms.

When we entered 2020, nobody could predict what was going to happen. And nobody could foresee that the next two years would be full of immense change, online pandemonium, and masks. Don’t worry, this won’t be yet another pandemic article. Instead of focusing on COVID-19, Omicron, and worldwide effects of the virus, we want to focus on how the pandemic has affected marketing and advertising specifically. As the world changed, so did consumer habits.

Many agencies try to keep everything in-house with a self-serve digital advertising model, but they’re left with depleted time and resources. In our latest article published on Yahoo! Finance and MarketWatch, read how a fully managed service brings in a powerful advertising technology partner to help you reach all of your goals, without the added stress on your shoulders. In a day and age where hiring experienced marketing experts is proving more difficult, it’s no wonder why agencies are turning more often to fully managed platforms—it just makes sense.

The downfall of linear and traditional marketing has given way to new marketing mediums, such as CTV and Programmatic audio, which continue to rise. Television, streaming, YouTube, and other online media platforms continue to get more use as our lives become more diverse, which has allowed marketers and media companies to reach, track and target audiences in new and exciting ways. We are excited to bring you quarterly insights into significant marketing mediums and vertical trends Genius Monkey data has shown.