Gartner defines the ad tech market as technology for managing digital advertising across channels and devices, including display, video, streaming TV and audio, in-app (including games), social, and search. It provides functions for campaign planning, media buying, advertising analysis, optimization and automation. Ad tech can be used by buy-side and sell-side agents; this evaluation focuses exclusively on buy-side.
Marketing analytics skills are among the most important capabilities in the marketing organization, yet it remains difficult to recruit, hire and retain people with strong skills to support in-house teams. Most marketing teams still struggle with a skills gap in this domain. As a result, marketers seek to augment internal teams by using advanced analytics service providers that offer third-party expert resources, proprietary methodologies and models, and even managed technology to help marketers tackle some of their toughest challenges. Vendors in this market specialize in advanced analytics, including sophisticated methods such as mapping the customer journey, attributing marketing spend to measured outcomes, simulating and measuring business impact of marketing and advertising campaigns, and implementing predictive models. Engagements may be project-based or part of an ongoing partnership, and may include the use of proprietary technology.
SEO tools are essential to improve ranking in organic search results and are a vital component for an organizations’ online marketing strategies. The tools are used for keyword research, keyword position tracking, website audit, competitor analysis, automated reporting, and much more. - The tool helps identify relevant keywords to plan strategies around them to get higher positions in search results. - The tool monitors and creates reports for data relating to ranking factors such as keyword rankings, page views, traffic, and other website-related metrics. - The SEO tool can also perform site auditing to find website issues such as broken links and duplicate content to improve the quality of the website which ultimately results in boosting the search engine rankings. - The marketeers also leverage SEO tools to analyze competitors’ SEO strategies like what competitors are doing or which keywords are helping them rank better.