AddThis, the social sharing tools and analytics provider formerly known as Clearspring, is trying to solve a problem that has long plagued the business of using online data – how to incorporate information from the physical world consumers mainly inhabit alongside their digital characteristics, profiles and behaviors. In its bid to address those digital data […]
Datalogix has snatched up Connection Engine in a bid to help customers better link their digital marketing efforts to offline sales impact. Connection Engine allows clients to compare the value of customers acquired through multiple digital channels — including website visits, lead gen, email, and display ads. It does so by hashing customer IDs from […]
Every so often a solution bubbles up that aims to give people more control over how their data is leveraged. Several years ago AttentionTrust.org aimed to provide such a service, and the FTC-led Do-Not-Track browser initiative aims to do the same on a much larger scale. But is the world ready for self-administered marketing profiles? […]
Online-to-offline marketing analyst Korrelate has been working with data management platform BlueKai to demonstrate the link between online ad data and offline purchase behavior in the auto category. (Read the release.) We spoke with Daniel Jaye, who has taken the company’s reins as CEO, with founding CEO Curt Viebranz stepping into the chairman role. Jaye helped start one […]
Getting so-called “pre-bid” data feeds from ad verification companies is becoming commonplace for ad networks and DSPs. As the name suggests, “pre-bid” verification screens out impressions at the server level prior to bidding, saving money on ad space that is either unacceptable to the buyer or not in view. So far agency trading desks don’t […]
Yesterday we covered a new segmentation capability from Nielsen that lets digital ad buyers reach web users based on their boob tube viewing patterns. (Read it) One thing we didn’t mention was MediaMath’s involvement in the new offering. In a story published today, Multichannel News notes Nielsen will use the demand-side platform to overlap view […]
TARGUSinfo and its AdAdvisor unit appear to have settled in as NeuStar Information Services. The implications of last November’s acquisition of TARGUSinfo by Neustar (valued at $650 million) reach far beyond data for display ad targeting. Yet, considering Neustar’s data and some of its other units such as IP address targeter Quova, new areas of […]
Earlier this month WPP bought a majority stake in Acceleration, a 13-year-old consulting and services firm that helps marketers and publishers implement digital ad technology. (press release) The company employs 148 marketing technologists in London, New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dubai, and Johannesburg. AdExchanger spoke with Cameron Hulett, who leads Acceleration’s consulting and sales […]
On its surface, a new relationship between BlueKai and Canadian ad startup Datacratic resembles many other data partnerships in the real-time bidding space. BlueKai will use Datacratic to bring a new “look-a-like” modeling capability to its platform. The DMP’s customers can augment already-live campaigns with more reach by comparing the attributes of converters to identify […]
Last week, newspaper-publisher-backed ad optimizer quadrantONE unveiled three new audience targeting tools in partnership with data management marketing specialist Acxiom. We spoke with Mario Diez, the CEO of quadrantONE, which is a joint venture among The New York Times Co., Tribune Company, Hearst and Gannett, about the new tools and why it pulled in Acxiom […]
