IgnitionOne Launches Industry First Engagement Optimisation Solution

LONDON, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Digital Marketing Suite (DMS) offers brand marketers the ability to optimise ad spend based on behaviours and interests

Photobox says "IgnitionOne's latest innovation is huge"

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IgnitionOne, the global leader in digital marketing solutions, is launching an industry-first Engagement Optimisation offering, which addresses a glaring need for measurability of digital advertising for brand marketers.

Engagement Optimisation measures a website visitor's level of on-site activity in order to show the effectiveness of tracked media channels. This metric allows the marketer to focus media budgets on the advertising that creates the most visitor engagement and sales.

Engagement metrics that marketers can measure and apply to their digital media include:

• IgnitionOne's proprietary Engagement Score, which places a numerical value on each website visitor's level of involvement and propensity to act - a critical tool when seeking to optimise media
• Average Engagement Score change per session
• Time spent on a website
• Frequency of visits
• Average page views per session
• Total new users per date range
• Total returning users per date range, and
• Categories of interest on the website

Until now, marketers were only able to optimise media spend against specific direct-response metrics such as clicks and conversions. IgnitionOne's quantum leap in engagement measurement and optimisation offers brand marketers the opportunity to measure the effectiveness of advertising towards reaching brand goals.

Engagement Optimisation is seamlessly integrated within IgnitionOne's Digital Marketing Suite (DMS), which allows marketers to manage, measure and optimise their digital media, attribution and website conversion from a centralised platform and singular tagging system.

"Engagement Optimisation will change how brand marketers measure their online performance, similarly to how Attribution changed online ad measurement when we led the industry by introducing it to our platform three years ago. By understanding people's engagement levels, marketers can optimise media even more effectively to increase brand goals," said Will Margiloff, CEO of IgnitionOne. "Our objective is to simplify and streamline digital marketing, and the addition of Engagement Optimisation to our Digital Marketing Suite is a landmark step in that evolution."

In its beta phase, Engagement Optimisation was tested by Europe's leader in printing and personal publishing, PhotoBox. The results caught the attention of Econsultancy and IgnitionOne was awarded the 'Innovation in Web Analytics and Optimisation' title at its awards held on 23 February.

Jamie Forshaw, Head of Performance Marketing at PhotoBox, agreed: "The potential of IgnitionOne's latest innovation is huge. It would enable us to further understand how digital media is driving our brand forward, and in particular what aspects deliver real, concrete ROI. In today's marketplace this is crucial. With such a vast array of digital marketing tactics on offer, we need to dissect what works best, then focus on these pinnacles by investing time, energy and resources into delivering them to the highest standard."

About IgnitionOne

IgnitionOne, a global leader in digital marketing solutions, enables companies to integrate cross-channel marketing efforts within one platform, allowing for deeper insights and greater online success. Managing over £600m of advertising annually across search, display and social, IgnitionOne provides the world's top marketers with media optimisation, cross-channel attribution and website conversion solutions. IgnitionOne's solutions are backed by proprietary, best of breed technology: IgnitionOne's Digital Marketing Suite®.

IgnitionOne currently powers more than £19 billion in revenue each year for some of the world's leading online marketers and agencies, including General Motors, Fiat, MRM Worldwide, LBi, Golley Slater and more.

For more information, please visit http://www.ignitionone.com or follow the company on Twitter @ignitionone.