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TopIntroduction
The term digital advertising denotes all forms of advertising over the Internet to reach an audience and generate traffic. AT&T released the first banner ad in 1994 which is considered as the beginning of the development of digital advertising (WIRED Staff, 2010). Fuxman et al. (2018) state that digital advertising achieved higher spending than traditional advertising for the first time in 2013. After that, the budget spent on digital advertising has been increasing and it is expected to reach $375 billion until the end of 2021 (Dautovic, 2019).
According to the statistics in Dautovic (2019), the number of devices that have active ad blockers increased to 615 million in 2019, which is 473 million more than one year before in 2018. Moreover, it is reported that 76% of advertisers do not use behavioral data to target the audience. Improper targeting could be the reason why people use ad blockers. This means that people are overcrowded with ads they are not interested in.
Different groups of authors wrote about the essential role of business intelligence in digital advertising (Kursan & Mihić (2010), Kurniawan et al. (2014), Verma (2018)). Business intelligence (BI) refers to technologies and processes related to data collection, preparation, data analysis, and visualization. The goal of BI is to help organizations in the process of making final decisions that are considered intelligent and factual. Using BI, organizations can make predictions, analyze performance and customer behavior, and find ways to increase profit. BI supports data analysis, querying, reporting, and visualization. (Tableau, 2020).
Bhosale et al. (2020) described the role of business intelligence in digital marketing. They concluded that real-time execution in the domain of marketing increases the need for the application of the business intelligence and the knowledge of how to apply it. The authors of this study managed to find plenty of works related to the business intelligence understanding, but without a detailed description of the applied methods and reports that could be used. In response to the identified lack of literature, the aim of this study is to describe the most common methods of business intelligence application in digital marketing in detail and elaborate the resulting reports obtained through those methods.
More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to analyze which types of campaigns and targeting options bring the most audience to digital advertising. To accomplish this goal, the aim of this paper is to see how targeting options could be adjusted when displaying ads to users so that people see personalized ads. Furthermore, this paper aims to help companies to use the advantages of digital marketing without unnecessary loss of money and time. In this paper, the authors present how business intelligence helps businesses to make smart decisions in digital advertising and not to lose extra resources through a case study of tribeOS advertising platform.
TopBackground And Literature Review
This section presents the meaning and definition of digital advertising and business intelligence fields separately, and ways they can work together, through an overview of relevant literature.