The 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,…

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Niche Gaming Audiences Using ActivationPlanner

Gaming has become a more accepted part of popular culture and has seen a massive expansion in the number of players. Up to 65% of American households play video or computer games every year. As gaming increases in popularity and accessibility, gaming audiences, too, grow in size and segments. The video gamer is no more…

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How Users Have Embraced (Or Not) 280 Character Tweets

In November last year, Twitter doubled the limit on tweet length from 140 characters to 280 characters.  Because Affinity Answers observes and analyzes consumer behavior across social networks including Twitter (more on how we do it here), we were prepared to observe lengthier Tweets from brands and celebrities as well as lengthier replies to those…

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Turning Social Media Engagements Into Audience Recommendations

When Affinity Answers gathers intelligence such as “Consumers interested in The Cheesecake Factory are likely to be interested in Jared Jewelry, Andes Mints and CeraVe”, how do we derive these recommendations?  Hundreds of global brands rely on Affinity Answers’ recommender system in their programmatic media buying because they trust the intelligence from which it is…

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Control Digital Investments With Buyer-Driven Branding

There’s no doubt we are in the midst of an exciting, dynamic era in marketing – an “always on” consumer culture and new technologies to apply to the customer experience are among the opportunities at our disposal.  Yet as the saying goes, “water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink” — Marketers are data…

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Audience Enrichment: What’s In Your Data?

A POV on Audience Enrichment and Finding the Hidden Gems in Your Data There are so many questions that marketers have about their data. A quick Google search of “too much data” yields the following results: “Do you really have big data, or just too much?” “Why too much data is stressing us out” “5…

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AffinityAnswers Partners with LiveRamp to Expand Distribution of its “Mutual Affinity” Social Media Audience Data

AUSTIN, TX (March 7 , 2017) Affinity Answers, a platform for predictive branding powered by affinity algorithms that measure social data across 60,000 brands and 400 million people worldwide, today announced a partnership with LiveRamp™ a leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution. Through the partnership, Affinity Answers will make its social media audience data actionable across…

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