#Real Time Optimization

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.

Do you understand the difference between data and insights? Are you really understanding your data, or do you have surface-level knowledge that can be improved? In an Adweek article by Anastasia Leng, she warns against doing the same thing multiple times without ever “validating if it’s having the intended result.” Leng says many have easy access to metrics without the right tools to differentiate them. Simply put, just because something can be measured doesn’t mean that data should make the decisions for you.

You’re sitting at home, having a conversation with someone about a restaurant or a new piece of clothing you want to buy. Two minutes later, you see an advertisement on your phone for that same exact restaurant or clothing store. How does your phone know what you’re saying? Is there a microphone, constantly listening for buzzwords and then rapidly bringing you ads for those things you talk about? Advertising these days can be pretty advanced, but when you look at life in general, everything is very interconnected.

When you think of popular brands, what are the first that come to mind? What makes a brand successful—is it their popularity, their sales, or their humor? These days, for a brand to be well-known (or even noticed), they need to have an online presence. In Celtra’s Brand Excellence playbook, they said it best: “Brands that want to supercharge their growth increasingly turn to digital marketing, as evidenced by double-digit increases in the percentage of digital advertising spend out of total media ad spend every year since 2019.

How do you get the right message to the right person? With targeting, of course. But once they’ve come to your site or clicked on your ad, the real targeting begins. It’s not enough to “lead a horse to water”—in digital advertising, you need to know exactly what type of water that horse likes, when they drink water, what kind of supplements they need in their water, and more.

Supply-chain shortages can really frustrate the flow of business. In the past year, we’ve seen more shortages than ever. According to CNBC, the supply-chain blockages in the production system, “have affected a variety of sectors . . . ranging from shortages of electronics and autos to difficulties in the supplies of meat, medicines and household products.” But shortages in the supply chain don’t mean you have to sit and twiddle your thumbs.