Between early March and early April, market research firm Ipsos registered the largest decline in American consumer confidence since 2010. From March 3, before social distancing defined our lives, to April 1, the Ipsos Primary Consumer Sentiment Index clocked a precipitous dip in US consumer confidence, from 60.1 points to 45.5. The downtrend appears to […]
This is the fourth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. One silver lining of working from home is being able to see everyone’s kids on Zoom, said Peter Reinhardt, CEO and co-founder of customer data platform Segment. The […]
It’s been a big week for location data-related deals. PlaceIQ acquired location data and measurement company Freckle IoT on Tuesday. And a day before, Foursquare said it would merge with Factual. Together, Foursquare and Factual have more than $150 million in combined revenue, data derived from over 500 million devices worldwide and 400+ employees. The […]
M&A is at an all-time low due to coronavirus fears, but some deals are getting done even in challenged sectors. On Tuesday, Bain Capital divested itself of SRDS, a 101-year-old business within Kantar that compiles contact info, audience insights and ad rates for more than 6,700 B2B and consumer-facing US-based traditional media sources. The acquirer […]
Companies are in the giving spirit in the age of coronavirus. Data companies are giving their data away for free, service providers are waiving their fees, ed tech companies are providing free access to their platforms, publishers are taking down their paywalls. The impulse is usually genuine. The challenge is spreading the word so people […]
When it comes to use, familiarity, market share and mindshare in the customer data platform (CDP) ecosystem, the big marketing clouds lead their smaller indie counterparts by a mile. But a peek under the hood reveals a more nuanced story. The marketing clouds are sucking all the air out of the room, but it’s the […]
This is the third in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Amperity is more than happy to explain to clients and prospects what its technology isn’t designed for. Candor helps win deals, said CEO Kabir Shahani, who co-founded the […]
Although LiveRamp prefers to publicly minimize its reliance on third-party cookies, those little text files are the glue that connects offline data with web browsing. “Put it like this,” said Ari Paparo, CEO and co-founder of Beeswax. “If cookies disappeared tomorrow, LiveRamp would be very affected.” To be fair, that would be true for most […]
Customer data platform mParticle has raised a $45 million Series D round to invest in data quality tools, data governance and partnerships. Led by Arrowroot Capital, the haul, announced Monday, brings total funding to $121 million for a company founded well before the category became a mar tech investment darling. “The space is hot,” said […]
This is the second in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read other interviews mParticle, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. A customer data platform is about a lot more than simply combining data. The real promise of a CDP is analytics, said Omer Artun, chief science officer at Acquia, a SaaS digital […]
This is the first in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read other interviews with Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. When mParticle was founded in 2012, the moniker “customer data platform” didn’t exist yet. David Raab, founder of the CDP Institute, wouldn’t coin the term until 2013. And […]
It’s a rough time to be in the clickstream data analytics biz. On Tuesday, Connexity-owned Hitwise announced that it would cease US operations. The closure is “due to events outside of our control,” Hitwise said on its homepage. “This is a very sad time for us at Hitwise after 20 years of operations providing first-to-market […]
Four former Krux and Salesforce executives launched a marketing data startup called Habu this week to help with omnichannel orchestration – just don’t call it a customer data platform. Habu, which means “hub” in Japanese, is positioning itself as a modular operating system for marketing data. Put another way, data management platforms failed to fulfill their […]
Like a handful of companies thrust into the CDP category, Simon Data predates the acronym’s hype. Simon Data co-founder and CEO Jason Davis saw the need for a data layer accessible to marketing while working at Etsy, which acquired his first startup Adtuitive, an automated ad tool for small businesses, in 2009. He wanted to […]
Ad tech expertise is increasingly finding its way out of the advertising industry and into seemingly unrelated verticals. The most recent example is Petabyte, a veterinarian and pet industry technology company that launched last month. The company’s initial product is a vet clinic management solution called Rhapsody. Petabyte CEO Michael Hyman and President Tim Mahlman […]
Marketers aren’t switching off of their DMPs – yet. But they’re considering solutions that are less cost-heavy and more integrated with paid media. DMPs from Oracle, Salesforce and Adobe have always been the most-used platforms in previous Advertiser Perceptions reports, and they still are in the research firm’s latest report, released Wednesday. But their favor […]
The music industry is coming to ad tech. Behavioral and affinity data about music artists can create valuable targeting information for the right advertising campaign. Imagine being able to target people who have visited a hip-hop artist’s tour site or watched an artist’s YouTube video. But the giant music labels didn’t package that data for […]
Data management platforms (DMPs) were once painted as a panacea for all of a marketer’s data needs – from collection, to harmonization to segmentation and syndication. But marketers have since cooled on the technology, concluding that it‘s too disjointed to perform many of the functions promised. Marketers tell AdExchanger they have struggled to achieve ROI, […]
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud is crowning a new leader. Longtime Salesforce vet Adam Blitzer will take the CEO reins from Bob Stutz this month. But the business strategy will remain the same: customer data platform (CDP) all the way. Salesforce introduced its CDP service, called “Customer 360,” in June, and Blitzer colored in more detail […]
You can’t swing a cat these days without hitting a customer data platform. On Thursday, Adobe made the CDP capabilities within Adobe Experience Platform generally available after a roughly five-month beta period. Earlier this week, Microsoft got vocal about its new CDP offering, and Salesforce, whose CDP is still in beta, has multiple CDP-related sessions […]
Here comes the customer data platform consolidation: Amperity is buying customer analytics platform Custora to help clients do more with their data in a merger announced on Tuesday. Kabir Shahani, Amperity’s CEO and co-founder, declined to share a deal price. The companies will spend the first 100 days following the acquisition focused on fully integrating […]
Twitter’s stock fell like a lead balloon Thursday morning – down as much as 20% in pre-market trading – after reporting an anemic third quarter. According to Twitter, revenue took a hit in Q3 thanks to a bit of seasonality in July and August and a few ad product-related “bugs” that it’s working to fix. […]
As marketers seek more transparency into their programmatic buys, they’re bypassing their demand-side platforms and going straight to exchanges and publishers to ask for log-level data about the bids they’ve won and lost. More than a dozen of the most hands-on, sophisticated marketers – including P&G, L’Oréal, T-Mobile and Bayer – are leading the charge. […]
The use of data in creative messaging has been talked about for years. But marketers are finally acting. At the ANA Masters conference in Orlando, Florida, last week, they showed how they create relevant messages and drive growth by using customer data. Marketers want data analysis to be “always-on,” instead of through formal market research […]
Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are both separately advocating the move to a new encrypted internet protocol called DNS over HTTPS aimed at improving cybersecurity on the web. But internet service providers (ISPs) are up in arms, and Congress is dubious of the motivation, at least in Google’s case. What’s going on and what does […]
This week, the enterprise tech company SAP ran a native ad on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in the form of a skit, where Kimmel’s assistant Guillermo showed how SAP made his life better. The spot wasn’t an obvious choice for the B2B brand. But Chief Marketing Officer Alicia Tillman made the decision after data showed SAP […]
The cross-device company Tapad was an early mover in an ongoing trend where ad tech data companies divest themselves of their media sales businesses. In January 2018, Tapad – owned by the Norwegian telco Telenor – offloaded its DSP to Brand Networks, and since then, its peers like Drawbridge and PlaceIQ have attempted similar pirouettes. […]
Jason Kelly is returning to his old stomping grounds, the flight travel industry, with the launch of an airline revenue management system (RMS) called Kambr, backed by a $4 million funding round. Kelly spent a decade managing online sales and revenue for airlines before getting into advertising technology in 2007 with Rapt, a digital monetization […]
Point solution technology often gets a bad rap, but that’s exactly what Lotame wants to be. Lotame, which started life as a data management platform (DMP) for publishers, has been systematically unstacking itself to make parts of its DMP available a la carte, including a connected TV product suite and firehose access to Lotame’s global […]
Union Bank is a small bank that wanted its new branding campaign to make a big impact. So the West Coast-based regional bank will test new messaging in a single market – San Diego – where it can buy enough advertising to match bigger banks. “The four large banks dwarf everyone else in terms of […]
