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Psychographic targeting

Targeting audiences defined by personality, interests, attitudes or mindsets, e.g. Financial Optimists, Environmentally-Conscious Consumers. Often driven from offline surveys and stated preferences.

Publisher

A web property providing content for consumers.  Business models range from subscription services to advertising monetisation.  

Purchase intent

DOOH

Purchase intent is a measure of the probability that a consumer will purchase a service or product.

Purpose limitation

Purpose limitation is a way to constrain a task or an operation within a very specific outcome or use

Query string formation

A query string is the set of words entered into a search engine by an individual. Query string formation is simply the process of thinking of the correct query string to get the results required.

 

Rating

Gaming

A categorisation of games to determine the appropriacy of the content to various age groups.

 

Reach

DOOH

The net (unduplicated) count or percent of the defined universe of the target audience exposed to content, advertising, or a specific ad, in a Screen within a defined time frame. This time frame can be a day, week, or month, or even less-frequent time periods although more frequent reports are generally desirable to users. (Source: MRC Digital Place-Based Audience Measurement Standards Version 1)

Reach

The number of unique web users potentially seeing a website one or more times in a given time period expressed as a percentage of the total active web population for that period.

Real time

Information, data or content delivered immediately with no delay in the processing of requests, other than the time necessary for the data to travel over the Internet.

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