Retargeting software helps companies serve display ads across the internet to users who have previously visited their website. Cookie-based retargeting tools track website visitors via pixels, which are added to a company’s website using JavaScript; these cookies do not impact a website user’s experience or a site’s performance. Once the visitor leaves the website, these pixels notify retargeting platforms to serve certain ads based on the pages that person visited on the original website. These tools help marketers focused their advertising budget on people who are already familiar with their brand and have engaged in some way.
To qualify for inclusion in the Retargeting category, a product must:
Attach pixels or identifiers to website visitors
Use cookies to serve a company’s ads to those website visitors across other sites online