Data Clean Rooms

Remember back when Netflix was anti-advertising? Plus, CTV is still struggling with low programmatic fill rates.

Serial ad tech entrepreneur Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan founded two startups roughly a decade apart, both for a similar reason: making data available across the enterprise in a way that’s also respectful of the consumer.

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

SSP, meet PET. TrustX has been spun out of Digital Content Next and is now housed within a newly formed company called Symitri, which is developing privacy-enhancing technologies for programmatic advertising.

Curation’s shift to the sell side is giving DSPs less control over how advertisers curate audiences, which is creating new tensions in the programmatic ecosystem.

There are two paths to transforming your business to capitalize on first-party-data-based advertising: mergers and acquisitions, or making nonrecurring investments. Here are the pros and cons of each.

Is consolidation among clean rooms actually going to make things any cleaner when it comes to collaboration, accessibility and pricing?

Cookie loss is happening, even if it doesn’t feel imminent, and there’s no point in procrastinating, according to Sisi Zhang, chief data and analytics officer at Publicis-owned Razorfish.

It takes a publisher around six weeks on average to test and deploy a new identity solution, not to mention the maintenance they have to do over time. No wonder publishers are stressed out.

LiveRamp will acquire Habu for $200 million, further consolidating the data clean room tech category.