Identity Data

The Publicis/LiveRamp acquisition raises a stark question: Can shared identity infrastructure really stay neutral under competitor ownership?

When Google reversed its decision to deprecate third-party cookies, the first word in ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche’s mind was an expletive. But it doesn’t really matter what happens with cookies on Chrome anymore. “Most of the industry has moved past the notion that cookies were good enough to target and measure advertising on the web,” Roche says.

Call Yahoo one of the converted. Yahoo DSP launched a new Conversions API (CAPI) product, following in the footsteps of Meta and other platforms such as Snap, TikTok and Pinterest with their own CAPI tools.

Nodals AI launches, with its own spin on the custom algorithm ad tech category.

We should welcome the opportunity to be part of identity’s path forward, now that we’ve released ourselves from the shackles of the cookie, writes Mark McEachran, SVP of product at Yieldmo.

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

FreeWheel unveiled a sell-side product called Audience Manager to help CTV programmers tie granular audience segments to their inventory at the speed of programmatic advertising.

The growth of streaming has pushed TV into the realm of digital media, enabling data-driven, audience-based advertising and near-real-time impression-level decisioning. This new era of TV advertising requires a new era of measurement that delivers the granularity and speed advertisers need to maximize campaign performance.

The identity data market is heating up as companies collect more first-party data and marketers do their damnedest to maintain addressable advertising without cookies or mobile ad IDs. The category already includes the incumbent LiveRamp, major agency holding companies – Dentsu’s Merkle, IPG and Acxiom and Publicis plus Epsilon – and startups, such as Zeotap […]

The marketing data company ALC, which started out 40 years ago creating consumer segments for direct mail advertisers, relaunched Tuesday as Adstra, with a new mission as a data onboarding and identity graph provider. Adstra is following a well-beaten path for companies that transformed offline consumer data sets based on home addresses and landline phone […]