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On-site Retail Media is advertising sold on the retailer’s own digital properties. This typically includes retailer websites and apps (e.g. Lidl, Ocado, ICA), or online consumer shopping marketplaces (e.g. bol.com, eBay and Amazon). On-Site Retail Media also includes the ability to optimise and measure campaigns as well as target specific inventory.

Formats include, but are not limited to, sponsored product ads, sponsored search results, display banners, email targeted coupons and video.

Search and sponsored product ads are generally bought on a biddable Cost-Per- Click (CPC) basis while some display and video executions can be bought on a Cost-Per-Mille (CPM). Fixed tenancy opportunities are also available.

The collection of data from a particular computer or device regarding web viewing behaviours over time and across non- affiliate web sites for the purpose of using such data to predict user preferences or interests in order to deliver advertising to that computer or device based on the preferences or interests inferred from such web viewing behaviours. Online Behavioural Advertising does not include the activities of first parties, ad delivery or ad reporting, or contextual advertising (i.e. advertising based on the content of the Web page being visited, a consumer’s current visit to a Web page, or a search query). Definition from page 10 of the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising.

An online data provider is broad and includes a number of players and data types, such as companies like Experian (financial data), Nielsen (demographics and psychographic data) and OwnerIQ (purchase history). 

Online video advertising is any audiovisual advert watched over the internet. In its basic form, this could involve a TV ad run online, but increasingly, adverts are adapted or created specifically to suit the online environment. Video advertising can be placed before (pre-roll), during (mid-roll) and after (post-roll) video content - as well as 'outstream' in socical environments and on content sites.

The number of HTML message recipients who opened your email, usually as a percentage of the total number of emails sent.

The process where a subscriber provides explicit consent, after receiving notice form the mobile marketer.

The process where a subscriber revokes consent, after receiving notice from the mobile marketer.

Process of refining an advertising campaign so that it will perform more effectively i.e. extending reach, increasing response rate or creating more awareness.

The ‘natural’ search results that appear in a separate section (usually the main body of the page) to the paid listings. The results listed here have not been paid for and are ranked by the search engine (using spiders or algorithms) according to relevancy to the term searched upon.