Mi9 throws down the glove to Facebook in the NZ data space

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Viaduct Harbour-based Mi9 New Zealand – a subsidiary of Nine Australia – has significantly expanded its data offering by announcing the launch of a data partnership with Experian last night.

The partnership includes the ability to target Mosaic segments, household segments, and match clients’ offline databases to the 2.1 million Microsoft IDs, and is aimed at helping New Zealand marketers target consumers across the Mi9 network more effectively.

The move expands the segmentation available to New Zealand marketers across the Mi9 network of premium digital environments, which includes more than 2.6 million desktop users across Outlook, Skype, MSN, Daily Mail and Ticketek.

“By Microsoft sending its 2.1 million authenticated IDs to Experian we now have in market Experian’s product portfolio – one of the most powerful data products available globally,” said Mi9 NZ MD Rhys Heron.

“It gives us all the incredible household segments that are available in other markets around the world.

“By having these crucial data sources and customer segments we are able to compete with the global tech platforms and give marketers greater value for money when they buy across our network.”

Proof by trial
Customers who have trialled the new product found that it helped them draw out better insights and ensure their online campaigns were more effective.

“Mi9 and Experian helped us to understand our audience better by analysing the traffic to our site,” said Latitude Financial Services senior marketing manager Lindsey Henson. We then used these insights to plan a strategic campaign to an engaged audience.

“Experian has enabled us to optimise our adspend by targeting more relevant users for our products to deliver a successful pilot campaign,” she said.

Mi9 NZ has also launched a product called Audience Match and will now allow the agency to compete head-to-head with Facebook and their Custom Audience product by allowing marketers to use their offline database for targeting known customers across the Microsoft network.

With the additional socioeconomic segments and the Mosaic product, Mi9’s full suite of Experian-targeting capabilities, in conjunction with their Microsoft data, allows for a full 360-view of their audience.


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