11 Nov 2020

Helping UK SMEs unlock the value of digital advertising

Today in collaboration with our client IAB UK, we've launched a tool to help UK SMEs unlock the value of digital advertising for their brand, products and services in order to drive more sales, raise awareness of their company and help them succeed.

In June 2020 IAB UK published a research piece "Powering Up". Drawing on evidence from nearly 1,200 UK SMEs, "Powering Up" explores how small businesses are using digital advertising, where they feel it excels and where more support is needed from the digital industry to help the market’s recovery in the wake of COVID-19.

Powering Up: Helping UK SMEs unlock the value of digital advertising

The tool was born out of one of the core pieces of feedback the research found being that SMEs need a tailored, interactive experience to help them discover why digital advertising is effective for reaching their customers and building brands.

The tool has two primary objectives:

Encourage SMEs who currently don’t invest in digital advertising to take their first steps
Empower SMEs who already spend on digital advertising to discover new channels and to use it more effectively

We continue to work with IAB UK on a rich roadmap of feature improvements for their website.

To find out more about the SME Tool, visit www.iabuk.com/poweringup/tool

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Data driven personalisation

As Acquia partners, we’ve worked with their Lift product for several of our clients, employing the platform in different ways.

Acquia Lift allows us to gather the insights we need to create and deliver targeted, in-context experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and loyalty.

Our most recently launched project (now live in beta) leverages and extends Lift and Content Hub to provide a truly personalised browsing experience for Institute of Physics members.

IOP’s personalised platform

Using the Content Hub component of Lift, we syndicate content from a range of the IOP’s digital properties, all built on different platforms. As Lift only accepts content from Drupal sources, we created a Drupal-based proxy - called CHAP (Content Hub API Proxy) - which passes the content up to the Content Hub platform for syndication.

That content is then displayed alongside on-site content on the IOP’s new web platform (designed and built by Catch). There, members can log in and - using our simple onboarding process combined with the all-new global taxonomy we devised - personalise their experience with the IOP.

See Acquia Lift for The Institute of Physics at http://beta.iop.org, or get in touch with us to learn more about how we can deliver targeted, in-context experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and loyalty for you.