This year has been a series of highs and lows for Zeta Global. It acquired LiveIntent for $250 million – a high. And it was the subject of multiple withering short seller reports – a low. But CEO David Steinberg says he’s not sweating it.
What happens if the TikTok ban comes to pass; Netflix’s live sports Hail Mary play; and Channel Factory surfs for buyers.
Why the agency pivot to alternative payment models is good for M&A; Zeta Global responds to a short-seller’s explosive claims; and X sees a mass exodus after the election.
Move over, Mr. Met — it’s Grimace’s time to shine. Plus, Zeta Global has acquired email marketing and identity company LiveIntent for $250 million.
The concept of ID bridging has long been the foundation of programmatic advertising, writes LiveIntent CEO Matt Keiser. What is cookie matching but an early iteration of ID bridging?
Due to declining paid social traffic, Wildgrain, a subscription box company that built its brand on Facebook, has ramped up its email marketing efforts through a partnership with LiveIntent.
The dormant subscribers Daily Voice has reactivated so far this year are more engaged and attract higher CPMs for their impressions than its wider subscriber base.
This article is sponsored by LiveIntent. At LiveIntent, we fully support consumer privacy. There is an organic desire for consumer privacy, transparency and choice from the public and it must be respected. However, there isn’t an organic desire from the public to have Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon be the outsize beneficiaries of these privacy […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kerel Cooper, CMO at LiveIntent. Around 2015, publishers who put all their eggs in the basket of being promised rising engagement from videos on Facebook were caught in a precarious position when it turned out […]
With third-party cookies soon to leave the scene, the ad industry is casting about for an alternative identifier, one preferably based on first-party data, collected with consent. Email in particular is being heralded as a way to maintain identity in the face of third-party cookie loss. And numerous industry solutions are being built with email […]
People just can’t get enough news during the coronavirus pandemic – and it’s not just national coverage. Local newsletters are experiencing record sign-up numbers. Advance Local, which operates local news sites including Syracuse.com, MassLive.com, OregonLive.com, LehighValleyLive.com and NJ.com, moved quickly to provide newsletters to people seeking frequent updates about the pandemic. Most of the publishers owned […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kerel Cooper, senior vice president of global marketing at LiveIntent. There’s a famous line between editorial and revenue at every legitimate publisher. Newsrooms aren’t influenced by the teams responsible for revenue, and nary do […]
“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 Kerel Cooper, SVP of global marketing at LiveIntent. Technology, obviously, has its barriers. It takes skill, patience, resolve and education to really compete and innovate in our complicated field. For […]
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 […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. The telcos are uniquely equipped for the battle of the people-based marketing crown. They have the best mobile data, which is crucial for […]
Cycle Media, which launched Monday, hopes to break the mold of the traditional media holding company. The company is the result of a merger between Cycle, a social content and influencer network formed in 2016, and Laundry Service, a marketing agency with deep roots in social, founded by Stein in 2011 and acquired by sports marketing […]
Seven independent ad tech companies debuted a programmatic consortium on Thursday that pools their supply- and demand-side cookie IDs into one shared identity asset. The consortium is helmed by AppNexus, MediaMath and LiveRamp, which provides the data matching. Other launch partners include Index Exchange, Rocket Fuel, LiveIntent and OpenX. And it’s a shot across the […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. In recent weeks, the conversation drawing a distinction between marketing and advertising is finally happening in the mainstream. Most of this chatter puts […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. The only way to get data to flow from marketing to advertising and back again is through an identity graph. The Japanese were […]
More marketers are adopting data-driven tactics by blending their own first-party data with third-party sources. Financial services, for example, is undergoing major digital disruption, and banks are looking to translate direct-to-consumer marketing tactics to business constituents. Capital One seeks to reach small and medium-sized merchants nationwide through its small-business division and does so using Salesforce […]
It’s been an odd presidential campaign, and this oddness has extended to the realm of political advertising. Here are three things to look out for as the primary season gives way to the general election. Is there enough TV inventory? There’s just too much money to push down the throat of linear TV, and it’s […]
A couple of partnerships have popped out of RampUp, a Tuesday conference centered around Acxiom’s data onboarding service, which has since been integrated into a unit called Connectivity. The common theme – probably not surprisingly – is the ability to do one-to-one matching. Adobe Audience Manager: From Device Matching To Individual/Household Matching First, Adobe 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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. Monday’s news of the Tapad acquisition by the Norwegian mobile carrier Telenor is a complex play for the cross-device crown. The general feeling […]
LiveIntent, which automates the placement of ad inventory within email messages, appointed industry heavy-hitter Jason Kelly as its president on Monday. Kelly was instrumental in helping mobile ad network Millennial Media sell to AOL for $240 million in September, facilitated the sale of retail DSP Sociomantic to Tesco/dunnhumby in 2014 and served as CRO of […]
Programmatic email platform LiveIntent has acquired Mojn, a Copenhagen-based data onboarding company, following LiveIntent’s recent acquisition of the European recommendation engine AVARI. Terms were undisclosed. All 12 of Mojn’s employees, a majority of whom are data scientists, will join LiveIntent, said Matt Keiser, LiveIntent’s founder and CEO. The acquisition will support LiveIntent’s international expansion, an […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. We knew that Google would one day enter the people-based advertising fray as a serious contender, but with last week’s launch of Custom […]
Email advertising and marketing platform LiveIntent unveiled a $32.5 million growth equity investment on Wednesday, led by FTV Capital. Other investors include Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Shasta Ventures. It will use the funds primarily to build out its platform and APIs for wider integration with other marketing tech companies like Salesforce, an effort […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. If I’ve learned one thing from my 20 years in marketing, it’s this: When brands market to people, they expect to be able […]
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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. Oracle’s new ID Graph uses the company’s data to match unique identifiers to its BlueKai data-management platform (DMP). That means unique identifiers associated […]
