Quantcast Easy Tag is an easy to implement Javascript tag (or pixel), that is placed in a common file (i.e., the footer) that fires on all site pages. The tag should go before the </body> and any other measurement tags.
Tagging Benefits
- Better Ad Targeting and Performance through a deeper understanding of your ideal customer. A fully tagged site improves campaign performance by 16%*
- Deep Audience Insights for every page of your website helps you understand your customer’s journey and the effectiveness of your media mix (via Audience Segments)
- New Attribution Insights allow you to understand the effectiveness of prospecting and retargeting which is essential for new customer acquisition.
- For campaigns impacted by GDPR, the Quantcast EasyTag allows for seamless flow of granted cookie consent to Quantcast via Quantcast Choice
*16% represents the average campaign performance lift based on an internal Quantcast study of over 4,000 campaigns.
Technical Details
Speed: The Quantcast Easy Tag is asynchronous; it loads in the background and does not slow down the load time of the page.
- The average Quantcast tag load time (in the background) is between 40-150ms.
- The tag script size is typically between 4-12kb and is minified and gzipped to ensure optimal performance
Reliability: Quantcast uses a globally distributed server infrastructure. Traffic is routed to the most appropriate server through the use of DNS and BGP techniques to achieve the lowest latency possible.
- We use a sophisticated alert and monitoring system to check that the systems are working correctly and use third-party systems (Akamai, Keynote and Gomez) to monitor the servers.
- We have a dedicated operations team who are able to swiftly react t o issues or escalate as appropriate.
Trusted & Privacy-Safe: We do not sell your Audience or share it with any other Advertiser.
- We collect anonymous traffic data from over 100 million web and mobile destinations. Some examples of the data parameters collected include referral URL, screen resolution, browser version, OS type and page URL.
- We do not use or collect directly identifiable information for our measurement or targeting products (our full privacy policy).
- We utilize standard SSL encryption for all data transfer between pixel servers and the central compute cluster to ensure complete data privacy.
Security: Protecting our network from unauthorized access is of utmost importance.
- Our Internet-facing systems are regularly updated and hardened against attack.
- We regularly employ outside penetration test companies to test the security of the infrastructure, and use several security measures to restrict network and server access. We also obligate vendors and partners to commit to similar standards as applicable.
Committed to Consumer Transparency & Choice: Quantcast is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and participates in the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program.
- Each of these programs provides an opt-out feature where consumers can choose not to receive targeted advertising from any NAI or DAA affiliate. These links will take you to the NAI opt out and the DAA opt out.
- Quantcast also participates in the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) self-regulatory program. Users located in the European Union may prefer to use the EDAA opt out.
- Quantcast is committed to helping the digital ecosystem comply with GDPR, which went into effect on May 25 2018. We are committed to offering our clients options for both gaining consent (via our CMP, Quantcast Choice, or any other IAB Europe Framework-based CMP), and through our Easy Tag pixel enabling consent to flow from your site to our servers.
Ready to begin? For step-by-step instructions on implementing the Quantcast tag, see our implementation guides and vertical-specific best practices for tagging.
Need additional information? See our FAQ: Tagging for Advertise.