Category Archives: Market intelligence

Full IAB taxonomy for content classification now available

The surge of content marketing, based on the creation and distribution of valuable content, is a reality. The objective is no longer solely to advertise but to engage and offer valuable experiences to the market as well. In this context, precision in content classification is becoming essential. And that’s why we implemented a new automatic content classifier according to the full IAB taxonomy.

Therefore, since including tier 3 of the content taxonomy to the categorization categories of our IAB model last year, we have chosen to complement it by providing the complete ontology. In line with the Content Taxonomy, published in 2017 and updated in 2020 by the IAB Tech Lab (Interactive Advertising Bureau), this classification includes the remaining 60 categories that make up tier 4.  A total categorization of over 698 categories, hierarchized into four tiers, is thus, offered. We have kept the unique identifier that IAB assigns to each one of its categories, as well as their name, through which its parent categories can be found.

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IAB Taxonomy Level 3 now available in our Deep Categorization API

IAB - Interactive Advertising BureauDigital marketing is becoming a fundamental pillar, by leaps and bounds, in the business plans of practically every business model. Methods are being refined and the search for the connection between brand and user is expected to become increasingly more precise: a related advertisement is no longer sufficient, now the advertisement must appear at the right time and in the right place. This is where categorization proves to be an exceedingly useful tool.

That is why, at MeaningCloud, we have improved our IAB categorization model in English, that is integrated in our Deep Categorization API:

  • Adding a third level of content taxonomy to the hierarchy of categories (IAB Taxonomy Level 3).
  • Improving the precision of pre-existing categories.
  • Including the unique identifiers defined by IAB itself for each of the categories.

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Use of Text Analytics in Marketing Research

With this post, we start a series dedicated to the use of our Text Analytics technology in the field of R&D in different sectors. This post is dedicated to the use of Text Analytics in Marketing Research.  First of all, we would like to thank the researchers who have selected our services (within a wide range of competitors) as a basis for their research or innovation projects.

Marketing Research

The applications of Text Analytics in marketing are countless. That is why more and more companies are using these tools, starting with giants like Nielsen or TNS. Text analysis driven by natural language processing (NLP) is helping to transform digital marketing strategies. There are several uses for it in the company: evaluating marketing impact, optimizing customer service and SEO, making the most of influencer marketing, and significantly improving social listening. We will elaborate on this last topic in a future post.

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Scale and optimize your Market Intelligence processes with text analytics

Competing in the 21st century requires a 360º vision of our markets (customers, competitors, suppliers, technologies, regulation). Market Intelligence is becoming increasingly important; but, its dependence on manual processes, that are not very scalable, renders its application in decision making difficult. Deep text analytics allows for more scalable and actionable Market Intelligence.

Market Intelligence: benefits and limitations

Market Intelligence consists of collecting information about a certain market in a broad sense (i.e. its customers, competitors, partners and supply chain, investors, economic, legal and technological environment…) to extract actionable insights that can be used for strategic decision-making.

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Recorded webinar: Deep Text Analytics for More Scalable and Valuable Market Intelligence

Thank you for your interest in our webinar “Use Deep Text Analytics to Achieve More Scalable and Valuable Market Intelligence” held on June 23rd.

We explained how deep text analytics automatically understand detailed Market Intelligence information and enable applications that enable you to identify business opportunities and capture value from your market much more effectively.

In the session we covered these items:

  • Introduction to Market Intelligence
    • Benefits and limitations
  • Applying deep text analytics
    • Integrating multiple sources
    • Discovering business opportunities
    • Understanding our customers in depth
    • Analyzing the environment
    • Detecting signs of growth

Interested? Here you have the presentation and the recording of the webinar.

(También presentamos este webinar en español. Tenéis la grabación aquí.)

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Leverage Text Analytics to Boost your Market Intelligence (webinar)

Market Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence are essential for the survival and progress of companies. Nevertheless, to perform them with the essential quality- and speed-requirements  involves analyzing an extreme volume and variety of information sources: social comments, news, legislation, scientific articles, patents and various external websites.

Market IntelligenceIn many cases this requires a handcrafted process of manually reviewing content to extract the elements of information that really serve to make strategic decisions. A process that does not scale, is inefficient and expensive.

Deep text analysis allows us to optimize and accelerate the process, not only by detecting mentions of companies or brands and categorizing content thematically, but also by automatically extracting meaningful sematic relationships between topics, discovering new emerging issues and summarizing documents to make the use of that wealth of content faster and more efficient.

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