The modern marketing landscape is being rewritten in near real time. While economic uncertainty may tempt brands to retreat into the comfort of walled gardens, the truth is more nuanced, especially regarding data and identity solutions.
CTV’s over-frequency problem is as real as the pressure streaming services are under to grow their average revenue per user. But you don’t have to sacrifice one to achieve the other, says Jamie Power, Disney’s SVP of addressable sales.
In late May 2019 – one year after GDPR went into effect – European identity solutions provider Roq.ad decided to delete all of its data and rebuild its cross-device graph from scratch to make sure it only dealt in consented data as defined by the law.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by John Hamilton, CEO and co-founder, TVDataNow. The biggest misconception in ad tech in 2021 is that measuring ad performance on connected TV (CTV) is difficult or impossible. This perception exists because there’s no real universal […]
LiveRamp is expanding into identity resolution with a new product called Portrait Engine. The idea with Portrait Engine is to help marketers build identity graphs using only their own first-party data as the foundation. The solution, unveiled last week at a MMA Global virtual event about the future of online identity, is now in public […]
Third-party cookies may be on the way out in Chrome, but that doesn’t mean the end of data-driven advertising. There are still many other types of audience data that marketers will have at their disposal, including identity graphs and consented third-party data, household-level data, second-party data, contextual data, cohorts and, of course, first-party data, including […]
Next up in Unified ID 2.0 partner news: Oracle. On Thursday, Oracle became the most recent company to join the open source initiative, developed by The Trade Desk to serve as a hashed email-based alternative to third-party cookies. Specifically, Oracle’s integration with UID 2.0 will allow marketers to use the identifier to help with identity […]
Step right up, Infutor. On Wednesday, the identity management and ID resolution provider announced that it’s joining Unified ID 2.0, the open source industry initiative that was initially kicked off by The Trade Desk to create an email-based alternative to third-party cookies once they go kaput. UID 2.0 entered beta in March. Infutor’s plan is […]
Google utterly dominates the identity resolution marketplace, with LiveRamp and Salesforce trailing in the middle distance. That’s according to the most recent Advertiser Perceptions ID resolution marketplace report, which found that most advertisers and agencies (29%) use Google as their primary identity resolution solution. That number drops to 13% apiece for LiveRamp and Salesforce. Amazon, […]
TransUnion has its eye on the cookieless future with its acquisition of Tru Optik, announced on Thursday. This is the credit bureau’s third ad tech acquisition over the past year and a half. TransUnion acquired marketing tech platform TruSignal in May 2019 and cross-channel marketing company Signal in August. TransUnion declined to share the Tru […]
