SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 12/20/12 — , a leader in programmatic advertising, today announced the trends it believes will shape the advertising industry in 2013. Based on conversations with brands and media agencies, Founder and CEO Gurbaksh Chahal foresees consolidation among ad tech companies and maturation of advertising strategies by brands that begin looking beyond vanity metrics to capitalize on mobile ad receptiveness and multichannel viewing habits.
Against that backdrop, RadiumOne-s top predictions for 2013 include:
In recent years, online advertising has become an overcrowded and fragmented industry. As predicted by Luma Partners & Barclays, the market is headed for consolidation as strategic acquirers attempt to differentiate their offerings based on the latest and greatest ad tech innovations. Some of these incumbent acquirers will look to extend their existing offerings and become a one-stop resource for advertising spend, while others will move into the sector by acquiring entire digital platforms outright.
Mobile has become an increasingly user-friendly experience over the last few years with the proliferation and evolution of the smartphone. According to a recent conducted by RadiumOne, 47% of Generation C (18-34 year olds) respondents indicated they have clicked on a mobile ad in the past 3 months, with 54% percent making a purchase from their mobile device in the last 6 months. Backed by the power of LTE and 4G, next-gen mobile networks will support even more robust creative online experiences for brands.
With the over-abundance of unstructured data in the form of tweets, likes, comments, and mentions, brands have been hard-pressed to determine how to measure social metrics in a meaningful way. While tweets and likes measure engagement with a brand, advertisers have yet to determine how these social indicators deliver actionable data that drive ROI. In 2013, advertisers and brands that can translate engagement into customer acquisitions will emerge as the leaders.
According to a recent Google study, 77 percent of respondents use another device while watching TV, and 90 percent use multiple screens sequentially to accomplish a single task. These multichannel viewing habits present an untapped opportunity for advertisers to develop and optimize cross-platform campaigns. For example, television and other premium ads can be used to increase overall awareness and interest coupled with digital, banner, and mobile ads that pick up where these left off with a targeted call-to-action. In 2013, RadiumOne expects multichannel ad campaigns will become the norm, accompanied by a corresponding increase in technologies that help brands quickly evaluate, engage and measure multichannel performance.
With over 1 billion users on Facebook-s platform, RadiumOne expects the social media giant will start charging users for access to its popular newsfeed feature, as the noise to signal ratio widens. If this occurs, vertical social networks that specialize in specific industries or utilize niche social technologies will emerge as winners in the next year. Consumers will move away from generic social sharing platforms and gravitate towards more specialized, category specific venues to connect and share with friends. We-ve already seen this with Instagram for unfiltered pictures, Tumblr for microblogging, and Pinterest for photo inspired collections.
“During the past decade I-ve seen numerous changes in the digital advertising industry, and next year will be no exception as brands push the envelope and seek new ways to connect more fluidly and intelligently with consumers,” said Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO of RadiumOne. “The increased attention on mobile, consolidation in the sector, and emergence of vertical social networks are among a handful of the game-changing events that will take place in 2013.”
RadiumOne is changing the face of online advertising through a unique combination of programmatic buying, proprietary data, patent-pending intelligence algorithms, and multi-channel capabilities. Each month, we engage directly with 700 million unique consumers and monitor over 10 billion sharing events. Within milliseconds, we can filter this data through our ShareGraph intelligence layer, build real-time audiences for our brands, and target ads across the more than 25 billion real-time impressions we see each day. Spanning the Web, Mobile Web, and Facebook, we offer advertisers the ability to reach the right consumer at the right time, no matter where they might be. Founded by online advertising pioneer Gurbaksh Chahal and based in San Francisco, RadiumOne has offices across the US and Europe. To learn more about RadiumOne, please visit .
Richard L. Tso
Barokas Public Relations for RadiumOne
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