Digital Optimization partners with GWI to drive local and regional growth
Digital Optimization becomes one of the first African independent agencies to be GWI-certified and joins some of the world’s most iconic agencies and brands that have access to its market-leading research and solutions.
Through its flagship study representing 2.6 billion consumers globally, GWI provides consumer insights across 46 markets to the most renowned brands, agencies and media organizations. Picture: iStock
New Generation Awards 2020 “Small Agency of the Year” Digital Optimization and GlobalWebIndex (GWI), the leading target audience company, today announce their strategic partnership to drive performance and growth.
Through its flagship study representing 2.6 billion consumers globally, GWI provides consumer insights across 46 markets to the most renowned brands, agencies and media organizations. Digital Optimization becomes one of the first African independent agencies to be GWI-certified and joins some of the world’s most iconic agencies and brands that have access to its market-leading research and solutions.
Dani Morley, CEO of Digital Optimization, says the partnership with GWI forms an integral part of Digital Optimisation’s broader business strategy. “As a company, we are obsessed with our client’s performance and growth. To drive this performance, we need to have access to trusted data to make informed audience profiling decisions. GWI enables this. The insights gleaned from GWI data allows us to shape our strategic thinking and delivery on e-commerce, lead generation, digital media and social strategies.
“At Digital Optimization, our approach is to combine our local, entrepreneurial, agile Indie DNA with the power of globally-recognised, world-leading, heavy-weight partners, such as GWI.”
“We’re delighted to be partnering with Digital Optimization at such a crucial period in time”, says Sebastian Hedencrona, Chief Growth Officer at GWI. “As budgets tighten and the pressure on agencies to deliver fast results mounts, it’s never been more important to understand your audiences and how exactly they’re changing – and this is an agency that knows the value in being informed. Since the coronavirus outbreak, consumer behaviours and mindsets have been changing at rates we’ve never seen. Our aim, as always, is to bring that much-needed insight to every agency to help them succeed. Our partners play a key role in helping us achieve that – on a global, local, and regional level.”
Morley continues: “Our partnership with GWI gives us the benefit and insight into rich, customized research to identify key consumer trends and opportunities. Not only does GWI provide us with customer journey mapping and targeting validation capabilities, but we are able to tap into a representation of over 2 billion people, in over 40 countries with over 40,000 profiling attributes, making us truly local and internationally capable.
Access to GWI provides us with the ability to find and validate our client’s ideal target segments, with locally relevant insight into attitudes, interests and perceptions in a way that we have not been able to achieve previously. We can then map the behaviours of these segments to identify the touchpoints and media moments that matter. Quality customer profiling, quality conversion and quality lead strategies have to start here. Developing a nurturing CRM strategy is only valuable if our customers are the right profile from the beginning and this enables us to deliver loyalty, profit and an advantage over other brands.”
Morley believes that as marketing budgets are tightened, and Chief Marketing Officers are under the baton to produce results, there will be an increasing demand for paid media agencies and performance marketing agencies to deliver high value ROI and bottom-line impact. She believes that the GWI partnership with Digital Optimization is a critical element in its ability to deliver on high performance and growth for its clients.
About Digital Optimization
Digital Optimization is an award winning – data & technology led – digital media business, obsessed with performance. The agency is an agile digital tribe designed to deliver end-to-end digital performance solutions based on the goals that matter to you the most. To consistently achieve outstanding results with digital media, e-commerce, lead generation and SEO solutions that is driven by data, programmatic technology and many years of experience.
About GWI
GlobalWebIndex (GWI) is a target audience company that provides consumer insight across 46 countries to the world’s leading brands, communication agencies and media organizations. Among a range of leading data products available alongside its flagship survey are its B2B data set, GWI Work, which analyzes professionals across 10 global markets, and its TV reach and frequency solution, which enables advertisers to target previously untapped audiences.
