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Foursquare And Placed Are Full Steam Ahead On Their Integration

For Placed, life at Foursquare is a lot different than life was at Snap. Case in point: Foursquare and Placed completed the integration of their first-party audience data sets into a single attribution product within 90 days of the acquisition, which closed this summer. Snap sold Placed to Foursquare in May after acquiring the company... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // October 30th, 2019 //
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Dunkin' CMO Weisman To Leave; Foursquare CEO Calls For Regulation

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMO A Go-Go Dunkin’ CMO Tony Weisman will step down in December after a busy two years at the company. Weisman oversaw a major rebrand (from “Dunkin’ Donuts” to its more general coffee and food focus today), as well as the first overhaul of... Continue reading »
by AdExchanger // October 17th, 2019 //
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GasBuddy Fills Up On Location Data, Outcomes-Based Ads And Shopper Marketing Bucks

It’s a cliche to say that data is fuel but, in GasBuddy’s case, that’s literally true. The GasBuddy app, which helps drivers crowdsource information about cheap fuel prices, has access to opted-in location data from more than 15 million monthly active users. Users are more than willing to share their data, because they’re receiving a utility... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // August 7th, 2019 //
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Foursquare Acquires Placed From Snap, Raises $150 Million

Placed has found a new home. Foursquare is buying the location-based measurement company from Snap. Separately, it raised $150 million in fresh funding courtesy of The Raine Group, some of which is going to fund the acquisition. The rest is earmarked for R&D. The deal, announced early Friday morning, comes less than two years after... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // May 31st, 2019 //
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Alphonso And PlaceIQ Partner Up To Layer Location Data Into TV Measurement

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A man walks into a bar after seeing a TV ad … but there’s no way for the advertiser to prove it ever happened. On Tuesday, TV data company Alphonso inked a partnership with PlaceIQ to use the latter’s location data as a bridge between sitting on the... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // May 7th, 2019 //
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MillerCoors Taps Into Self-Serve Location Data From Foursquare

MillerCoors doesn’t have the opportunity to collect much first-party data: Most of its sales come through independently-owned convenience and liquor stores or bars and restaurants. “It’s very difficult to identify or measure audiences because of the nature of how these businesses are run,” said Brad Feinberg, VP of media and consumer engagement at MillerCoors. “They’re... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // January 22nd, 2019 //
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Location Data Company Gimbal Snaps Up UberMedia’s Managed Media Biz

Some ad tech companies are getting out of the managed media business – and others are jumping in with both feet. On Monday, mobile analytics company UberMedia sold its managed media business to location data platform Gimbal, marking the latter’s second acquisition of a media services unit in less than a year. Gimbal acquired Drawbridge’s managed... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // January 8th, 2019 //
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Placed Tunes Into TV Attribution

Advertisers know linear TV spots drive store visits. Proving it is another story. On Tuesday, Snap-owned location company Placed released a tool that attempts to tie the two together. To power its offering, Placed is licensing viewership data from Inscape, the data division within smart-TV manufacturer Vizio, which has access to around 8 million opted-in... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 13th, 2018 //
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Ericsson’s Mobile Ad Platform Taps Telcos To Validate Location Data

Emodo, Ericsson’s mobile ad platform for telcos, is aiming to boost the quality of location data in the ad ecosystem with a tool launched Thursday that uses carrier data to verify mobile audiences on a pre-bid basis. Marketers are shelling out for bad targeting and it’s akin to flushing their budgets down the toilet, said... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 7th, 2018 //
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Mobile Data Has A Quality Control Problem

This is the second in a series of deep dives from AdExchanger on mobile fraud and mobile data quality, including guides to fraud tactics and threat vectors and practical solutions from advertisers in the growth and user acquisition trenches. Read the first story (“2018 Will Be A Year Of Reckoning For Mobile App-Install Fraud”) and... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // March 5th, 2018 //
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