Ericsson Emodo, Ericsson’s mobile advertising and monetization platform, today announced the launch of Emodo Verification to help advertisers minimize wasted mobile ad dollars and more effectively reach target audiences. The product is an independent verification tool that uses carrier data to validate the accuracy of mobile audiences and ad campaigns. The first product released since Emodo’s recent acquisition of Placecast, Emodo Verification combines Placecast’s cutting-edge technology with the established, global data sets from Ericsson channels and systems to now offer the industry a tool to confirm the location accuracy of audiences and mobile ads.
And, for a limited time, the company is offering the product in the US for free.
Emodo Verification is unique in that it uses highly-accurate carrier data as a truth set to confirm the accuracy of audiences and mobile ads. Rather than building data profiles or targeting specific customers, the product uses anonymized and aggregated location data from carriers as a “yes or no” check to verify the accuracy of location-based audiences and media buys. What this means is, without using or exposing personally identifiable information, Emodo Verification has the power to offer a level of accuracy that cannot be provided by pattern recognition alone. Accuracy (correctness) is a critically important but often forgotten element in the use of location data, in combination with the precision (specificity) inherent in GPS data. Data precision is meaningless if it is incorrect.
By aggregating privacy-compliant, global, anonymized carrier data to use as a truth set, Emodo Verification can be used in a myriad of ways, including verifying the location accuracy of audiences built into using historical location data, or of geo-targeted mobile advertising campaigns, uncovering mobile ad fraud, and verifying the results of marketing efforts. Ultimately, Emodo Verification provides advertisers with the assurance that clean, filtered data is used in their marketing investments.
“Data verification has the potential to change the game in mobile advertising,” said Paul Cheng, GM of Ericsson Emodo. “Until now, bad data has limited campaign effectiveness and led to billions of dollars in wasted ad spend. Emodo is in a unique position to offer the industry a high-quality, accurate alternative, and we’re committed to diminishing data inaccuracy and media fraud. We’re proud to offer our product at no charge so that everyone can understand the current status of their mobile data quality.”
How it works:
- Advertisers implement a standard tag into their location-aware mobile ad campaign, or they can just send an exposure file.
- Emodo then analyzes the data to validate user location at the key moment in time.
- The advertiser receives reporting with percentages of daily impressions or events that met or did not meet the advertiser’s audience or geo-targeting parameters.
Emodo Verification is the first product to be released from the forthcoming Emodo Ad Stack, a suite of brand-safe products powered by carrier data, developed to solve the most challenging mobile advertising problems.
To learn more about Ericsson Emodo’s new product and try it for free today, please visit: https://www.ericsson-emodo.com/
About Ericsson Emodo
Ericsson Emodo provides carrier-verified advertising, information, and monetization solutions. It delivers data solutions that help advertisers more accurately find and engage audiences, publishers increase the value of their ad inventory, and carriers drive more revenue from their data assets. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, Ericsson Emodo operates a secure, anonymized, privacy-by-design database of carrier-verified data enhanced by additional quality datasets in order provide advertising solutions across the digital advertising ecosystem and data solutions to an array of partners and industries.
