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The net (unduplicated) count or percent of the defined universe of the target audience exposed to content, advertising, or a specific ad, in a Screen within a defined time frame. This time frame can be a day, week, or month, or even less-frequent time periods although more frequent reports are generally desirable to users. (Source: MRC Digital Place-Based Audience Measurement Standards Version 1)

The number of unique web users potentially seeing a website one or more times in a given time period expressed as a percentage of the total active web population for that period.

Information, data or content delivered immediately with no delay in the processing of requests, other than the time necessary for the data to travel over the Internet.

A way of transacting media that allows an individual ad impression to be put up for bid in real time. This is done through a programmatic on-the spot auction, which is similar to how financial markets operate. RTB allows for addressable advertising; the ability to serve ads to consumers directly based on their demographic, psychographic, or behavioural attributes. AI plays a key role in bid adjustments and targeting.

RTB is a protocol that enables the valuation and bidding on individual ad impressions in real time. The buying takes place through online media exchanges – basically media marketplaces – which connect sellers (publishers) and buyers (advertisers).

In market research, a respondent may be asked to remember the advertising they have seen. This is known as recall.

A standard business process whose purpose is to collect written information regarding suppliers. 

Advertising messaging influencing the consumer perspective and drive purchase decisions or the desired brand impact.

Retail Media refers to the digital advertising space, retail data assets and in-store opportunities a retailer or marketplace owns, which is then made available to brands for the execution of advertising campaigns. Campaign goals include (but are not limited to) brand awareness, driving sales and new product discovery.

Retail Media includes an increasing range of digital opportunities which can be segmented into off-site, on-site and in-store environments. Retail Media also includes the targeting, optimisation and measurement elements of digital campaigns.