当你玩得开心的时候,时间过得很快令人难以置信的是,Xaxis今年已经10岁了。
当公司在2011年6月成立时,我们是第一个由机构拥有的程序化交易专家。作为WPP和GroupM周围新生的程序化人才的一盏明灯,Xaxis迅速成为全球性的公司,在第一年结束时有111人在11个国家为400个客户提供服务。但在当时,程序化广告只占数字显示广告预算的10%,在我们经营的国家只有5亿人上网。
十年后,全球3890亿美元的数字广告中,超过72%将用于以程序化方式向全球40多亿人投放的广告。而且,随着音频、电视和户外都经历了自己的程序化转型,很明显,程序化正迅速成为数字的同义词。最近的历史证明,只要媒体可以进行程序化交易,它就会被交易。这些好处--可寻址性、自动化、基于数据的创意等等--对广告商来说实在是太有吸引力了。在其最好的情况下,程序化媒体有可能使广告对每个人,包括消费者都更好。
驾驭这一日益复杂的局面并不容易,坦率地说,它从来都不是。从一开始,我们就明白,我们必须具有创造性和创新性,才能在无情的创新步伐中保持领先,并充分利用这一具有深刻变革意义的技术的潜力。通过[m]Insights(或当时的Turbine),我们推出了行业内第一批受众数据管理平台之一。几年后,我们创建了自己的人工智能平台Copilot,以利用机器学习技术的进步,并将其轻松应用于媒体购买,为客户提供更好的结果。
在过去的十年中,我们不得不适应不断地重塑自己,并依靠我们的数据、技术,以及也许是最关键的,我们的员工,代表我们的客户继续创新。
在过去的五年中,我们在机器学习和定制算法方面的发展非常成熟,但我们仍然相信,人才仍然是创新的基石。值得骄傲的是,媒体和Xaxis仍然是一个以人为本的企业,虽然我们打算继续开发专有技术,并与GroupM和WPP的其他部门合作,将媒体转化为商业成果,但正是我们令人难以置信的员工--目前在47个国家有1500名员工--将对实现我们的目标产生最大的影响,使广告对客户和我们所有人都更有价值。
"在过去的十年中,我们不得不适应不断地重新塑造自己"。
10X10: A year to celebrate
At a time when the pace of change in technology, privacy regulation, and consumer behaviours is only accelerating, we should remind ourselves that brands need our help more than ever. Our clients are besieged with oft-conflicting information, pitches, and industry jargon, and operate in increasingly complex and fragmented environments. Our job is to help them navigate through it all and make the complex simple by focusing on making advertising work better for their business and for all of us.
So, to mark our ten-year anniversary, we’ll be celebrating throughout 2021 with some thought starters on the ten key trends that we believe all modern marketers should think about; topics like the role AI could play in our industry; how the rise of gaming translates into opportunity; where and how e-commerce will have the biggest impact; what the forthcoming boom in DOOH could mean for your overall programmatic strategy.
Our 10X10 series will aim to offer in-depth insight on each trend from thought leaders inside and outside of Xaxis, our partners, our clients, our competition - the people who live and breathe at the bleeding edge of programmatic media.
We hope that you will find it valuable and that it will help you pick up the signal from the noise, so we can more confidently address the collective challenges and opportunities we are facing as an industry. We have accomplished a lot in the last ten years, but it will take all of us at our innovative best to make the most of the next ten and make advertising better for everyone.
Buckle up, it should be an exciting ride!
Nicolas