Unlock Hidden Revenue - How To Turn Your Data Into A Profit Powerhouse
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The fastest way to start generating revenue is to securely leverage the first-party data you already have.
Many businesses are already collecting valuable data through their own channels like their website, mobile app or even transactional data. And there are many brands with marketing budgets looking for this data.
So how can you connect the two?
The quickest and easiest way to do this is to join a data marketplace, where you can share your existing Google and Meta pixels to create audience segments.
Then you can securely share your audience data with brands and advertisers looking to enhance their targeting.
Expand your offering and increase advertiser value
Once you’ve monetised your audience, the next step is to build a deeper commerce media strategy.
This means offering off-site ad solutions, which let your platform advertisers reach your audience across different digital touchpoints, not just on your platform.
This stage is where your strategy becomes more than just a side revenue stream – it starts driving value for your entire business by increasing traffic to your platform and enhancing your offering to your core sellers, suppliers and brands.
Scale up in three easy steps
Scaling your commerce media offering doesn’t have to be slow or tedious if you partner with the right tech provider.
Then, you can:
- Configure the audience and ad packages you want to offer.
- Skip the heavy and expensive internal development work requirement by integrating your product feed directly with the platform.
- Launch your new off-site ad offering – unlocking more revenue, enhancing your offering to advertisers and driving more traffic to your platform.
Things to consider
Keep in mind that you have a choice here too: you can create an open commerce media network – which makes your offering available to both your core advertising brands and external advertisers – or you can keep your commerce media offering exclusive to your internal advertising brands by creating a closed network.
My tip would just be to ensure your commerce media platform of choice offers you full visibility and control over your data, as well as analytics and reporting, so you know how your data is being used.
The opportunity gap is closing
I believe commerce media is no longer a “nice to have”, it’s an essential revenue driver that businesses with first-party data should be tapping into.
The good news is that you don’t have to build everything at once.
By starting with simple audience monetisation, expanding into off-site ads, and eventually developing a full commerce media network, you can unlock significant revenue in a phased, manageable way.
And who says no to that?
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