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Trading desk

An agency branch trading entity known as the expert operators in their use of new technology.  These entities can be independent or operate within an agency holding company.  This group of people (known as traders) play the day-to-day campaign management role. Used by agency holding companies, operating agencies and advertisers.

Traditional identifiers

Commonly used mechanisms like 3rd party cookie on the browser or Identifier for advertisers on mobile/ device platforms (for e.g. IDFA on iPhone , Android Id on Android devices) to uniquely identify a device or a browser typically used for associating a user or a household.

Traffic

DOOH

Volumes of people moving, whether on foot or in vehicles.

 

Traffic

Number of visitors who come to a website.

Traffic intensity model

DOOH

A complex mathematical model that incorporates all of our findings about traffic, vehicular and pedestrian. We have created a map for the entire country that records every road, pathway and corridor along which people travel. The model ascribes volumes of people-flows to each segment of this map. Known affectionately as TIM.

Transactional VOD (TVOD)

Connected TV

A video content service where customers pay for each piece of video on demand content. For example, a customer would pay a fee for each movie or TV show that they watch. TVOD services, like Apple’s iTunes, enable one-off purchases and often time-limited access.

 

Transit

DOOH

Displays affixed to moving public transportation vehicles or in the common areas of transit terminals and stations.

Unexposed - store conversion rate

DOOH

The rate at which unexposed members of the audience visited the store

 

Unique visitors

Unique visitors refers to the number of distinct individuals requesting pages from a website during a given period, regardless of how often they visit. Visits refer to the number of times a site is visited, no matter how many visitors make up those visits.

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