To Improve Attribution, It Will Take a Village

To Improve Attribution, It Will Take a Village

Being in the industry for about 10+ years, I feel improving attribution has been talked about for years, yet minimal progress has been made. This was evident in hearing some of the soundbytes in last week’s IAB Performance Committee meeting.

Time to Look Beyond Standard Ad Reporting

Time to Look Beyond Standard Ad Reporting

In order to truly personalize creative, and connect with consumers in a 1:1 fashion, advertisers and publishers must be able to have advanced, custom, and holistic reporting to understand what is/is not resonating with their audience. To address this, Flite recently rolled out Key Metrics and Global Variables.

Flite Enabling Technologies: Datastream

Flite Enabling Technologies: Datastream

Marketing budgets consist primarily of production and distribution costs. Spend too much on production, and you’ll produce a wonderful advertisement that nobody sees. Spend too much on distribution, and you’ve got a lackluster campaign that fails to deliver, and possibly even damages your brand’s reputation. What’s a marketer to do?

Fashion Survey Encourages Luxury Retailers to Retool Marketing Approach

Fashion Survey Encourages Luxury Retailers to Retool Marketing Approach

Digital shopping is changing the way millions of consumers shop for clothes, and there is no change of that in sight. This is creating a divide between luxury brands and millennials, as the device-savvy shoppers are focused on sites that offer style, mixed with reasonable pricing, and convenience.

Flite conducted a survey to provide fashion advertisers with insights on the habits & attitudes of today's digital fashion consumers, so campaigns can be tailored effectively. 

Enabling Technologies: (Patented) Ripple Live Updates

Enabling Technologies: (Patented) Ripple Live Updates

Ripple Live Updates is the patented technology behind Flite’s real-time editing capabilities and enables brands to push changes instantaneously to live campaigns. This ensures marketers can reach their entire audience base with speed, scale, and precision.

'NYT' Finds Success With Immersion Units

'NYT' Finds Success With Immersion Units

Publishers and advertisers are constantly seeking new ways to offer readers engaging and less-interruptive experiences with native/branded content. 

Some, including The New York Times, are experimenting with different ad formats and sizes like the Immersion Unit developed by Flite. The New York Times started using Immersion Units late last year and the format has quickly evolved as a go-to format that the Times has incorporated into premium ad offerings. 

The units are designed to deliver content-rich native experiences with non-standard ad sizes. These in-stream ad units are helping publishers increase engagement rates and making advertisers see the merit in leveraging a CMP like Flite.

ICYMI Event Recap: #RespectUX

ICYMI Event Recap: #RespectUX

On July 21st, Flite and Kiip gathered some of SF's finest digital marketers to discuss some of the best practices and challenges around respecting UX. 60+ guests joined us in person, and more than 600+ joined our conversation live online. Check out what you missed!

Flite’s Enabling Technology I: Autopilot

Flite’s Enabling Technology I: Autopilot

Flite's Creative Management Platform is powered by a unique set of technologies, enabling marketers to achieve 1:1 personalized communication with precision, speed and scale. Today, we take a closer look at Autopilot - Flite's principal technology which serves as power lines connecting data and creative, and a powerful creative-decisioning engine.

Live Tonight, July 21st: Respecting the Digital User Experience

Live Tonight, July 21st: Respecting the Digital User Experience

This evening 7/21 at 6PM, Flite joins forces with Kiip and San Francisco's leading digital marketers discuss the importance and challenges around building gripping digital user experiences. Follow the conversation live on Facebook or Twitter. 

Finding the right brushstrokes for Facebook's Canvas

Finding the right brushstrokes for Facebook's Canvas

Facebook has done a stellar job offering engaging and interactive ad products, and Canvas is no exception. In case you are unfamiliar, Canvas is a media-rich, full-screen mobile ad format in the Facebook app that has quick load times.

This ad product was built knowing that consumers' time spent is drastically shifting to mobile-first and brands need to follow suit. 

When it Rains, It Doesn’t Have to Pour to Have Massive Consumer Impact

When it Rains, It Doesn’t Have to Pour to Have Massive Consumer Impact

“How was the weather while I was away?”, I asked my wife upon arriving at La Guardia after a business trip in early May.

“Horrible.  It rained every day,” she replied.

Of course, as a self-confessed weather junkie, I knew exactly what the weather had brought. In fact, I had observed that exactly 0.82” of rain had fallen across four days in my absence – not an insignificant amount, but rather ho-hum for Northeast springtime standards. 

Video Advertising Works Best When Actually Seen

Video Advertising Works Best When Actually Seen

Would you ever want to receive only a percentage of something you paid for? Of course not. This is precisely why the concept of “video viewability” has been of great interest to brand advertisers, publishers, and agencies, over the course of the past several years.

With the rise of digital video advertising, followed shortly thereafter by the rise of the “bad actors” of the digital ecosystem – ad fraudsters, bots, suspicious traffic, and malware – viewability has become an important metric when analyzing inventory, as well as when analyzing campaign performance.

Data and Media Continue to Join the Creative Party at Cannes Lions

Data and Media Continue to Join the Creative Party at Cannes Lions

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity brought together everyone and anyone who is either a decision-maker, an influencer, or a trailblazer in the industry. It has been said not being there is a louder statement than being there, and it is so true. The festival attracts advertising agencies, brands, media companies and platforms alike. Once you look past the yachts, parties, and epic scenery, the center of the event is around creative, but now data and media have joined that party.  

Digital Video Is Great…When You Can Measure It

Digital Video Is Great…When You Can Measure It

The IAB’s recent report on digital video’s explosive growth was the veritable symphony to the chorus that we’ve all been hearing from the industry the past two or three years. All the facts are there. Digital video is white-hot and everyone — publishers, brands, agencies, and yes, consumers — want it. But how do we properly measure it? Ah, the $100,000 question.

The Perfect Marketing Campaign Fallacy

The Perfect Marketing Campaign Fallacy

The conventional digital marketing workflow is etched in stone. The fallacy lies in believing that on our first attempt, we can design perfect creatives with the most optimal copy, and that we’ll be able to apply meaningful insights to future campaigns.

The best digital marketers know we do not have the luxury of waiting a few weeks or months to gather data and improve campaign performance. We know that consumer demand is a constantly evolving beast; what’s hot today might be passé tomorrow.

Flite Academy III:  Digital Video Advertising (A Curated Glossary)

Flite Academy III: Digital Video Advertising (A Curated Glossary)

There’s no denying video’s rampant growth in digital advertising today. Consumer attention is shifting quickly from traditional broadcast television to internet connected devices and marketers are adapting quickly. As video evolves so too does the language surrounding it. Since some basic understanding of digital video's terminology is needed to reap its benefits, we've created this list to help you get started.

BrandU Highlights 1:1 Communication

BrandU Highlights 1:1 Communication

Last week, Flite sponsored the BrandU conference in New York. This is a relatively-new conference, run by Bonin Bough, with the purpose being to provide mid and high-level brand managers and agency reps the tools to further their career while educating them on the latest technologies. And companies like Flite offer new solutions to challenges that these budding marketers are facing on a daily basis.


With these types of conferences there are always many lessons to be learned. One of the major highlights was a fireside chat between Bonin and Shingy. For those of you not familiar with Shingy, he is a well-known digital media trend spotter, and definitely worth watching some of his videos. Below are the three key takeaways from the two-day event.

Make Back-to-School 2016 a 1:1 Shopping Experience

Make Back-to-School 2016 a 1:1 Shopping Experience

School is almost back in session and marketers and publishers are responsible for personalizing the shopping experience, both online and in-store, for a variety of audiences. And like every other seasonal event, digital advertising is the featured platform for personalized campaign messages to be served to students and parents alike.