Marketers are increasingly
putting their trust in technology to run successful digital ad campaigns.
Nearly half (46%) of all advertisers believe that having a deeper in-house knowledge of digital ad technology is the
most important factor in bringing digital advertising success. That’s more than the 27% of advertisers that feel having the most talented media agency is most important when it comes to digital
ad success, per a new report from AudienceScience.
The results are part of the second annual International Media Image Survey (I-MIS) released in conjunction with the International Advertising
Association, Warc and M&M Global.
It should be noted that AudienceScience is a digital ad tech firm that specializes in bringing technology directly to brands and was a sponsor of the
I-MIS survey. There were also 795 respondents, 189 of which worked ad media or tech companies. An additional 486 worked in agencies, 82 were senior advertisers and 38 were consultants or academics in
the media industry.
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This means that 24% percent of respondents worked at media tech companies and could have simply voted for themselves, skewing the results. However, even if we assume the
worst and pretend that all 189 voted for “deeper in-house knowledge” over "elite media agency," that stills means over 22% of the other voters, most of which were from media agencies,
believe deeper in-house knowledge is the most vital component to digital ad success.
In other words, while AudienceScience did a have a horse in the race, the results are still meaningful and
help give reason to the “taking programmatic in-house” trend. In fact, the survey was conducted in the spring of 2014, which one could contend was on the cusp of -- or at least in the
thick of -- the “in-house” trend.
Nearly half (43%) of survey respondents said they planned to take more digital planning in-house, many of which presumably did so -- otherwise we
wouldn’t have Sir Martin Sorrell making comments on the matter.
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