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Retargeting / remarketing

Retargeting, also known as remarketing, displays personalized ads in online advertising campaigns. It engages users after they’ve bounced from your website and is based on their behavior, displayed during their visit.

By collecting data about the sites they’ve visited, actions they’ve performed and events they’ve triggered, you are able to create audiences/segments based on these and personalize the content.

The goal is to reach users, who haven’t performed desired actions and generate more Conversion s, thus improve the Conversion rate .

More about retargeting on the Piwik PRO blog:

  • University website personalization: First-party data strategies for student recruitment and retention

    University websites receive millions of visits annually from diverse audiences – prospective students, admitted students weighing their options, current undergraduates, graduate students, parents, alumni, and faculty. Yet most institutions serve identical content to all these visitors, missing critical opportunities to engage each audience with relevant information.

  • Digital marketing in the energy sector: Key challenges and fixes

    Summary The European energy and utilities sector is changing quickly. Customers expect smooth digital experiences, personalized communication, and easy access to their data. At the same time, regulators continue to tighten privacy and security standards across the EU. For marketing teams, this creates a familiar dilemma – how to deliver relevant, data-driven experiences while staying…

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