Broadcasters can now offer mobile targeting to their advertisers
HAILEY, ID – Marketron, the leading provider of business software solutions and services for the media industry, just announced the availability of a new location-based advertising solution that will enable targeting to consumers based on their exact location. The Marketron solution aggregates impressions from its mobile platform to target consumers based on their location. This delivers broadcasters an important new product for their suite of offerings to local advertisers. For example a car dealer can be on-air, on-line, and on location to conquest buyers all under the umbrella of a strong local station brand.
“Marketron is at the forefront of one of the most exciting trends in digital advertising, the convergence of mobile, location, and context; essentially bringing true one-to-one marketing to brands like never before,” said Martin Kristiseter, VP Mobile Solutions at Marketron. “With exceptional technology already in place, Marketron will be unequaled in its ability to present and deliver cutting-edge mobile advertising products to our broadcast partners and their clients.”
The new solution will provide full transparency to reporting and campaign overview for both stations and their advertisers as well as support all ad units including rich media, video, and native ads. Marketron also has an in-house design team to handle broadcasters’ clients’ creative as well as in-house advertising operations to handle campaign optimization for all live campaigns. With location-verified inventory from close to 10,000 publishers in North America and direct access to trading desks and ad networks, targeted campaigns can go live in a matter of hours instead of weeks.
Heather Monahan, EVP of Sales for Beasley Broadcast Group said, “We are able to offer our clients a high-quality mobile customer acquisition tool at scale by leveraging Location-based Advertising Services from Marketron. Compared to the alternatives out there, Marketron’s platform is a great fit for us in terms of capabilities, features, scale and performance.”
To learn more about location-based advertising, please contact mobile@marketron.com
About Marketron
Marketron is the media industry’s leading provider of business software solutions and services, and specializes in revenue management and audience engagement solutions. With more than 7,000 media organizations served, Marketron solutions are the most widely used in the world and manage an estimated $15 billion in annual advertising revenue in the United States alone. The Marketron Mediascape platform is the only open architecture solution for the media industry, and effectively streamlines operational efficiencies through a web-based platform that is open for partner integrations.
