Posts Tagged ‘social media audiences’
New consoles expected to propel video game audience momentum
Video game audiences have seen significant increases over the past few months, and new console releases aim to sustain this massive user base through the holidays. While the highly-anticipated launches of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S loom on the horizon, Facebook (via Oculus) and Nintendo are also delivering record console sales, providing video…
Read MoreNew Gamers Provide Advanced Targeting Opportunities
While world events have interrupted certain industries, gamers are active as ever and now growing rapidly. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve witnessed many industries astutely switch gears or grind to a halt, pausing advertising campaigns and furloughing personnel while eagerly awaiting a return to some kind of normalcy. Some video game publishers, however, are succeeding…
Read MoreRecommendation Engines Provide an Ad Targeting Edge
Recommender engines have become a pivotal force in the evolution of marketing and currently power some of the world’s biggest players, from Amazon to Netflix. By compiling usage data and engagement statistics, these engines are able to recommend more relevant choices for viewers or buyers, keeping them engaged while encouraging usage time and conversions. But…
Read MoreAffinities Tell the Story Between Candidates and Issues
Since the Obama campaign of 2008, the world has come to realize the power of social media in politics. Politicians flock to social media to communicate policy, engage with constituents and to debate the issues with fellow candidates and pundits. For the last decade, Affinity Answers has been a leader in understanding the publicly available…
Read MoreA New Study Shows Disloyalty is the New Norm
The writing has been on the wall for quite sometime now. Whether you are a devoted follower of Byron Sharp, a strong believer in the heavy buyer fallacy, or a heretic who knew the Pareto Ratio would never stand up to the pressures of consumerism; loyalty ain’t what it used to be. This truth is…
Read MoreThe Insanely Misunderstood Power of Brand-Level Data
Imagine you are speaking to a guy you just met at a party. As the conversation goes along, you slowly start to learn more about him. You learn he is 26 years old, lives in Boston, a self-proclaimed technophile, who loves movies and is currently in the market for a new bank. At first glance,…
Read MoreAffinity Answers Expands to The UK and Germany
First Overseas Distribution of its Exclusive European-centric “Mutual Affinity” Social Media Audience Data AUSTIN, TX (March 20, 2017) Affinity Answers, which created the first platform for predictive branding – achieved through proprietary mutual affinity algorithms that measure active social engagement data across 60,000 brands and 400 million people worldwide – today announced it has expanded its offerings…
Read MoreAffinities Identify the Most Engaging Content and Personalities on YouTube
Channels with the highest brand affinity outperform channels based on genre and subscriber count AffinityAnswers is not just for tracking brands; advertisers can also find which YouTube channels – based on the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter behaviors of the channels’ fans – have high affinity for their brand. This level of insight was key for…
Read MoreBudweiser’s Social Affinity is Driven by Traditional Advertising
Increased TV ad spend moves the needle For Budweiser on ESPN One of the biggest misconceptions about using social affinity targeting is that it’s only effective on social. There is indeed value in having tools that provide efficiency and insight in the social sphere, but mutual social affinities are so much more. Social affinities represent…
Read MoreA Look Back at 2015
Another year has come and gone, and we at Affinity Answers could not be more excited to share the good times and prosperity awaiting us in 2016 with all of you. Just before the ball drops and 2015 is in the history books, we are taking a look back at a sample of the big…
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