Experian Marketing Services

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.

Can the digital ad industry’s signal-loss pain be Experian’s gain? Experian has two new identity-focused products that simplify its marketing offerings and aim to give digital marketers a more complete user ID graph.

For much of 2022, business leaders have been bracing for a downturn. But if a recession does hit, advertisers are unlikely to pull back on performance spend as they continue to chase consumer attention amid changing media consumption habits.

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. In this episode, Experian Marketing Services President Genevieve argues for greater fragmentation of identifiers as the best path to herd immunity against future advertising disruptions.  Instead of driving marketers to a single solution, she says Experian is focused […]

LiveRamp pioneered data onboarding, the technology to match anonymized online user cookies and mobile IDs to real-world consumers and offline data. But now, LiveRamp must contend with rivals following the trail it blazed. LiveRamp executed a neat financial pirouette last year, when it re-listed on the stock exchange with a market cap of more than […]

About 18 months ago, data services provider Experian Marketing Services sought a new line of business: agencies. Given Experian’s legacy in marketing data, that seems relatively recent. But Kevin Dean, president and GM of targeting at Experian, has an explanation: “The advent of programmatic and addressability has created an environment where brands are as interested […]

Before taking advantage of their first-party data, brands first must figure out what the heck they’ve actually got. “People don’t really appreciate the assets they’ve accumulated over the course of years,” said Acxiom vet Josh Herman, who now leads tech development for CRM, ad tech and analytics platforms at Kimberly-Clark Corp. He spoke at AdExchanger’s […]

“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 Bridget Bidlack, vice president of global product management at Experian Marketing Services. First-party data is one of an organization’s most important marketing assets yet many struggle to activate it effectively. […]

Experian Marketing Services has paid media on the mind. The data and analytics provider announced Thursday that it’s beefing up its media partner networks with a series of hookups designed to diminish its dependence on third-party cookies. Mobile-centric companies like 4INFO, Millennial Media and NinthDecimal have all been added to Experian’s list of partners, and […]

“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 Martin Gilliard, general manager, Americas, at AdTruth, which is part of Experian Marketing Services. The role of technology in marketing is dramatically changing. It began with interdependent tools that solved […]

In the wake of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fighting words about data collection and a major study finding consumer sentiment toward online tracking is at an exasperated tipping point, it seems clear that privacy is having another “moment.” What’s an industry to do? Sources approached by AdExchanger sound a familiar chorus: Advertisers should increase operational […]

“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 Jay Stocki, vice president of digital services at Experian Marketing Services. You won’t get fired for buying age and gender gross rating points (GRPs) at this year’s upfronts. But mark […]

“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 Emad Georgy, senior vice president of product development and global head of development at Experian Marketing Services. In the age of the half-read article, far too few have taken the […]

You can’t un-ring a bell, but you might be able to un-hash an email, depending on whom you ask. In order for marketers to safely use hashes for targeted advertising, they must stay abreast of the latest hashing formats. Email hashing involves converting an email address to a hexadecimal string. Each time an email address […]

“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of integrated marketing services at Experian Marketing Services. Marketers are increasingly taking advantage of the richness of CRM, purchase transactions and other offline data sources for […]

“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 Jay Stocki, vice president of digital services at Experian Marketing Services. If they haven’t heard it already, every chief marketing officer will soon be asked this question: “Do you plan […]

Experian Marketing Services introduced a persistent identification service into its Marketing Suite product line on Wednesday. The OmniView service is designed to combine marketer-owned login identities into a single, core identifier. It combines the company’s various linkage solutions (i.e., connecting email addresses with in-store shoppers) and also includes data cleansing and the ability to strengthen first-party data […]

“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. To improve the performance of their digital advertising campaigns, marketers can use yield-optimization practices, which are common […]

Experian Marketing Services is getting in the Marketing Cloud game. Or, at least the Marketing Suite game. The company will roll out an end-to-end marketing platform designed to tackle marketer pain points around multi-device identity linkage, cross-channel campaign management and business intelligence. Experian Marketing Services will announce this development during its annual Client Services Summit […]

“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 Jay Stocki, vice president of digital services at Experian Marketing Services. It’s been said that the easier the habit, the harder it is to change. That must be why nearly […]

A few weeks ago, Experian Marketing Services formally merged its Consumer Insights division with its Targeting division. The former, built from Simmons Market Research (providing brand and media outlet profiles) and Hitwise (providing competitive online analytics), is the intelligence arm; the latter is the execution arm. “Imagine seeing not just where ESPN.com traffic comes from […]

“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. Marketers that successfully innovate in digital possess, without exception, established core competencies that deliver consistent results. These […]

Connecting consumers across devices is on every advertiser’s mind these days, and vendors are ramping up to accommodate. Add Sizmek to that list. The ad tech company plans to release during the second week of May Device Intelligence, an analytics feature designed to enable targeting and measurement of mobile ads. The analytics component is made […]

“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. The proliferation of connected electronics has spurred new interest in device-recognition technologies even though they have been […]

Three months after acquiring its parent company, 41st Parameter, Experian Marketing Services clients can now incorporate AdTruth’s cross-device recognition technology into their marketing campaigns, the company said Thursday. Founded in 2010, AdTruth lets advertisers identify users across platforms and mobile devices by connecting those devices to a user ID for retargeting purposes. AdTruth’s other offerings […]

“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. Many marketers believe that programmatic media-buying platforms will optimize their ad campaigns but, in reality, nothing could […]

“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. The online advertising industry is booming, becoming more sophisticated as it grows. Today’s online ecosystem evolved to […]

Here at AdExchanger, we love data. We tell you how brands are using it to target consumers and leverage programmatic buying. But beyond that, it can often be confusing just how marketers use all of the data collected throughout their entire marketing strategies. So we decided to ask the data, analytics, and insights companies this […]

Mobile devices are used not only to talk and text, but also to go online, check email, use social networks, and play games. All of this is well known, and marketers are trying to determine the best way to advertise to consumers within this experience. In its global 2013 Digital Marketers Report, Experian collected data […]

Google properties dominated the top mobile websites in terms of market share of visits during the week ending February 23, 2013, according to Experian Marketing Services. Experian introduced Hitwise Mobile at the beginning of March, a new offering that will provide data on mobile internet activity, including weekly website rankings from mobile devices, share of […]