MediaMath on Wednesday announced a new business unit, named Helix, meant to translate the company’s existing retail data assets into a unified product offering. The move follows a string of MediaMath investments in consumer data, beginning with the acquisition of Adroit Interactive in 2010 and continuing with the purchase of Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (later rebranded […]
Advertisers are still reluctant to share their hard-earned data in a co-op. And Avi Spivack, senior director of product management at MediaMath-owned co-op Adroit Digital, gets it. “Some advertisers have straight-up security and privacy concerns, while others are afraid that other members of the co-op will get more benefit from their data than they themselves will […]
What’s better than first-party shopper data? First-party shopper data paired with predictive analytics. That’s the thinking behind Adroit Digital’s acquisition of Arcametrics, a small North Carolina-based company whose technology uses predictive modeling to create lookalike audiences based on high-quality customers. Adroit declined to share details of the deal, including price, although company president Jacob Ross […]
Last year MediaMath Sales VP Charles Cantu approached his CEO, Joe Zawadzki, to give his notice. He had gotten a competitive job offer that included a major pay raise and the opportunity to manage a team. Zawadzki asked him, “What do you want to do after this?” Cantu replied, “I want to run my own […]
