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People buy cars in person, not online. Yet automotive marketers continue to rely on digital metrics to measure success, even though research shows there’s no correlation between click-through rates (CTRs) and offline actions. Online performance may appear positive, but it isn’t…
According to foot traffic behaviors, consumer tastes are changing and what was once touted as ‘the future of dining’ may soon not exist, writes GroundTruth’s Sarah Ohle. For those unfamiliar, fast casual eateries are defined by slightly higher check sizes than fast…
Brands know they can refine their local mobile ads to be more relevant — but they may not realize that location targeting can deliver similar results on a national level, writes GroundTruth’s Dan Silver. If marketers ever doubted the value…
Brief: Taco Bell, the Mexican fast-food chain with 7,000 restaurants in the U.S., drove more than 170,000 store visits with a two-week mobile campaign that raised money for a college scholarship program. GroundTruth, a location-based mobile ad platform formerly known…
Less than a quarter (24%) of mobile media planners use third parties to measure and validate their data, according to new research, despite ongoing calls from marketers for digital giants to increase their third party measurement partners. GroundTruth (formerly xAd), conducted the…
We all know that the weather can impact our mood. Waking up to sunshine is nothing like looking out the window in the morning to see an approaching storm, whether the view is of a beach or a city skyline.…
The age-old question of whether a brand’s advertising “works” has been put to the test by a number of brands over the past year with casual dining operator Bloomin’ Brands endorsing the method unveiled by GroundTruth this past spring with Home Depot…
Interest in location-based ads sparked following the arrival of Snap Maps earlier this month, but many marketers believe getting accurate location data is still too complicated for them to spend more money on audience targeting in this way. Forrester surveyed 203 senior…
Snap has named GroundTruth as its latest location technology partner, as the social messaging/“camera” company seeks to sharpen and broaden its advertising arsenal. As an official partner, GroundTruth will make Snapchat’s Geofilters and Snap Ads available directly on the location…
New York-based xAd wants to be known for more than serving up location-powered mobile campaigns. The 8-year old firm is rebranding itself as GroundTruth today—a new name meant to convey the data science that marketers are increasingly relying on. “Earlier in…