Geographic Audience Segmentation Tool Brings Digital Targeting Tactics to Traditional Media

Dscover Maps (DMaps) is a geospatial insights tool that provides a detailed view into market composition by geography or location. Using Dstillery’s digital audiences and insights, DMaps brings digital targeting tactics to other forms of media, including out-of-home, TV, radio and direct mail.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dstillery, the leading applied data science company, today launched Dscover Maps (DMaps), a geospatial insights tool that provides a detailed view into market composition by geography or location. Using Dstillery’s digital audiences and insights, DMaps brings digital targeting tactics to other forms of media, including out-of-home, TV, radio and direct mail.

Using a privacy-compliant combination of consumer behavioral data -- including web, brand, location, mobile and contextual activities – DMaps brings a new level of scale and resolution to geospatial insights for brands. The tool’s versatile and multi-faceted capabilities apply Dstillery's industry leading audiences and data science to a variety of use cases, including ad sales support, media delivery and marketing research.

Marketers can use the location-based audience intelligence embedded in DMaps for a wide array of solutions, such as:

• Planning better ad campaigns
• Conducting deeper competitor analysis
• Scouting potential retail locations
• Engaging more relevant audiences for local political campaigns
• Performing smarter geographic market segmentation

“DMaps brings the digital and physical worlds together, giving our brand advertiser clients a clear view of where their best potential consumers are and allowing us to optimize media investment to the most efficient locations,” said Eric Z. Sherman, SVP Insights & Analytics at GSTV, a data-driven, national video network and early adopter of DMaps. “The ability to tap into Dstillery’s insights and create real-time, geospatial visualizations is incredibly powerful, and it helps us deliver the data-driven targeting solutions that brand advertisers are looking for.”

DMaps also integrates with media vendors, allowing them to create smarter media plans for their brand clients. The geospatial insights can be used in combination with marketer first party data to create unique niche segments specifically geared towards the marketer’s initiatives and goals.

“DMaps is a powerful tool for understanding what audiences are present in Captivate’s locations,” said Neil Shapiro, Vice President of Digital Sales at Captivate, North America’s leading digital video office network. “This lets us apply real-world insights and data-driven targeting to our campaigns. By consolidating multiple data signals into an easy-to-use and customizable platform, we can bring smarter thinking to all of our advertising partners.”

“For 10 years, Dstillery has created unique audience segments that perform across a variety of goals and verticals in the digital ad space,” said Michael Guzewicz, Business Development Manager at Dstillery. “For years, offline data has been informing both online and traditional media campaigns. Now, DMaps allows marketers to visualize their target audiences across geographies and physical locations nationwide like never before. This opens the door for digital insights to inform campaigns of any medium.”

To learn more about DMaps, contact Michael Guzewicz at michael@dstillery.com.

About Dstillery
Dstillery is the marketing & advertising industry's leading applied data science company, helping Fortune 500 companies and brands unlock their growth potential by finding and targeting their highest value prospective customers.

Since 2008, Dstillery’s team of data scientists and engineers has earned the industry's top distinctions for brand safety, machine learning innovation and high performance media activation. We deliver actionable consumer insights from our reference data set of over 300 million anonymous US online and offline behavioral profiles that are updated on a daily basis, driving the full spectrum of marketing research and media business objectives. That’s why marquee brands in Retail, CPG, Finance, Luxury, B2B, Telco, Travel, and Tech use Dstillery’s platform to access insights, data and activation solutions to create more meaningful consumer touch points across multiple channels.

To learn more, visit us at www.dstillery.com or follow us on Twitter @Dstillery.

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