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Retail Media refers to the digital advertising space, retail data assets and in-store opportunities a retailer or marketplace owns, which is then made available to brands for the execution of advertising campaigns. Campaign goals include (but are not limited to) brand awareness, driving sales and new product discovery.

Retail Media includes an increasing range of digital opportunities which can be segmented into off-site, on-site and in-store environments. Retail Media also includes the targeting, optimisation and measurement elements of digital campaigns.

The collective name for online advertising formats that use technology to deliver interactive and audio-visual elements to give richer content and a richer experience.

The willful pause of the user’s cursor on the target portion of the creative (the “hot spot”), such pause lasting at least one second in duration, before an action may be initiated by the ad (i.e. trigger an expand event, etc.). This one-second pause/delay requirement prevents unwanted, user-initiated actions and false reporting of user engagement.

An ad buying option in which ad placements may appear on any pages of the target site.

Carbon emissions are grouped into three scopes, categorising the different kinds of emissions a company creates in its own operations and in its wider ‘value chain’ (its suppliers and customers). 

• Scope 1 emissions are all the direct greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the company’s owned / controlled sources. This includes on-site energy such as heat, electricity, as well as emissions from fleet vehicles.
• Scope 2 are indirect greenhouse gas emissions from purchased or acquired energy. For instance the electricity purchased from a utility company that is generated offsite, are considered indirect emissions.
• Scope 3 includes all indirect emissions that occur in the value chain (what a corporation is indirectly responsible for up and down the value chain). While these emissions may be out of the control of a reporting company, they can represent the largest portion of its greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

The GHG Protocol divides the scope 3 emissions into upstream and downstream emissions. Upstream emissions are indirect GHG emissions within a company’s value chain related to purchased or acquired goods (tangible products) and services (intangible products) and generated from cradle to gate.

Downstream emissions include the indirect GHG emissions within a company’s value chain related to sold goods and services and emitted after they leave the company’s ownership or control

A form of marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs). 

The process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a site from search engines via natural search results for targeted keywords.

A page of search results delivered by a search engine.

The time spent between a user starting an application, computer or website and logging off or quitting.