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Tuesday 17 December 2019

Brands Must Embrace Moment Marketing - Here is Why


Moment marketing (MM) involves communicating the right message at the right time to the right audience. It requires a brand to be right there when people are most likely to engage with its message or advertisement.

It works by building connections between offline events and online media at the right moment. Offline events can be anything such as a TV ad, a festive event, a football tournament, etc. For example, when a person watches a TV ad and reacts to it by searching on his smartphone, then if a brand presents itself to him with the right ad in that exact moment, there is a great chance of his engagement with the advertisement.

TV Ad Sync
For implementing MM, brands need to focus on what is trending or is expected to be trending among their target audiences and look for the right time to connect with the customers in the right context.
A great instance of moment marketing that can be cited is a tweet made by Oreo in 2013 when a power outage happened during the Super Bowl. Oreo tweeted – “Power out? No problem. You can still dunk in the dark”. As the message was tweeted at the perfect moment, it immediately received thousands of retweets.

MM is embraced by brands because of the following reasons –

It increases user engagement with a brand
A person’s engagement with a brand is apt to increase with tv ad sync as it receives communication from the brand at the right moment when he is most likely to pay attention to it.

It boosts brand awareness
As more people react to the messages when they are delivered at the right time and in the right context, brand awareness is easily spread.

It boosts overall marketing results
When moment marketing is used simultaneously with other forms of marketing, a brand achieves better results from its marketing campaigns.


Moment Marketing
It provides a competitive edge
Moment marketing helps in fetching new customers to a brand and at the same time improves the perception of a brand in people’s minds.

MM offers a great tool for marketers to capitalize on. Brands are increasingly deploying moment marketing as a strategic marketing tool to complement their core marketing campaigns.

How Parallels by SilverPush can help brands effectively engage consumers at the moment
Parallels seamlessly sync social, display and video advertising campaigns to real-life moments and events such as TV advertising, weather, sports, pollution, trending topics and more. Enabling an enhanced connection with the consumers around the events that are most interesting to them, at the moment they happen.

With live sports sync, Parallels automatically triggers digital ads based on various live sports moments, runs creatives and messages contextualized to these moments, maximizing rand exposure and value of sports sponsorships.

With TV ad sync, Parallels helps in recapturing audience attention and capitalize on cross-screen behavior through real-time syncing of TV ads with digital ads, on social, display and video platforms, across digital screens.

Other live triggers include weather and pollution levels. Parallels are used weather and pollution API triggers for in different states, cities and zip codes. And include data such as temperature, humidity, weather forecast, AQI, pollen levels, an ongoing flu epidemic and much more.


Monday 16 December 2019

Industry Gold Standards SilverPush Has Won in 2019




2019 has been an amazing year at SilverPush. Awards, recognition, and accolades have come our way while we continued to serve our clients. Our technology continued to make a difference in the world of digital campaigns and online media for some of the largest brands globally. Join us as we look back at the ride that 2019 has been for us.

MMA APAC: Gold In The Cross-Media Category

Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global mobile trade association, in fact, the only one of its kind is a hub for marketers, sellers and technological innovators in the media industry. MMA Smarties acknowledges the best brands, agencies, and tech enablers that exceed expectations by driving business growth via mobile campaigns.
Unilever Wall’s and Mindshare Indonesia won the gold in the Cross Media category for their Wall’s Gold Spirit campaign celebrating national sports heroes, powered by SilverPush’s tv ad sync — Parallels.
The platform enabled a data drive strategy to deliver highly targeted ads against relevant content around Indonesia’s sports heroes and Wall’s official brand ambassadors. Every time these heroes would hit a Gold for the country, ads featuring contextual messages were delivered across digital platforms to reach the relevant audience.

MMA Smarties India: Silver in Innovation and Product and Services Launch


Silver in Innovation

Thumbs Up, a leader in the soft beverages industry in India was targeting millennials for its new 2019 variant- Thums Up Charged in Summer. Their concerns about brand safety and engagement optimization were resolved with SilverPush’s Mirrors Platform. The AI-powered in-video ads platform helped the brand reach its most relevant audience.

Silver in Product and Services launch

As a part of the Amazing Moment Marketing Campaign, SilverPush was the technological enabler of Madison Media working on Asian Paints’ Clean the Air campaign. With the rising concerns around AQI, the campaign revolved around creating hyper-localized messaging synced with real-time AQI levels. With quality insights delivered at the right time, SilverPush informed with and showcased 1000+ region-specific informative communications.

WARC Media Awards: Bronze for Effective Use of Tech

Every year, WARC recognizes brands that excel in communication planning, driving positive business results via online channels globally through WARC Media Awards. At 2019 WARC Media Awards, SilverPush was awarded bronze for a campaign for Unilever’s Breeze in the category — Effective Use of Tech.
With Breeze, SilverPush leveraged TV sync for Unilever Philippines. With a customer base of housewives aged between 22 to 44 years, SilverPush identified that the buyers were becoming increasingly social media savvy and therefore are prone to multi-screening. The audience was targeted and retargeted with paid advertisements through creating a tv ad sync between the brand’s TV commercials and digital video ads across social platforms.

Festival of Media Awards (FOMA) Asia Pacific Awards: Bronze for Best in Technology

 
Festival of Media Awards is a celebration of brilliant media thinking across the Asia Pacific region. The jury comprises of a vast network of creative thinkers and innovators in the industry. At FOMA APAC 2019, Breeze earned a bronze for the category — Best in Technology.
Moreover, collaborating with Mindshare was a unique learning experience that has added immense value to our technology.

Other Campaigns That Have Won Accolades and Recognition

  • Won Bronze at MMA South Africa for KFC bucket campaign for #TVtomobile work in the Cross Media category
  • Shortlisted at The Wires APAC Awards for the multi-screen sync platform as the Best Marketing Technology solution
  • Nomination at Drum Digital Awards APAC for Best Cross-Platform Campaign on behalf of Rexona
  • Shortlisted for MMA Smarties Vietnam in the mobile Mobile Video and Innovation categories
  • Shortlisted at Effie MENA awards in the Data-Driven and Healthcare-OTC categories for Sanofi’s Telfast

More About Our Winning Campaigns

Breeze

While TV advertising remains a key channel for information distribution in South Asia, women displayed indifference and lack of interest during TV commercial breaks, displaying a cross-screen behavior — paying more attention to social channels. The campaign overcame the clutter and increased brand engagement within the target audience through real-time, TV ad sync with digital advertising.

KFC
KFC’s launch of a new popcorn chicken flavor created the right buzz with SilverPush’s AI Moment Marketing powered contextual targeting ad placement platform — Mirrors. Thirty contextual triggers were identified through Mirrors’ unique capability of detecting faces, logos, objects, scenes, actions and emotions in a streaming video. Coupled with customized creatives, KFC was able to target the right audience, as they engaged with their interests on YouTube. The campaign achieved a VTR of 35 percent; a direct increase of 10 percent against agency benchmark of 25 percent.

Thumbs Up
Thumbs Up leveraged contextual ads placements to target millennial buyers engaged in adventure and thrill-seeking activities. For the campaign, SilverPush contextually targeted users consuming video content around extreme adventure sports, through AI-powered object and emotion detection capabilities. This maximized brand engagement exactly at the moment consumers were engaging with their interests, and not based on past viewing habits.
By seamless brand integration through Mirrors, the campaign gained a VTR of 35 percent with a decrease in CPV of 48 percent.

Oreo
SilverPush partnered with Oreo for their special edition Spider-Man themed pack for Contextual targeting. Spiderman themed content was identified with Mirrors technology enabling the brand to unlock the audience engaged in such content at that right moment. Spanning across four weeks, the campaign directly contributed to sales, leading to 38 percent higher sales for Oreo.
In 2019, we have made a huge difference in the advertising industry. And in 2020, we intend to further expand our product portfolio and help brands understand and reach their customers, like never before.


Thursday 5 December 2019

Is TikTok’s Advertising Potential Worth The Brand Safety Risk?



Let’s be honest. TikTok has been on a roller coaster ride since its inception.

Bytedance’s TikTok, currently valued at $75 Bn, has witnessed admiration, neglection, rejection, and dejection in a tight timeframe.

Do you remember Musical.ly? One fine morning, the users of this teen karaoke app woke up to TikTok on their phones instead of Musical.ly. Yes, TikTok acquired Musical-ly and rebranded the app.

With a Bn reported users as of February 2019, TikTok is the first Chinese app with a wide user base, i.e., 14.3 Mn users in March 2019 in the States. TikTok is sailing the high tide.

It is currently pushing paid ads after hosting several successful sponsorships. However, recent controversies have given rise to concerns around brand safety for businesses. Are you wondering if investing in TikTok’s Ad Business would be a smart move to grow your brand?

Then you must keep reading.

TikTok

The Right Audience Exists

The primary user base for the platform is not just teens; it is the upcoming economy class. Reports suggest that Gen Z forms a large population of the user base too. This means that the right audience exists on the platform.

NBA is showcasing the fun side of the game with behind the scenes footage. Guess’s viral #inmydenim challenge drove engagement and user interaction for the brand. United Nations IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) is leveraging TikTok to combat world hunger by encouraging rural agriculture. 

What is common in all of these brands when they are poles apart? I am glad you asked.

They are putting a creative spin on their messaging.

TikTok is a platform that doubles up as a tool for new content creators. The evolution of the platform has been tremendous. From a meme sharing platform, it has evolved as a contextual video ads platform with a creative edge.

Micro-content is easy to create, and the inbuilt tools make it convenient - an offering previously offered with pictures by Instagram!

TikTok Ads Business- A Marketer’s Dream, or A Brand Safety Nightmare?


The idea of multi-channel marketing through audio-visual content revolves around staying on the customer’s mind and keeping them informed about the brand. However, when businesses invest their time, energy, and funds, the initial apprehensions are obvious.

TikTok is making several brands think, “Will my brand getting the kind of visibility that I want? ”

Or, is Tik Tok going to be another platform to expose our brand to the next brand safety debacle?
 
From data privacy to encouraging child pornography, the allegations on the platform have been massive.

Brand Safety
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) levied a hefty fine of $5.7 Mn for violation of COPPA: the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The app admitted to collecting children under 13 years of age to collect email addresses, names, and other private information with no parental consent. They put an age verification feature under works but it hasn’t been refined yet. BBC’s investigation and it’s startling discovery does not make the decision any easier for brands.

In an India High Court, ByteDance’s legal representative, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Sanghvi rightly pointed out something that led us to a realization. Data privacy and illicit content continue to exist on leading social media platforms: just like YouTube, Facebook, and Snapchat.

The Sword Dangles in the Air


YouTube, Facebook, and SnapChat is still updating its data guidelines to find the right mix of practices. They have been in the business since the last decade.

TikTok will need some time to find the right mix of tactics that can help brands showcase their strengths better, as well as, extinguish their concerns around brand safety. However, the execution on a global level will require time. The early adopters of the platform will gain an advantage.

But what about today? Should brands abandon TikTok until the issues are resolved? That’s a big fat no.

Not in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Leveraging external platforms that ensure brand safety through their unique product offerings is the safest bet with a better conversion rate for your brand.

No business should have to miss out on the pros because of the cons. The introduction of such products in the ads business will keep your customers in the loop while keeping brand safety intact.

Is Artificial Intelligence Powered Video Advertising The Answer?


Data-driven artificial intelligence-powered video advertising solutions can understand the context and are fast becoming an answer to brand safety woes on platforms like Tik Tok. Through the use of artificial intelligence in video advertising, it is now possible to process large volumes of data at speed, with better context, at higher scale and improved targeting efficiencies, while avoiding potentially damaging ad placements.

However, most of these solutions still depend on the use of natural language processing (NLP) and still carry the limitation of not truly understanding the complex relationship words have in written or spoken language. And the biggest limitation for video content lies in the fact that more often than not, the actual content in a video can be drastically different than what it is described in words through meta tags and more. For instance, a 10-minute video might have significant frames featuring smoking or nudity, but this will most likely be missing from the description. Here, Artificial Intelligence-powered computer vision technology can play a significant role.

Artificial Intelligence

How Mirrors is making Video Ads Brand Safe

MIRRORS, by SilverPush, is the world’s first in-video context detection platform for context-relevant video ad placement targeting. Trained to draw insights from millions of pieces of visual content, MIRRORS use OTT Computer vision and deep learning to identify faces, objects, actions, scenarios, logos, and emotions in a streaming video to contextually filter video content. Helping brands engage with the target audience, while they are engaging with their interests across social platforms like Tik Tok, without collecting reams of personal data.

MIRRORS maximize performance through strategically placing in-stream ads at the moment when the targeted context is being viewed and through real-time optimization of your in-flight campaigns.

MIRRORS’ Artificial Intelligence-powered in-video context targeting not only targets context-relevant video content, but it also filters out unsafe, irrelevant and unsuitable content through MIRRORS SAFE. Providing you absolute control and transparency to run your video campaigns in the most relevant environment ensuring complete brand safety.