Deep Learning

RTB House is delighted to announce that it has won the award for Best Overall Technology for Programmatic Trading (buy side) at this year’s The Drum Digital Advertising Awards. The category was incredibly competitive with shortlisted companies including Sharethrough, Xandr, Cognitiv and AdTheorent.

Each of us experiences contact with artificial intelligence every day. We reach for its possibilities spontaneously and often without realizing that it is to artificial intelligence that we owe the comfort of life and a number of conveniences. Who doesn’t use Gmail, Google Translate, a smart personal assistant or Netflix recommendations? We also watch dozens of ads every day, which are often selected for us by algorithms. How has the evolution of Artificial Intelligence progressed and impacted our lives over the course of history?

Worried about runaway video campaign costs? You’re not alone, thankfully there are ways to keep the costs under control.

In a recent article, we looked at how a deeper data-driven approach brings higher quality targeting opportunities. We looked at Billy Beane, legendary GM of the Oakland A’s baseball team, and showed how his fresh thinking and belief in data revolutionized the sport.

Along with addressing the question of what retargeting is, we’re going to dip into baseball one more time to explain what exactly those “targeting opportunities” are. Let’s talk about how you get three strikes for every customer, and three big opportunities for success.

This is not a sports blog, but the story of Billy Beane and the record-breaking 2002 Oakland A’s streak of 20 consecutive wins which actually has a few things in common with running successful data-driven marketing campaigns.

They are both stories of finding value in data that others are not able to uncover or effectively utilize for competitive advantage.