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Cathy Boyle
Senior Analyst
Top Trends in
Mobile Location-Based
Advertising
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Agenda
 Outlook on mobile-local ad spending
 Six degrees of location targeting
 Inventory availability: Balancing reach and
relevance
 Precision targeting tactics and results
 Location history
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Location-
based ad
targeting
grew far
more
popular
worldwide
in 2013

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In the US,
spending on
local-mobile
advertising
is rising
rapidly and
will surpass
spending on
national
campaigns
in three
years

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Mobile ads can be targeted to standard
and nonstandard geographic areas
COUNTRY
STATE
CITY
ZIP
DMA, MSA
LAT/LONG
Six degrees of location targeting

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 IP location detection
A device’s location is derived in various
ways, with varying degrees of precision
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 IP location detection
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 A cocktail of signals
A device’s location is derived in various
ways, with varying degrees of precision
Cell Tower
Triangulation
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 IP location detection
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 A cocktail of signals
 Indoors: Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth
Beacons (Bluetooth low energy)
A device’s location is derived in various
ways, with varying degree of precision
http://tech.mn/news/2013/12/10/the-nerdery-labs-apple-ibeacon/

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New York, NY
Precise latitude/longitude is required to
target nonstandard geographic areas
Peoria, IL
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Sale
The cocktail of signals provides the most accurate lat/long data.
Inventory availability and campaign scale must be
considered when relying on lat/long.

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When targeting gets granular …
… it’s not always easy to reach a significant slice of
the population.
“Sometimes it’s hard to find meaningful inventory
when you micro-target.”
—Rory O’Flaherty, group media director at R/GA
“Once you start geofencing or radius targeting … it starts
to get a bit pricey. … It will limit the audience you’re
reaching.”
—Roxanne Gross, media planner for Neo@Olgilvy

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“We find between 18% to 20% of the inventory comes through
with accurate and validated lat/long for location points.”
—Monica Ho, vice president of marketing for xAD
“Because users have to give consent for an app to pass
along their GPS coordinates, hyperlocal inventory is on the
smaller side. It’s roughly 20% of what’s available.”
—Adam Soroca, chief product officer of Jumptap, which was
acquired by Millennial Media
10% to 20% of mobile display inventory
has ‘clean’ latitude and longitude data
“A lot of the location data coming through is erroneous. So
there’s a lot of scrubbing to do to get a precise and
accurate lat/long. Of all the inventory, 10% to 15% has
lat/long.”
—David Staas, president of JiWire

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The key to increasing inventory is
increasing consumer opt-in rates
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40% rarely
or never
give
permission

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Consumers need a compelling reason to
share their location

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Precision Targeting:
Tactics and
Effectiveness

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3 leading location-targeting tactics
 Geoaware
 Geofencing
 Geoconquesting
On the rise:
 Indoor targeting
 Audience targeting
via location-derived
insights

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Geoaware: Location is detected and a
location-appropriate message is served
Goal: Raise awareness of
Omni-Heat jacket and increase
foot traffic to participating retailers
Tactics: Served location-aware ads
with landing pages that carried contact
information and directions to closest
retailer
Case study published by xAd, 2013 Year in Review report.
Results:
CTR was 52% above industry average

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Geofencing: Targeting devices within a
specified radius of a particular location
Goal: Engage consumers when they were near a
Quiznos restaurant at mealtimes to increase
restaurant visitation
Tactics:
 Geofenced Quiznos restaurants and served ads to
mobile devices (and web-enabled vehicles) within the
geofence at specific times of the day
 Consumers who gave the ad a “thumbs up” received
an email with a coupon offer for the nearby Quiznos
“We measured performance through coupon
redemptions and were very happy with the
results.” —Susan Lintonsmith, CMO, Quiznos

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Geoconquesting: Targeting devices
within proximity of competitor locations
Case study published by PayPay Media Network
Quarterly Report, Q2 2013
Goal: Increase mobile traffic to
reservation bookings engine
Results:
 Average CTR: 0.95%
 CTR on highest engagement day:
2.3%
Tactics:
 Geofenced top-3 competitor hotel
locations, airports, plus Best
Western hotels
 Location-aware ads included
distance to nearest Best Western
 Booking engine was embedded on
landing page

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On average, geoprecise targeting tactics
deliver the strongest results
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However, the power of proximity varies
by industry
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For some, ads served “in-store” can be far
weaker than ads served “near-store”

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The
clickthrough
rate is the
baseline
metric but
secondary
action rates
give greater
insight
into ad
performance

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Various methods are used
to measure foot traffic lift:
 Tracking the location of future
ads served to a device
 Consumer panels
 Device ID tracking to delineate
natural visitation from
ad-inspired visitation
Multiple solutions have emerged to
measure the impact on foot traffic
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Example solutions include:
 Location conversion index
(JiWire)
 Place visit rate (PlaceIQ)
 Store visitation rate (xAd)
 Foot traffic index (Verve Mobile)
Blind case studies suggest geotargeted mobile ads
generate a 2.5x lift in store visits

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Indoor targeting: On-location technology
is used to deliver messages
Wi-Fi
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Beacons (Bluetooth low energy, audio)
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Will iBeacons be a boon for retailers?
“We did a pilot in the second and third quarters and it
was wonderful. The data was great. The ability for
us to drive traffic where we wouldn’t have had traffic
otherwise made us continue the exploration of this
technology.”
—Ryan Bonifacino, vice president of digital strategy for Alex and Ani
“Coming out of the gate, this technology is going to be
leveraged and driven mostly by large retailers who
already have their own apps and have the large
app audience.”
—Rob Murphy, vice president of marketing for Swirl

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Leveraging Location
History to Identify
Audiences

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More brands are using location history
to pinpoint audience segments
“Most marketers today are engaging in location-based
advertising through geofencing—targeting everyone in
the same areas, within a circle, with the same ad.
We’re targeting based on decisions
consumers have made in the past.”
— Tim Kraus, senior interactive manager for Quiznos, in a
June 2013 article published by Mobile Commerce Daily
To reach consumers while they were making lunch
plans, Quiznos leveraged location history to target
mobile users who had been to local restaurants
similar to Quiznos within the past 30 days.
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Patterns of movement help marketers
identify and reach new audiences
Samsung found an audience of tech
enthusiasts by identifying mobile users who
had recently visited a list of electronics stores

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Knowing where a device has been
provides insight into consumer intent
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“The fact that a person has actually been to the Ford
Motor Co. dealership is a bigger indicator they’re
interested in a car than the person going to the Ford
website.”
—Scott Symonds, managing director of AKQA Media
“Location could change mobile advertising
the same way intent data changed desktop
advertising. Knowing a user walked onto a car lot is a
strong signal of intent and it’s a unique piece of data
that’s available only in mobile.”
—Jeff Frantz, vice president of mobile at BlueKai
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Greater data availability means greater
responsibility to protect privacy
“The more we can marry location
and audience, the better.”
— Jeff Gooding, director of consumer marketing at Ace Hardware
The challenge for data providers lies in parsing
the vast amount of historical mobile location
information in a way that is both useful for
marketers and respectful of consumer privacy.

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Three takeaways:
 Permission is paramount: Consumers need a
compelling reason to opt in and marketers need more
inventory with lat/long data. Increasing opt-in rates for
location tracking is critical to success.
 Real-time location targeting improves
performance: Knowing where a device is now enables
brands to deliver ads that are relevant to a mobile user’s
immediate surroundings.
 Location history provides valuable audience
insights: Knowing where a device has been can be
used from an analytics standpoint to pin audience types
to particular places and even build unique audience
segments based on visitation patterns.

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