DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Share Rocket, Inc. today announced another evolution in its suite of data products with the launch of the MONETIZE social media monetization platform. Powered by the company’s new engagement-based social currency, the MONETIZE platform will enable local broadcasters and publishers to generate meaningful and previously-untapped revenue from their highly-engaged social audiences and content. Available to select Share Rocket customers in Q3 2017, broadcasters will be able to sell social campaigns on an upfront basis for the first time -- similar to the way they sell traditional television advertising. Share Rocket will provide the exclusive currency for these new advertising partnerships and an operations platform for managing this new premium inventory category.
One of the industry's most important trends is the growing size of publishers' and broadcasters' audiences across social platforms such as Facebook. In many cases, these audiences are already bigger than the linear and web audiences combined. Broadcasters and publishers have not had a meaningful or scalable way to take advantage of premium, socially-distributed content’s appeal -- until now.
“Our clients generate some of the most-engaging content published on social platforms,” said Chris Kraft, CEO of Share Rocket. “Over the last three years, we have seen the struggle broadcasters and publishers of all sizes have encountered in trying to monetize their social audiences in a meaningful way. The Share Rocket currency and MONETIZE platform represents the first scalable strategy to directly monetize social media content distribution.”
New Currency for Social Opens up New Revenue Opportunities for
Publishers
Share Rocket has developed a new currency and way to
value social audiences. Engagement is the hallmark metric of social
media success and Share Rocket’s new currency puts a high value on
engaging content. The currency unlocks the value of this new premium
social inventory category and creates a new source of revenue for
publishers, while simultaneously giving advertisers more opportunities
to reach customers.
Broadcasters and Publishers Social Audiences and Content Can Now Be
Valued and Sold to Advertisers
MONETIZE will allow broadcasters
and publishers to see exactly what their social audience and
socially-distributed content is worth in monetary value. The platform
automatically categorizes this new ad inventory based on the type and
format of content. Content is then valued by category and by post,
allowing it to be sold directly by the publisher to advertising
partners. MONETIZE gives publishers complete control of the sales
process and they keep 100% of revenue generated from ad sales.
Share Rocket’s MONETIZE platform will be previewed at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 24, 2017.
About Share Rocket
Share Rocket is a social media ratings
and audience insights company providing broadcasters and digital
publishers an easy way to measure, manage and monetize their social
media equity. Share Rocket is the emerging standard social media ratings
and currency for the broadcast industry. Additional information is
available at http://www.sharerocket.com,
as well as on Twitter
and Facebook.
