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Experian launches audience management platform to make programmatic TV a reality across advertising industryNEW YORK, April 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian Marketing Services, the recognized leader in data-driven marketing and cloud-based marketing technology, today unveiled an audience-management platform that will change the way the advertising industry buys and measures media. The Audience Engine platform deterministically links and matches data across the marketing ecosystem in a unified, automated platform for targeting, execution and measurement of addressable advertising campaigns. Experian® developed the platform to automate the process of finding an advertiser's audiences where they are today — at scale, across channels, networks and online and offline platforms. It provides users with a single, agnostic platform to create, understand and activate their addressable advertising campaigns leveraging a combination of first-, second- and third-party data sources. For TV advertisers, this includes linear, addressable and over-the-top audiences, such as connected TV. While in beta over the last nine months, more than 70 brands have used Audience Engine to launch addressable TV campaigns. Brands across verticals including major automotive, travel, retail and consumer packaged goods have already seen success, with an average sales lift of 67 percent. "We built Audience Engine with an open ecosystem in mind. As a result, we've been very successful in securing major accounts that have contributed to the impressive scale of our platform," said Kevin Dean, president and general manager of targeting, Experian Marketing Services. "Our audience management platform allows media companies to monetize their data by making it accessible to the industry in a privacy-compliant, agnostic environment. Meanwhile, the media companies remain in control of their data and how that data is used for marketing." Key facts about the Audience Engine platform
"Experian has become a critical component to today's addressable ecosystem," said Jaime Power, managing partner, Modi Media. "In five years, we'll look back on this platform as a significant milestone in the ease and evolution of Advanced TV Advertising. Their direct link to the MVPD infrastructure drastically improves our ability to implement Addressable campaigns in reasonable time with accurate data and measurement. "Experian's Audience Engine is integral to the future of TV and advertising," said Andre Swanston, CEO of Tru Optik, which provides media and entertainment behavioral data for Audience Engine. "Our partnership with Experian has made Tru Optik data on the consumption of streaming media content available across addressable TV, opening an entire new revenue opportunity for our company and providing media companies and agencies with the insights they need to reach consumers, who are increasingly consuming content across multiple screens." How Audience Engine works
"Traditionally, advertisers and media buyers think about the channel first — whether that's targeting an audience via TV, on Facebook or an app — before they know if their audience is active in that channel. Audience Engine reverses this process," said Dean. "The traditional approach gives advertisers 'reach,' but also results in a lot of wasted money, inaccurate data and irrelevant ads. With our audience-management platform, reach can be achieved with a level of unprecedented precision." To learn more about the Audience Engine platform, please visit Experian's website: http://ex.pn/audienceengine. About Experian Marketing Services About Experian We also help people to check their credit report and credit score, and protect against identity theft. In 2015, we were named by Forbes magazine as one of the "World's Most Innovative Companies." We employ approximately 17,000 people in 37 countries and our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Nottingham, UK; California, US; and São Paulo, Brazil. Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Total revenue for the year ended March 31, 2015, was US$4.8 billion. To find out more about our company, please visit http://www.experianplc.com or watch our documentary, "Inside Experian." Experian and the Experian marks used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Experian Information Solutions, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Contact: Suzanne Blackburn
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