Can AT&T Use Its Ad Spend Data to Help Clients Target Consumers?
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AT&T is the country’s fifth largest ad spender — and now its using data gleaned from its own digital advertising to to help other marketers buying inventory through AT&T’s AdWorks business.
The company is unveiling a new platform, called Blueprint, for targeted online, mobile and TV ads. However, the platform falls short of achieving what largely remains elusive for advertisers: a way to target one person or group of the same people across digital, mobile and traditional platforms. At the outset, there will be three Blueprint platforms: one for online, one for mobile and one for TV. Most notably, it will be using the intelligence it gathers from its own corporate digital ad efforts to inform the online Blueprint platform.
“We’re both an ad network and an advertiser … our ads show up in thousands of websites that go beyond our network. The nice thing about that is we can leverage that learning,” said Maria Mandel Dunsche, head of marketing and media for AT&T’s AdWorks. The company’s own ads create 4 billion signals per month that it uses to identify audience segments and interest categories, said Ms. Mandel Dunsche.
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