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GroundTruth adds ‘pay per SKU’ model to its performance location products

Targeting CPG brands, it only asks them to pay for actual in-store sales.

Greg Sterling on March 14, 2018 at 10:01 am
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Last year, location intelligence company GroundTruth introduced a “cost per visit” ad model. It uses mobile location data to track ad exposures to store visits and only asks retailers and brands to pay for foot traffic, rather than impressions or clicks.

Yesterday, the company doubled down on the model, announcing an offering specifically for CPG (consumer packaged goods) brands. It asks CPG companies to only pay for “SKU-level sales” in stores. The company is now bundling the CPV (cost per visit) and pay-per-SKU (PPS) models under the heading “true performance.” SKU stands for “stock keeping unit” and is essentially product-level data.

CPG companies spend on average more than $200 billion on marketing annually, according to various industry estimates, and more than 50 percent of that across the industry is now digital. However, there’s some skepticism in these companies about the efficacy of digital marketing (vs. traditional). Procter & Gamble and Unilever are high-profile examples of CPG companies that have expressed very public dissatisfaction with digital media in the recent past.

While GroundTruth didn’t develop its PPS product specifically for P&G and Unilever, it minimizes or substantially eliminates the perceived risk (not including brand safety) of digital marketing for these companies. Verification of in-store sales comes from a group of third-party vendors: IRI, Kantar Worldpanel, Nielsen Catalina Solutions and Ansa. In 2015, PlaceIQ teamed up with Kantar for digital ad targeting and attribution; however, it didn’t introduce a sales-based ad model.

GroundTruth CMO Eric Hadley says that the company’s ability to offer CPV and PPS models is based on the quality of its data and the company’s sophistication and confidence in predicting visits and shopper behavior. GroundTruth says it has visibility into more than 2 billion store visits per month.

GroundTruth CPV is also available in the UK.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Marketing Land. Staff authors are listed here.



About The Author

Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

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