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We work to turn data into something meaningful for businesses and public sector organisations that create benefits for you. We gather, analyse, combine, and process data to help organisations communicate and engage with consumers more effectively, saving them (and you) time and money.
Our marketing products and services help organisations to:
We’re here to make it clear and easy to understand:
We work with organisations to support them in gaining a better understanding of their customers through enhancing the information that they already know about you i.e. data they have directly collected from you or that you have provided. Based on the enriched view of their customers, Experian's clients are better enabled to engage with both their customers and prospects.
We do not serve the ads to you ourselves the publisher (social media site, media website, brand) will do this based on the consent that they have obtained to communicate with you.
If you would like to object to your personal data being used by Experian clients for prospecting services, you can opt-out by following the steps described on our Consumer Opt out page.
Segmentation is a way of describing a large set of people, households, and areas by dividing them into smaller groups that have similar or related characteristics - while maximising the difference between these groups.
Nearly every organisation in AU uses segmentation techniques in some form or other allowing them to communicate with individual groups more appropriately.
Increasingly, we use data to help our clients define segments for digital marketing, where brands are looking to place relevant advertising and marketing communication with Experian partners who sell advertising space online.
Experian’s segmentation products, of which the most widely used is Mosaic, are quite simple in concept.
In the case of Mosaic segmentation, we take anonymised and aggregate data from a variety of compliant sources and use statistical techniques to create a series of “types” that are likely to contain households with similar demographics, lifestyles and behaviours.
When the solution is finalised, those types are assigned to every household and postcode in AU, and can be used to:
None of the data inputs can be linked back to individual households or postcode areas – it is only the Mosaic type that is assigned and thousands of AU adults belong to each Mosaic type.
Once the Mosaic types have been created, we provide the types with names (e.g. ‘C10 – Power Couples’), and rich descriptions to describe the likely characteristics of the households or postcodes falling within them.
Our clients in the commercial world use these types or segments to understand the likely characteristics of their existing customers to ensure they are communicating relevantly to them or to find potential new customers who fall into the Mosaic types in which their existing customer are concentrated. Outside of the commercial world, the emergency services use segmentation to identify the types who are most at risk from crime or fires and public service organisations use it to direct resource to the most appropriate groups of the population.
Experian offers a variety of solutions to help you deliver effective and sophisticated digital advertising campaigns. Including Standard Audiences, Custom Audiences and first party data on-boarding. We have powered successful campaigns for clients of different sizes, from start-ups to large multi-national businesses. A thorough understanding of data, and an expert knowledge of the unique characteristics of the digital media space, enable us to deliver consistent performance at scale for a broad variety of clients.
In marketing, ‘linkage’ means connecting data from different online (or digital) and offline sources in order to identify an individual, household, location or device. It’s about bringing fragmented information into a consistent view of our clients’ customers so that they can understand your needs better. The benefit to you is that if a brand or organisation can identify you consistently across all the channels through which you engage with them (for example by email, through a website and even by post), they can try to ensure the offers and services marketed to you are relevant and consistent across all these channels, providing you with a better overall experience.
Increasingly, our linkage services are enabling organisations to support their more traditional offline marketing such as postal direct mail with digital marketing communications across email, social media, TV and video.
Our linkage database contains various ways of identifying an individual or the household or area in which they live — such as name, postal address, email address, location, device ID or IP address.
With this database we can connect online digital identifiers with our offline demographic, attribute, segmentation and modelled data, enabling insight to be applied. For example, creating a relevant audience for a digital marketing campaign where the publisher or social media platform has the appropriate permission to send marketing communications to you.
Linkage also allows organisations to create a single view of their customers, so they can communicate consistently and provide a better customer experience across all the channels through which you might engage with them. For example, this helps organisations to identify where devices are linked in order for them to communicate with these devices consistently.
We work with organisations who share their customer data with Experian where they have permission to do so; in order for Experian to analyse and determine the likely characteristics of their customers, helping to inform their own marketing activities such as direct marketing and location planning.
We undertake custom analytics projects for clients using a range of data that we process – personal data, anonymised individual level data and aggregated data (often relating to geographical areas). Wherever possible, we anonymise personal data so data is not personally identifiable during the analytics work. Examples of the projects we undertake include location planning for retailers or developing customised segmentations using a client’s own customer data.