Contextual Advertising

Contextual Advertising That Matches the Moment

Reaching the right audience isn't enough. What matters is reaching them when the content they're consuming makes them ready to respond.

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The Contextual Challenge

Ads Are Being Served. They're Not Always Being Received.

Ads That Go Unseen

42% of digital ads are never considered in-view. Bought impressions don't guarantee seen impressions. Placement environment determines whether an ad registers at all.

Context Is What Consumers Expect

94% of consumers prefer contextually relevant ads. Relevance isn't a nice-to-have. It's the baseline expectation of the people you're trying to reach.

Targeting Data Is Shrinking

35% of US iOS users have Limit Ad Tracking turned on. Behavioral signals are eroding. Contextual intelligence doesn't depend on them. It reads the moment, not the history.
Contextual Intelligence

Content Analyzed in Full. Before Every Impression.

Most contextual platforms read the topic of a page. GumGum's contextual intelligence reads the full page, covering text, images, video and audio, to understand exactly what someone is consuming and whether your brand belongs there.

Content Understanding:

Full content analysis goes beyond category labeling to understand tone, sentiment and visual context.

Audience Discovery:

Contextual signals surface adjacent categories and seasonal moments that standard segments miss.

Brand Safety:

Content is analyzed and classified before the impression is bought, so protection is built into every decision.
Why Contextual Works

Most Contextual Platforms Read the Topic. GumGum Reads the Moment.

Full-page intelligence across text, images, video and audio delivers placement precision that category-level targeting can't match, and a receptivity advantage on every impression.

The Signal

Present Over Past

What someone is actively consuming is the strongest signal of what they're open to right now. Contextual targeting puts your brand in moments where the audience is already primed to receive it.

The Reach

Beyond the Obvious Fit

Contextual signals surface audiences outside standard category targeting — seasonal moments, trending topics, and adjacent interests that behavioral segments miss entirely.

The Protection

Safe Before the Impression

Brand safety isn't applied after the fact. Content is analyzed before the bid, so your ads only appear in environments that match your brand's values and message.

Omnichannel Inventory

Built for Every Screen Your Audience Is On

GumGum buys across CTV, OLV and Display, with high-impact formats built for each environment.

Connected TV (CTV)

Reach streaming audiences with in-video, standard and pause ad formats across premium connected TV inventory.

Online Video (OLV)

Extend your video reach with instream and outstream placements across premium publisher sites and apps.

High Impact Display

Proprietary high-impact formats including Skins, Hang Time and Velocity, built to capture attention in contextually relevant environments.
Global Reach

Scale That Doesn't Come at the Cost of Quality

40,000 MFA-free publisher partners across 19 markets. Trusted by all major agency holding companies and independents alike, as well as 77% of Interbrand's best global brands. Reach at scale has never had to mean reach at risk.

500b

MONTHLY IMPRESSIONS

Reach that moves the needle across the open web and CTV, at any budget level.
~1b

MONTHLY UNIQUES

Nearly a billion people reached every month, across 19 markets worldwide.
40k

MFA-FREE PUBLISHERS

Direct access to premium editorial environments. Every publisher vetted, every impression clean.
Top 15

GLOBAL OMNICHANNEL SSP

Ranked among the top 15 SSPs worldwide by Jounce. The infrastructure behind some of the largest media buys on the open web.
In Their Words

They’ll Tell You Better Than We Can

GumGum’s header bidding solution with Prebid.js has enabled our publishers to seamlessly integrate numerous sources of demand along with GumGum’s own direct demand in unique, impactful ad experiences. Implementation was incredibly easy and has helped further our lucrative relationship.

Eric Hochberger
Founder
Mediavine

The Mindset Graph has been especially useful on the creative side. Many of our clients struggle to make creative changes mid-flight—it’s just not feasible. But using this tool during the discovery and planning phases lets us be more proactive. We’re able to get relevant creative into market earlier, matched to the mindset of the audience, which ultimately helps capture more attention.

Jacob Kiernan
Programmatic Account Director
Havas Media Group UK

GumGum’s Mindset Graph has helped surface affinities that will help inform future activation — like discovering that the audience for one of our FMCG clients was over-indexing in PC Gaming and Travel. The benefit of unlocking these insights will allow us to meet consumers in unexpected, high-engagement arenas.

Chris Appleton
Head of Programmatic+
PHD Media UK

The biggest value we’ve seen in the Mindset Graph so far is its ability to uncover unexpected opportunities—ones we wouldn’t typically spot using standard planning tools. Most platforms rely solely on what we feed in; this gives us something more because it’s grounded in real-time data. It’s like having an extra brain in the room. Even with our excellent internal planning tools, this still gives us a new dimension of insight—and it saves us a lot of time.

Chris Clarke
Programmatic Business Director
Havas Media Group UK

GumGum’s Mindset Graph gave us fresh, actionable insights that sparked new targeting ideas, balancing reach with relevance. It revealed powerful opportunities to connect with consumers we might have otherwise missed.

Jack Cantwell
Head of Digital
Carat Global

By leveraging the Mindset Graph, we’re able to navigate the complexities of the Open Web with precision, unlocking opportunities for true, personalized engagement.

Dan Glynn
Media Buying Lead
Heineken

The Mindset Graph allows us to tap into the Open Web’s full potential by understanding not just where audiences are, but why they’re there.

Kevin Lusakivana
Senior Campaign Manager, Digital Media
Pernod Ricard BE

The Mindset Graph is set to supercharge how GumGum can help us discover, understand, and engage audiences. We’re already using the Mindset Graph to uncover insights about our audiences, and we look forward to continued success as our campaigns progress!

Matt Tagg
Group Account Director
KINESSO UK&I

Great servicing, amazing ad units!

Omkar Naik
Media Buyer
Mindshare