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How AI Marketing Techniques Help Brands Discover Social Affinity
It’s not just another turning of the page. 2016 will definitely go down as one of the more interesting years in recent history. The Rio Olympics and the entire presidential campaign would be two events notable enough on their own. Fortunately, there were also some interesting brand-related and brand-inspired stories that were out there –…
Read MoreAffinity Answers Welcomes Scott Turner As New CRO
Affinity Answers is excited to announce that Scott Turner has joined the team as our new (and first) Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, Scott will be leading our Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Client Service teams, with responsibility for our go-to-marketing strategies and revenue growth. Scott joins us from GfK-MRI where he led the…
Read MoreThe Secret Lives Of Brands
As marketers, we’ve all been guilty at some point of falling in love with our brand. When you believe in the company mission – the compelling “why” of your brand – and spend a good portion of your life promoting the brand, you can fall into the trap of idealizing it and beginning to see…
Read MoreYes, Virginia, There Is A Black Friday Programmatic Segment
New 3rd-party Holiday segments available via ODC Here at Affinity Answers, we specialize in creating audience segments. But not just any audiences – these are audiences with a predicted high likelihood to engage with a brand, event, show, team or celebrity. We do this by collecting billions of active, social engagements, then use this data…
Read MoreFor Brands, Social Affinity Makes Everyday Election Day
There are less than four days left until Americans pick the 45th President of the United States. The state of the race changes so quickly that it’s difficult to keep pace with the constant shifts and swings, but just as we did in July, we at Affinity Answers can update you on the state of…
Read MoreActivationPlanner™ FAQ
FAQ Contents GENERAL QUESTIONS What is the ActivationPlanner™? Where do I find the ActivationPlanner™? How much does the ActivationPlanner™ cost? HOW ACTIVATIONPLANNER™ WORKS How are segment recommendations determined? What are AffinityAnswers data sources? ACTIVATIONPLANNER™ USAGE What are TrueAffinity™ and Likelihood to Engage (LtE)? What’s the difference between an in-category segment and a top affinity segment?…
Read MoreIntroducing ActivationPlanner™
This week, Affinity Answers is pleased to announce the launch of a new application, ActivationPlanner™, currently available for free at https://activationplanner.affinityanswers.com. ActivationPlanner™ is specifically designed to make it easier for Brand Media Directors, Media Agency Planners and Programmatic Buyers to discover and activate the digital advertising segments predicted to be most effective for programmatic branding…
Read MoreF1 Racing is Fast, But is it Swift?
This weekend Formula One (F1) racing makes its only US stop of the year in Austin, TX for the 2016 US Grand Prix. This marks the 5th year in a row of the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) track, which opened in 2012 after a 5-year absence of F1 in…
Read MoreAffinities are All About Content, Context and Location
The Internet of Things will undoubtedly benefit from affinity-based targeting in more ways than one. But IoT is about so much more than having a refrigerator that automatically re-orders your favorite brand of yogurt. At the FutureM conference in Boston last September, speakers from Kraft and Dunkin’ Donuts indicated that they are looking to solutions…
Read MoreAre You Ready for Some Football (Brands)?
With the exception of tonight’s Giants / Vikings game on ESPN, week 4 of the NFL 2016-2017 season is in the books. Though my team, the Panthers, is not having the same success as last year, the networks carrying the games are still doing well and charging premiums for commercials during NFL broadcasts. As detailed…
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