When advertisers look beyond demographic and psychographic data, they gain a deeper descriptive and predictive view of their audience. This is especially true when using individual-level transactional data, which is almost always the most predictive of future spending behaviors.
To reach gamers outside of video games, brands have moved beyond one-off activations based on specific intellectual properties toward more fully integrated programs that span across all aspects of a creator’s community and fandom.
As teams feel the squeeze on their budgets and media effectiveness, they’re diversifying revenue drivers and experimenting with new and lower-funnel channels.
A spokesperson for the professional networking app confirmed to Digiday that the team expects to make it “globally available to all advertisers by early fall,” though did not confirm a specific date.