ADS predictive segments

"Akamai has helped us meet our advertising ROI goals in all different times of the year – and especially during peak holiday and promotional periods. Their talent in dialing spend up or down based on what we're looking to accomplish has been a major help for Chico's FAS."
- Jenn McClain, Director of eCommerce Marketing, Chico's FAS
Connect your products and services to in-market buyers
   
Akamai ADS predictive segments enable multi-channel retailers, product manufacturers, travel sites, and telecom providers to drive incremental sales by accurately targeting buyers who are in-market for what they sell. ADS predictive segments are available at scale on Akamai's owned and operated ad network: acerno.

Akamai ADS predictive segments, part of the Advertising Decision Solutions line, use predictive modeling based on data from our industry's only online shopping data cooperative. It's made up of over 550 multi-channel retailers, product manufacturers, travel, and telecom websites who contribute data representing $13.5 billion worth of quarterly, anonymous consumer shopping transactions. This unique data set makes it possible for Akamai ADS to understand the distinctive behavioral patterns shoppers exhibit leading up to a purchase—and thus identify in-market consumers with accuracy.
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Benefits to your business Successful ADS predictive segments
   
Increase efficiency and scale
Identify and target only the buyers who are in-market today for what you sell. Once ADS predictive segments distinguish the right in-market audience, target them on the premium acerno ad network that reaches 100% of US online shoppers.

Decrease advertising risk
ADS predictive segments offer pay-for-performance, CPA pricing only, so you don’t pay at all unless a transaction occurs.

Significantly increase advertising conversion rates
ADS predictive segments drive over 10% of sales for some Akamai customers, in effect becoming a new sales channel for them.
Apparel Retailer: Internet Retailer Top 60
  • Drove 12.5% of online transactions in Q4 '08
  • Client since 2006 and grew revenue 140% in 2008
  • Spends more on predictive segments than search

Toy Retailer: Internet Retailer Top 100
  • Client since 2006 and grew revenue 71% in '08
  • Drove 8% of online transactions in Q4 '08
  • Average order value of $100
  • Successfully reached "power mom"

Consumer Electronics Manufacturer
  • New client
  • Drove 12% of online transactions in Q4 '08
  • Average order value of $1000
In-market consumers are six times more likely to make a purchase
 
Akamai ADS operates the industry's only online shopping data co-op:

140MM US consumers

30MM in-market (spikes during Q4)
10K-100K in-market for what you sell, right now

HOW IT WORKS:
Once Akamai ADS models identify a consumer as being in-market, we observe that he or she exhibits a higher frequency of online shopping activity:
  • performs 5X more shopping events,
  • initiates 8X more shopping carts, and
  • is 6X more likely to make a purchase than when not in-market.

High co-op transaction volumes/quarter
  • 6.3B data points
  • 41MM online transactions
  • 265MM online shopping carts
  • $13.5B in consumer spend (est.)
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