Advocado Ramps Up with Bob Gold & Associates as Public Relations Agency of Record

Adtech Pioneer Teams with PR Pros to Promote the Power of Real-Time Data Analytics for Cross-Media Advertising

Advocado, a cross-media data management platform fueling advertising performance, has selected Bob Gold & Associates, a nationally recognized boutique public relations and marketing agency, as its PR agency of record. The agency will help promote Advocado’s data-driven approach for improving multi-screen campaigns in real time, and ultimately, connecting the dots between linear advertising and digital behavior.

Advocado’s platform makes advertising perform better by using TV ads or in-program content to trigger real-time actions across search, social and shopping platforms. The advanced solution capitalizes on micro-moments by perfectly timing the start and stop of Google Ad-word bid adjustments at the exact moment a viewer engages with a TV ad.

“Bob Gold and his award-winning team are recognized throughout the industry for the effective communication and campaigns as utilized by everyone from Fortune 100 companies to startups,” said Brian Handrigan, Co-founder and CEO of Advocado. “Data is the new currency in AdTech, and our cutting-edge technology makes us the industry’s Fort Knox. With their expertise, Bob Gold & Associates can help tell our story can be told in a powerful way.”

“Advocado’s sophisticated technology and real-time audience analytics provides advertisers, media companies and agencies with the insights they need to optimize ads immediately, maximize ROI, reach campaign goals, and cultivate long-lasting strategic partnerships. It’s becoming remarkably clear that data is the new currency in AdTech, where it fills a critical market share as the industry rapidly changes and fragments,” said Bob Gold, President of Bob Gold & Associates. “That’s where Advocado comes in – their innovative technology is a one-stop solution that helps decipher digital behavior, and ultimately, the science to understanding and predicting how to best motivate viewers to engage.”

Available to advertisers worldwide, the advertising to marketing platform helps power over 210 local US markets and is currently the most robust real-time TV ad insights platform. The advanced solution uses TV signals via patented watermark technology, natural language processing, automated content recognition, and real-time weather to connect offline and online audience data to reveal and influence the entire customer journey. Advocado’s success has been realized since its launch in 2018, with some clients achieving as much as 1,100% ROI. The data management platform captured the attention of research powerhouse, Gartner, who named Advocado a “Cool Vendor” as part of its May 2019 “Cool Vendors in Advertising” report. With an expanding product roadmap and data-intensive approach, Advocado continues to pioneer the space between TV and digital advertising, empowering brands with the insights they need to develop impactful campaigns and partnerships.