Featured on HostingAdvice.com, Jordan Sporgis held an interview with Genius Monkey COO Travis Champ to discuss how Genius Monkey has remained one of the top programmatic options in the space by leveraging data for unparalleled insight into the programmatic journey. Check out some of the highlights here or see more on HostingAdvice. On the problems modern advertisers face in digital marketing: “All too often in the digital realm, advertisers are going to several different networks or DSPs to try and run their ads and then have to learn the nuances of each, set up individual campaigns in each, go through reporting for each individually, and it just takes way too much time and creates margin for error,” said Travis Champ… “Whether the advertiser is a direct brand or agency, managing many different campaigns across many different DSPs gets overwhelming quickly.

Wow, what a year; 2023 was one for the books for digital media buyers. We saw the introduction of Netflix OTT placements, the last of lingering Cookies going away, the new growth of DOOH, and the ever expanding reach of display ads. Staying true to form, Genius Monkey is here to dive deep into platform user’s data to give you a quick overview of some interesting trends observed throughout the year.

In early 2023, a startup called Telly boldly declared its intention to revolutionize the television industry. Many took notice because the founder and CEO is Ilya Pozin, the former CEO of the wildly successful Pluto TV streaming platform. Even more stand-out was the novel approach to selling televisions: giving them away at no charge. The basic premise is to sell ad space on the TV that subsidizes the cost of the panel itself.

Gen Z is growing up; they’ve been the transition generation for some time, and now more than half of them have reached adulthood. As their purchasing potential grows, it’s time to take notice of how, on what, and where the iGen spends their money so you can know how to better speak to their wants and needs. Let’s take a look at the data so you understand the youngest generation of adults and how their buying brains think.

Programmatic advertising has been on the rise ever since Genius Monkey helped coin the term in 2010. It’s no easy one-size-fits-all solution, though; a good programmatic campaign involves a lot of work with careful research, a thought-out strategy, and – the topic of today – a strong paid search plan. Travis Champ, COO of Genius Monkey, commented: “Paid search is so important that Genius Monkey will often tell clients to start – at the very least – a branded PPC campaign prior to using our platform.

If you live in the U.S. and have been on the internet this month, there’s a good chance you’ve been on YouTube. The video platform hosts more than 2.7 billion active users, and no platform can get that popular without seeing its fair share of controversies. Lately, YouTube has been making some not-so-great headlines that demonstrate the importance of knowing the entire customer journey in your programmatic campaigns. Let’s take a closer look at impression tracking and what we can learn about it from YouTube.

Genius Monkey is teaming up with StatSocial, a platform that leverages social profile audience data to give users next-level insights into their engaged audience, their affinities and other persona profiles they associate with – allowing Genius Monkey platform users to have thousands of more data points on their audience to further optimize campaigns and overall marketing efforts. In our latest article published on AP News, MarketWatch, and Seeking Alpha we explain how the Genius Monkey data panel is expanding with over 85,000 new customer attributes to track, including hobbies, education, preferred media, personality types, and much more.

Genius Monkey is proud to announce a collaboration with Experian to integrate with the company’s Consumer Sync technology. The integration allows the Genius Monkey platform to connect offline and online data, in a privacy-safe manner, and derive meaningful insights to reach more than 1.5B connected IDs that have been active and addressable in the last 60 days. The effort aims to amplify Genius Monkey’s attribution capabilities, enabling a more comprehensive view of ad effectiveness for marketers.

Getting clicks on your ad can be exciting, but a savvy marketer knows that a click isn’t too impressive on its own – it’s conversions that really count. That said, it is a necessary stepping stone: the moment a customer enters or moves along the sales funnel. A click is a good thing because it represents a consumer willing to take action… or at least it can. Some are better than others, and if you want to get conversions, you need to make sure you’re getting the right kind of clicks.

It isn’t every day that we get brand-new social media that’s immediately worth paying attention to. Yet here we are; Instagram (and therefore Meta) have released the new app Threads, a text-based feed that’s been drumming up a lot of buzz. But lots of social apps appear, stir up interest, and die; does Threads have the staying power to become a major player? Let’s go over the important details: