dynamic creative optimization

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Definition

Technology that automatically assembles personalized ads from various creative components based on user data, serving different headlines, images, and calls-to-action to different people. Mass customization meets surveillance capitalism in a beautiful, algorithmically-optimized dance.

Example Usage

Our DCO campaign showed dog photos to dog owners and cat photos to cat owners, because apparently we've achieved peak personalization.

Origin

Display advertising technology from the mid-2010s as programmatic became sophisticated

Fun Fact

A single DCO campaign can theoretically generate millions of unique ad variations, proving that infinite monkey theorem applies to advertising too—except the monkeys are algorithms.

Source: Programmatic advertising technology terminology

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