From Google Ads to social media and native advertising, almost every marketing channel offers a certain form of geofencing, seen as a means within regionally limited guerrilla marketing campaigns. What many marketing managers do not have on their radar, however, is the fact that even for account-based marketing, the procedure is increasingly turning out to be an ingenious move to address the desired target group.

Statistics on the use of Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Cortana from Microsoft or Siri from Apple, point to the same direction, namely the fact that the users have focused on a small, sharply defined area of application that is far below what was expected at the height of the hype two years ago.

Ultimately, the difference between successful mobile apps and those failing in the market is the quality of user experience. Hence, without a thorough understanding of factors like in-app behavior patterns and psychological underpinnings of your target users, you probably won’t be able to create a mobile product that surpasses expectations since user expectations constantly climbed higher with advancements in technology. They require ease of use, faster loading time, ability to complete a specific task within a minimum number of actions possible, and so on.

Everyone is talking about three related topics: (1) Internet of Things (IoT), (2) Machine to Machine (M2M) and (3) Industry 4.0, making the manufacturers of hardware and software for networking devices believe the entry into the Internet of Things can be done easily with guaranteed success.

Forrester wrote this headline in its report The Future Of Omnichannel Media Buying Is Programmatic more than 3 years ago, justifying the statement by explaining that people, processes, and technology issues stand in the way of omnichannel advertising.

Voice search is already pervasive and used every day, people ask for recipes, addresses, opening times or the weather occasionally; therefore, websites should be optimized accordingly. This means in practice, preparing information clearly, answering simple questions, and optimizing the loading time.

In the digital age, nobody wants to be overwhelmed with unspecified floods of offers anymore, rather everyone expects to be addressed individually with solutions that are perfectly tailored to their needs. Hence, the motto “a lot helps a lot” no longer applies for marketing activities today. While mass marketing has led to enormous wastage for decades, a new approach is now experiencing an upswing.

Smaato, an omnichannel digital ad-tech platform and ad server, recently announced their integration with cybersecurity company HUMAN, a cybersecurity company that protects enterprises from bot attacks to keep digital experiences human. Its ‘Human Verification Engine’ roots out fraud before it can impact the bottom line. In conjunction with Smaato’s own sophisticated automated systems, safety and security on the platform for publishers and marketers alike is guaranteed. The company’s digital ad-tech platform is a self-serve omnichannel monetization solution that offers publishers the ability to manage their entire ad stack in one place.

AnyMind Group announced the launch of Story Engine, a no-code feature on AnyManager that enables users to easily create, edit, manage and publish Web Stories, an open-source initiative by Google.

Since everyone is talking about neuromarketing, smaller retailers, in particular, often wonder what opportunities it holds for them. Well, basically it is using findings from the past that can now be put to practical use. If you want, you could for instance even consider the church as the inventor of neuromarketing since a visit to a church can explain quite well how multi-sensor technology works.

When looking at various channels such as desktop, mobile, advanced TV, in-game advertising, audio, digital out-of-home (DOOH) or social media, a different degree of maturity and usage can be noticed: while the desktop and mobile channels are almost completely developed for programmatic advertising, and the value for Advanced TV is by now around 50%, the other channels are less programmatic so far. Overall, however, programmatic, and data-based purchasing has established itself on all channels. Therefore, it can be assumed that the development of programmatic omnichannel campaigns will increase in the future.

Social media intelligence company Circus Social has rebranded as Radarr as it evolves to cater to an ever-increasing demand for predictive digital insights in Asia.

In the whitepaper Think your business offers an omnichannel experience? Think again!, its author Audrey William, Principal Advisor of ecosystm, explains why it is so crucial for businesses to engage with customers across multiple digital channels and be “proactive” instead of ‘’reactive’’ when trying to be omnipresent.

The evidence-based insights and consulting company, Kantar, just revealed the trends at play in the Asia Pacific media industry and what can be expected in the year to come. In doing so, Kantar is using its market-leading data, alongside evidence-based predictions and expert viewpoints to help media owners and brands build their plans for 2022 and beyond.