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Local Digital for Media Buyers: Observed Markets
Local Digital for Media Buyers: Observed Markets

Overview of the new observed markets selection within the Explore feature allowing for the ability to pull local market digital ad activity.

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Updated over 5 months ago

With the introduction of Local Digital insights in our 360 Explore module, you now have access to detailed information about the specific markets where digital campaigns are being observed.

Here’s how Local Digital can help you elevate your media planning and buying:

Receive Hyper-Local Insights

For campaigns running from January 2022 onward, you can now see spend tied to exactly where ads are being observed at the DMA level, offering insight into the true investment into local campaigns.

Compete Smarter For Local Audiences

Uncover your competition’s local media strategy and investment, seeing just who you’re up against in each market you’re targeting. Our update shows, on average:

  • 8.5x more digital spenders per market

  • 3.2x more display spenders per market

  • 17x more video spenders per market

Maximize the Impact of Your Media Spend: Our new DMA-level allocation helps you refine your market strategies with precision. This is especially valuable for optimizing the allocation of your digital and video spend in key local markets.

Key Points:

  • The Observed Markets feature is only available for our Agency & Brand clients who currently utilize the 360 Media Buyer solution.

  • The Observed Markets feature is only available for the following Digital media types:

Internet Display

Online Video

Mobile Web

Mobile App

Mobile Web Video

  • Observed Markets data is available from January 2022 - onward.


Now Available in Explore: Two different views of the digital market, depending on your need!

  1. Property Based (previous method): Assign spend to a property in a market which can be used to consider the value of inventory going to sites which are locally defined.

    Example: LA Times assigned to the Los Angeles DMA

  2. Observed (Local DMA Based): Assign spend to the DMA's based on where the ads were observed.

    Example: LA times readership assigned across the country


How to Access Observed Markets/Local Digital Data in Explore:

  • Click on the Explore button found on the left-side menu and choose "Create New Report".

  • In the LAYOUT tab (Step 2), select Market as a sort.

    **Market MUST be selected as a sort in order for the Observed Markets option to populate.**

  • In the MEDIA/MARKETS tab, if your report includes a Market sort and Digital data, you can specify which view of Market allocation you wish to use.

    Observed will show spend based on the panelist location (this ad was served to a user in Wisconsin).

    Property will show spend based on the property’s location (all spend for Chicago Sun-Times is allocated to the Chicago market).

    Reports will initially default to Property Type, but will remember the user's preference next time.


Final output for reports with Observed Markets selected:

All reports that have Observed will report the DMA.

Nothing will be reported as "Total US".

For ads that have not been assigned to a locally observed market, the market view will appear as “Not Specified” and will show up at the bottom of the market list.

Impact:

Observed Markets/Local Digital improves representation of spend by market.

*Source: Vivvix Desktop / Mobile / App: FY 2023

YouTube Example:

*Source: Vivvix Desktop / Mobile / App: FY 2023


If you have any additional questions, you can reach out to your local Vivvix Client Success Manager. Our support team is also available for assistance via email at customersupport@mediaradar.com.

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