MUMBAI: Twitter, which launched the Twitter Publisher Network (TPN) to help advertisers connect with audiences beyond its social network last year, is now set to revamp the product. TPN has been renamed as Twitter Audience Platform in order to reflect the evolution of the product. 

The Twitter Audience Platform, which helps advertisers reach over 700 million people on and off Twitter, is expanding beyond mobile app installs and re-engagements, by offering advertisers the ability to drive two additional objectives: tweet engagements and video views, which are now available for the first time in beta to all managed clients globally. Secondly, the platform is launching new creative formats to help advertisers better engage with their in-app audience.

Drive video views and tweet engagements

Advertisers can now easily extend their promoted video and tweet engagement campaigns to the Twitter Audience Platform with a single click. Many of the targeting signals used on Twitter such as interest, username, and keyword can be applied to the campaigns across mobile apps. As on Twitter, promoted videos on the Twitter Audience Platform can play automatically on a device with all video being 100 per cent in-view.

New creative features

On the Twitter Audience Platform, promoted tweets are transformed into one of the platforms’ immersive ad formats including video, native ads, banners, and interstitials. For example:

• Tweet engagement campaigns on Twitter become interstitial and native ads
• Promoted video campaigns are turned into in-app video ads
• App install or re-engagement campaigns become interstitial or banner ads

The platform has also added creative features to interstitials to help advertisers extend their best content beyond Twitter. Users can now retweet and favourite directly from their Twitter Audience Platform ad. Twitter has also added customizable call to action buttons to help advertisers more efficiently drive their desired user action.

Advertiser success

According to Twitter, advertisers who run campaigns across both Twitter and the Twitter Audience Platform can double their reach and lower CPEs by as much as 30 per cent. Additionally, a June 2015 study that the platform commissioned from MediaScience shows that consumers — both on and off Twitter users — spent about 123 per cent more time with Twitter Audience Platform ads compared to traditional mobile interstitial ads. The research also showed that non-Twitter users who saw a Twitter Audience Platform ad expressed about 11 per cent more positive sentiment towards the brand advertiser.

Availability

The Twitter Audience Platform is now available globally to all managed clients driving Tweet engagements and video views. It is also being tested by select clients driving mobile app installs and re-engagements. Over the next few months, the platform has plans to expand the programme to other objectives, including website clicks and conversions.