IAG Launches Travel Retail Media Network With Unified Targeting
· 20h ago · Originally reported by Adweek
IAG, the parent company of British Airways, is launching a new media network aimed at offering advertisers a unified approach and deeper audience targeting. The move signals airlines' growing push into retail media, monetizing their customer data and travel touchpoints.
Why it matters
Retail media is expanding beyond traditional retailers into travel, giving advertisers new first-party data-driven channels as third-party cookies decline.
Explain it like I’m new here
It's like an airline turning its boarding passes and lounges into a mini shopping mall where brands can show ads to travelers.
Terms in this story
Audience segment
An audience segment is a group of people or devices defined by shared characteristics, such as demographics, interests, purchase behaviour or intent, used to target or measure advertising.
Targeting
Targeting is choosing which people, contexts, places, devices or times should see an ad, so that the budget is spent on the audiences most likely to respond.
Retail media
Retail media is advertising sold by retailers, on their own websites, apps and stores or elsewhere using their shopper data, letting brands reach customers close to the point of purchase.
Retail media network (RMN)
A retail media network (RMN) is a retailer's advertising business, including its ad inventory, shopper data, ad technology and sales team, that sells ads to brands on and off the retailer's properties.
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