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The number of digital campaign analytics technologies and companies has blossomed, and their tags are proliferating. MediaMind found that the number of ads with two or more third party tags -- which help track ad interactions, brand impact, and measure for campaign optimization -- rose 267% from 2011 to 2013. Today, almost a third of digital ads employ more than one tag, up from around 25% in 2011.
Advertisers doing lots of geo-targeted advertising with a variety highly-targeted messages based on location and demographic information tend to have the most tag appendages, such as auto, telecom and CPG brands.
The number of conversion tags, which track whether people complete an action via an ad, such as signing up to download a white paper or purchasing an item, is way up, along with the number of events they track. The number of tags used by the top 10% of advertisers rose 49% since 2010, and events tracked leapt 460%.