While location-based ad delivery was once limited strictly to geofencing, the ability to combine device identifiers, geographic coordinates, and customer history data has added sophistication to location targeting. PlaceIQ is one of the latest companies attempting to introduce more value into location advertising via two product roll-outs last Friday. PIQ Analytics and PreVisit are designed […]
A lot has been said lately about Twitter’s reach in terms of its monthly active users, but its ability to collect data through plugins like social sharing buttons has gone widely unmentioned. Many websites today include “buttons” on their pages that allow visitors to share content on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social networks by […]
Little Rock, AR-based Acxiom is gearing up to launch an “Audience Operating System,” for cross-channel and cross-device ad targeting, in September. “The world is coming to us as big data and insight-based decisioning is exactly what we do,” CEO Scott Howe said during the company’s earnings call. “It is also exactly our vision for the […]
Cross-device ad targeting provider Drawbridge will use data segments from eXelate, the companies said today. When it comes to delivering targeted ads on mobile devices, the process is more complicated than it is on a desktop PC, largely because of the inability to use cookies on a smartphone or tablet. Drawbridge gets around this challenge […]
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 […]
Jason Lynn is Chief Strategy Officer of interclick, an online advertising company. Lynn is responding to Hooman Radfar of Clearspring who authored a One Question piece recently – “What Is The Biggest Misconception About The Use Of Data For Ad Targeting?“… Leaders in the data targeting business uttered a collective ‘Amen’ to Hooman Radfar’s assertion […]
