Feels like we’ve been waiting for the convergence of ad tech and mar tech forever. But it’s finally starting to happen, and the time couldn’t be more ripe, says Heather Macaulay, president of product-focused consultancy MadTech.
Using data to try to predict the future is fine. Marketers do it all the time. But some events you can’t predict. The pandemic, anyone? “Sometimes data is about forecasting, but mostly it’s to create the capacity to respond,” said François-Xavier Pierrel, group chief data officer at JCDecaux, speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon this week.
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Nancy Marzouk, CEO at MediaWallah. When you have a big, ugly end date staring you in the face, it makes sense to focus on it. And that’s what brands did […]
Scaling your marketing ops isn’t an easy task when you’ve got 60 million monthly active users and a massive store of historical data going back nearly two decades. Just ask Pandora. “It’s been a really big challenge for us,” said David Hassler, director of software engineering at the music streaming platform. For the past two […]
This is the 11th in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Most brands suffer from the same cascade of data-related challenges. Data coming in from different sources leads to inconsistent customer experiences and a throbbing privacy and compliance […]
AB InBev – parent to more than 500 brands, including Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois and, of course, Corona – is the largest global beer company in the world, and it’s got sizable data silos to match. But until recently it had no way to connect them, said Lucas Borges, senior global mar tech manager […]
Fragmented data is a real and lingering problem for marketers. The question is whether a customer data platform (CDP) is the solution marketers seek and, if so, whether every marketer actually needs one. The TL;DR on CDPs is that they unify, or at least aim to unify, a marketer’s first-party data, including online and offline […]
The paid ads folks at mattress brand Purple and online watch retailer MVMT spend their days obsessing about measurement – and stressing over data silos. Budgets are lean, and they’re under pressure to tie spend to success. A six-person team at Purple manages paid advertising across more than 15 channels. But combining, analyzing, comparing and activating […]
Oracle DMP has always had a comfortably high perch in terms of advertiser recognition and adoption. And make no mistake – it still does. But Salesforce DMP has reached some pretty high branches in the year since the Krux acquisition, according to Advertiser Perceptions’ Q3 Programmatic Intelligence Report, released Wednesday. The findings come from a […]
Personalization is a top agenda item for most brands, but data management technology still leaves something to be desired. Machine learning could provide the answer, said Kabir Shahani, CEO and co-founder of Amperity, a Seattle-based startup that came out of stealth on Thursday. Since raising $9 million in Series A in February, Amperity has been […]
Forrester’s latest evaluation of standalone data management platforms (DMPs), released Thursday, arrives one week after its assessment of demand-side platforms (DSPs). While DMPs originated as audience segmentation tools to enhance media buying, the value prop of a standalone DMP is very different from one tied to a DSP, said Forrester’s senior analyst Susan Bidel. Forrester reviewed […]
When the largest advertiser in the world wants to take you to prom, but you’re not allowed to tell anyone – that was the situation facing AudienceScience. Although AudienceScience provided the technology backbone for Procter & Gamble’s internal trading desk, Hawkeye, for the past seven years, P&G explicitly acknowledged its alliance with the ad tech platform […]
It’s common for marketing to do its thing on one side of the room while product toils away on the other. Often they just ignore each other. Sometimes they clash. “Everyone felt the tension,” said Jeff Bordogna, VP of product at Relay Foods, a Virginia-based healthy online grocery retailer serving 12 regional markets across the […]
The volume and scope of ad tech/marketing tech M&A activity in 2015 shows investors want in on marketing stacks with scalable infrastructure that can support programmatic growth and increased automation of marketing functions, says a duo of investment firms. Such were the findings in reports from The Jordan, Edmiston Group (JEGI) and Petsky Prunier. The […]
This is the third in a series on companies advancing programmatic buying in Russia. Read our recent Q&As with Yandex and ADFOX. As programmatic buying starts to take off in certain countries, finding and analyzing audience data can be a major challenge to getting it off the ground. In Russia, at least one company has been tackling this […]
Yet another data-management platform (DMP) has hit the market, at least for clients of Xaxis, WPP’s trading desk. The DMP, called Turbine, is the fruits of a $25 million investment. “The strategy we designed with Xaxis was to develop the pieces of the ad tech stack that gave the most competitive advantage to our clients,” […]
Lotame’s VP of Product Management Kalyan Lanka discusses what the company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the seventh in AdExchanger’s series on the cross-device question, in which we examine what each data management platform (DMP) can provide in terms of connecting the identities or profiles of consumers across the digital, […]
Data-management platform (DMP) Lotame rolled out Wednesday its Mobile DMP suite to help businesses collect and manage audience data from mobile devices. The product, which can be added to Lotame’s current DMP offering or used as a standalone product, includes several features designed to help companies monetize their mobile inventory and engage with consumers on mobile […]
Traffic accidents are more orderly than the backend of most websites. At any given moment, a multitude of information fires off a page — information about who a visitor is, where she came from, her operating system or device profile, which ads are being served up, which videos are being played, etc. This has created […]
Automotive data company Polk collects and analyzes data related to registration and title information, new vehicle transactions from all the major manufacturers, and even vehicle financing data. Working with companies like Datalogix, with whom Polk has a years-long partnership, the company is able to bring this offline data into the online world. “Polk has some […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Chavez, founder and CEO of Krux Digital. When he was running the Right Media Exchange, Ramsey McGrory posited what I call the McGrory Conjecture during a panel […]
Jeff Pullen is CEO of AudienceScience, an online ad technology platform company. The company has been relatively quiet in the past year as the company has transitioned from the stewardship of former CEO Jeff Hirsch to the current CEO Jeff Pullen. And today, the company announced the hiring of former MediaMath Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) […]
Mike Sands is President and CEO of BrightTag, a data management platform company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is BrightTag solving? Website owners have lost control of the data on their site. They increasingly don’t know what data is being collected, what it is being used for or if third parties are in compliance with privacy regulations. […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ken Rona, PhD, V.P. Data Strategy and Client Analytics at [x+1]. Over the last couple of years, I have been in the data business, selling and buying, […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Scott Portugal, CRO at TRAFFIQ. Audience targeting has come a long way, baby. In the last 5 years, we’ve evolved from simple intra-site and intra-network retargeting to advanced, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adgregate Markets Selling Domain: adexchange.com In an AdExchanger.com exclusive, Henry Wong, CEO of Adgregate Markets (AdExchanger.com Q&A) said the Company is selling the domain “adexchange.com“. Wong said, “Adgregate Markets is divesting non-core assets, which includes AdExchange.com, that are non-essential to its core ShopAds business.” […]
