AI-powered audience targeting without cookies

Discover how smart data takes your media strategies to the next level.

The challenge:

Targeting without third-party cookies

Two-thirds of all internet users can no longer be identified via third-party cookies today. Classic cookie-based targeting is losing reach massively, whilst data protection regulations and browser restrictions increase the pressure further.

Advertisers face the question: How do you reach the right target audience when personal data disappears?

The solution:

AI-powered targeting

NE.R.O. AI relies on Universal Data Signals instead of cookies and personalised IDs. The NE.R.O. AI Engine analyses over 150,000 new editorial articles daily using a Large Language Model and recognises:

 

  • Interests & Intent (e.g. product search, lifestyle topics)
  • Emotional Signals (e.g. joy, motivation)
  • Values & Psychographic Characteristics (e.g. sustainability, control, community)

 

Advertising is delivered exactly where the context matches the brand and user motivation optimally – at article level, in real time and completely cookieless.

How it works

NE.R.O. AI scans over 150,000 new articles and content items from the programmatically available web daily.

A specially trained Large Language Model analyses the content for topics, context, emotionality, psychographic signals and intent.

Each article is assigned an individual set of up to fifty defined targeting attributes (e.g. "test-drive intent", "sustainability", "business", etc.).

Why use NE.R.O. AI?

Future-Proof & GDPR-Compliant

No cookies, no user consent requirement – NE.R.O. AI works completely independently of third-party data.

Maximum Reach

Reach the 66% of users who are no longer addressable via classic cookies and personalised IDs – with standard or high-impact formats.

Performance Without Compromise

Campaigns with NE.R.O. AI show on average +21% higher CTR, -11% lower bounce rate and +90% longer dwell time compared to cookie-based approaches.

Comprehensive Targeting Options

With NE.R.O. AI, all common target audience definitions and personas can be transformed into cookie- and ID-lessly activatable audiences: from classic content targeting via user interests through to individual value systems, psychographic characteristics and even intent.

Brand-Safe & High-Quality

Our four-stage brand safety system ensures maximum campaign security through hard blocking of sensitive topics, sentiment analysis to exclude negative content, manual onboarding of new URLs and supplementary DSP-integrated safety tools.

Internationally Scalable

The NE.R.O. AI Engine is trained in over thirty languages and can be deployed internationally – in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, USA, Italy, Spain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and many other markets.

Leverage all target group signals

Reach your target audience based on their interests and lifestyle or address users with concrete purchase intent (e.g. in the context of product comparisons or targeted information searches).

Use psychographic signals to reach your target audiences on a value basis – using predefined archetypes or according to individual definitions (e.g. strong achievement orientation, high sustainability awareness, need for harmony).

Retail signals (e.g. valuable first-party data on brand preferences) can also be transformed into cookielessly activatable audiences using AI.

The NE.R.O. AI technology guarantees the highest degree of individualisation and precision: target audience descriptions of various kinds (even individually defined personas) can be activated cookielessly and without the use of personal data in the open web.

Our expertise for your success

Sascha Dolling

General Manager

Sascha Dolling

Develops future-proof targeting solutions without third-party cookies with NE.R.O. AI and is committed to sustainable media standards.

Karin Immenroth

Managing Director

Karin Immenroth

Leads global data transformation at Mediaplus. Develops AI products that turn data into growth drivers.

For Schöffel, we are using retail purchase data for the first time to address target groups programmatically—without cookies, without IDs, and based on real transactions. Our AI recognizes purchasing patterns, forms target groups, and ensures greater communication relevance among genuine outdoor enthusiasts.

NE.R.O.AI FAQs

NE.R.O. AI goes far beyond keyword matching: it analyses semantics, emotions, intent and conveyed values – at sentence level and using a Large Language Model. This enables significantly more precise audience targeting.

NE.R.O. AI analyses over 150,000 new editorial articles from premium publishers in the programmatically available web daily – no social media data, no user profiles.

Yes, NE.R.O. AI is trained in over thirty languages and available internationally, for example in DACH, UK, USA, France, Italy, Spain, Poland and many other markets.

Yes, NE.R.O. AI can be seamlessly integrated into common DSPs and works with a wide variety of formats.

NE.R.O. AI works with a wide variety of digital formats from the display, mobile and video sectors. In addition to common standard formats, this includes large-format high-impact solutions.

Mediaplus uses probabilistic advanced frequency capping based on device signals, line item information and statistical models.

Ready to test cookie-free audience targeting?

Mediaplus Realtime offers NE.R.O. AI, the future-proof alternative to third-party cookies. Reach your target group precisely, scalably and in compliance with the GDPR.

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Mediaplus
New Business & Marketing
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