2016 Place Conf: What to Look for In Choosing a Location Data Provider

Choosing a Location Partner

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Tracy ManningDirector, Channel Partnerships

Previously:

Card-carrying member of the #LocationNerdHerd

Head of Marketing Strategy – Telco/Cable

Director, Big Data Product Development

VP, Client Services & Marketing

Completed full RFP for location-based platform 4x over past 6 years

Key Learning: All location data & platforms are not created equally

xAD’S PURPOSE

To get people to a better place

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AWARD-WINNING TECHNOLOGY COMPANYwith the largest, richest database of location insights and opportunity


2014 & 2015 hottest pre-IPO company (Deloitte 500, Inc 5000)

Profitable for 3rd year in a row with +100% Y/Y Growth

2015 Revenues = 125M, Dec run rate of +$250M for 2016

$74M raised from soft bank, IVP, emergence

28 patents filed, 2 granted

Operating in 10 countries

+400 xAders and growing

+100k mobile apps

+100M locations mapped

+325M Unique Users

+500B Ad Requests

Moments of truth: everywhere, all the time

High disposable income

Mom 38 years old

Workout fanatic

Bargain hunter

Urban


Why it matters


Source: BIK Kelsey, 2016

Apps are life’s new remote control; Location provides critical context, experience


Location is set for huge growth


41%

Source: BIK Kelsey, 2016

Location-based marketing

So how do you choose a partner?

Foundational Accuracy & Scale

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Listen to Billions of Ads

Identify the most accurate locations

Match the locations to places

Identify the opportunities

And serve relevant ads

Matching Places with People

PLACES: POI MAPPING

In Store

On Lot

Retail Block

nearby

wider reach

PEOPLE/DEVICES: Long/Lat + Location Data Scoring

• Ad Serving• Store Visitation Attribution• Audience Creation• Insights



Data Sources• What is the source/methodology

for obtaining or curating your Place information?

• 1st party proprietary vs. 3rd

party

• What is the source of your People/Device data and how do you receive it?

• 1stst party (O&O properties/servers), direct 3rd party deal/relationship, impression/exchange data, etc.

• What % comes from:DeviceGPS, Cell tower/ triangulation, User-reported (check-in), User-reported (registration), Wi-Fi, IP addresses, beacons, low power Bluetooth, zip - local content, centroids, NFC, etc.

FOUNDATIONAL ACCURACYPrecision• What is your approach to organizing

or geofencing places/place data (polygons, geo-fence radii, etc.)?

• How precise is your Place data?

• Ex: Are you able to discern the location of a store in a mall versus the parking lot?

• How do you qualify and/or verify your Place data? For example:

• How do you compensate for bad addresses?

• Do you have a way to account for recent opening and closing of locations?

• How do you qualify/verify/filter your People/Devices data?

• How do you calculate dwell times and/or movement?

• How do you create location-based audiences?

Comprehensiveness• How comprehensive is your

Place information (i.e. What percentage of business, addresses, or points of interest do you have place data for)?

• How comprehensive is your People/Device information (i.e. what % of apps/sites do you serve to? What volume of unique devices and/or locates are you seeing daily? Monthly?)

• Is your People/Device data time-stamped?

• How quickly can you scale additional Place or People/Device data?

Store Polygon

Lot Polygon

Block Polygon


GeofencingWhat methodology do they use?

Radius at Mailbox

Radius around Store

Transparency

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Ad Serving

• What apps and sites do you serve my campaign to?

• Is information about the serving of my campaign available in real time?

• What methodologies are used to optimize my campaign?

• What is your process for identifying and filtering out “bad actor” apps/sites?

• What degree of accuracy is truly possible using your platform? What isn’t possible?

TRANSPARENCYResults

• Are my campaigns results available in real-time?

• What metrics can I measure? (i.e. impressions, clicks, secondary actions, store visitation, etc.)

• How are my campaign’s results visualized?

• With what level of granularity can I dig deeper into results data?

Privacy & Contractual Compliance• What is the language in your

contracts with your partners?

• What is the language your partners place in their terms of service?

• How do you and/or your partners speak to consumers about what data is collected, who it is shared with and how it is used?

• What best practices do you follow in terms of privacy & contractual compliance?

• What best practices do you follow in terms of data security?

• What practices do you uses for data joining?

• What industry organizations & committees is your company involved in?

Thought Leadership

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Education• How do you educate partners

about mobile? Location? Your technology?

• What is your on-boarding process for partners?

• What on-going support do you offer to your partners?

• What educational resources are available?

THOUGHT LEADERSHIPInsights• What is your approach to

organizing or geofencingplaces/place data (polygons, geo-fence radii, etc.)?

• How precise is your Place data?

• Ex: Are you able to discern the location of a store in a mall versus the parking lot?

• How do you qualify and/or verify your Place data? For example:

• How do you compensate for bad addresses?

• Do you have a way to account for recent opening and closing of locations?

• How do you qualify/verify/filter your People/Devices data?

• How do you calculate dwell times and/or movement?

Partnership Style• How do you collaborate with

partners for success?

• What are key partner criteria for success?

• What best practices do you recommend your partners employ?

• How do you work with partners ongoing to ensure continual evolution and growth?

Technology & Operations

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UI & Visualization• What components are available in

your UI?

• Planning

• Buying

• Au

• Analytics/Results

• Insights

• Can your UI and/or product be white-labeled?

• Can a secure instance be created for my company?

• How is data visualized and/or reported within your platform?

• How much customization is possible?

Technology & OperationsIntegration• What is the onboarding and

integration process?

• Can you incorporate my data with your data in a privacy-safe, safe haven environment?

• How can I receive, ingest or interact with your data?

• Standard UI

• White-label UI

• API

• Feed

Operations• What is your order placement

process?

• Manual vs. Automated, etc.

• How is your team structured to support us?

• What is the business model for each product/service offering?

• What are the billing terms and processes?

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