Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Mo’ CMO Silvia Lagnado, McDonald’s global CMO since 2015, will leave the company in October, Ad Age reports. McDonald’s plans to scrap the global CMO role in favor of two marketing SVPs: Bob Rupczynski will oversee marketing tech and Colin Mitchell will focus […]
PreciseTarget publicly launched its first retail audience data segments on LiveRamp on Friday. PreciseTarget ingests audience and transaction data from more than 200 retail partners, primarily brick-and-mortar companies. It then anonymizes the data and packages audiences based on taste affiliations, like men who wear mid-priced vacation clothing or women who purchase expensive cosmetics. General taste […]
Equifax said Wednesday it will roll its marketing capabilities, which include credit marketing and financial services data from IXI Services, into a single service offering called Equifax Data-Driven Marketing (DDM). In doing so, the company hopes to make it easier for marketers to work with its household economic data and tools for analytics, audience segmentation, […]
Banks, brokerages, insurance companies, mortgage providers and the like want to direct their advertising spend toward users they know will convert, which requires granular audience targeting. “The KPIs are just much more performance-oriented,” said Jordan Bick, VP of financial services at Pandora, which recently began working with financial services advertisers. “They want to know how […]
Equifax’s marketing services business has flown under the radar. The company manages a consumer credit database on some 600 million individuals and 80 million businesses and, unbeknownst to many, has a dedicated marketing services practice that competes with Experian Marketing Services. Called IXI Services, this division of Equifax helps financial services companies and other consumer […]
“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 Jeff Sporn, SVP and GM for digital solutions at IXI, an Equifax division. Data is important for every online advertiser, but the rise in demand has led many to take shortcuts. […]
