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“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 Chavez, CEO at Krux. Google recently informed its data-management platform (DMP) partners that it would impose new restrictions on pixels fired by campaigns that run on the Google Display […]

Because AARP serves a specific demographic – people over 50 – the magazine has long understood just how valuable it was to provide advertisers with a segmented audience. But within that age bracket, there is incredible diversity of segments that the AARP knew would provide value to advertisers. So the team decided to use Krux to […]

Jobzonen, a Danish job-search website, has begun using first-party data to tailor its display ads with listings geared towards “high-value” candidates. The solution, Track & Trace, is a project of the Danish Publisher Network (DPN), a consortium of 11 publishers, including Jobzonen, using data-management platform (DMP) Krux. It’s what DPN believes is the first step towards […]

Krux’s co-founders, CEO Tom Chavez and CTO Vivek Vaidya, discuss what the company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the eighth in AdExchanger’s series on the cross-device question, in which we examine what each DMP can provide in terms of connecting the identities or profiles of consumers across the digital, mobile […]

“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 Chavez, CEO at Krux. In June 1999, a venture called Wingspan Bank launched with a breakthrough idea: Consumers should do their banking online. By September 2000, it was defunct. […]

Years after the major ad holding companies like Publicis, IPG, WPP, Havas and others created trading desks for accessing ad exchanges, Japan’s largest advertising company, Dentsu, finally launched on Dec. 19 its own real-time bidding (RTB) platform, called Dentsu Audience Network. Read the release. Dentsu has been active in developing a programmatic business since 2010, […]

With unwavering digital-only focus, Anthony Hitchings, head of advertising technology and digital operations at FT.com, has had a front-row seat to the promises and pitfalls of programmatic media from within a large newspaper publisher’s online unit. “I see the programmatic space as providing a great opportunity for us.  But there are ‘teething troubles,’ if you […]

With Krux’s initial conception of its publisher data management platform (DMP) nearly complete, CEO Tom Chavez is thinking about what’s next for his 2.5-year-old company.  Chavez says, “We had a broad idea of all the pieces that we wanted to conquer, and within the last year, those puzzle pieces have come together. It spans not […]

“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 […]

Tom Chavez is CEO of Krux, an online advertising technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Chavez to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Krux today. Click below or scroll down for more: On The Industry Today Krux Evolution […]