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  • Can BeReal Be The Real Thing?; Simpli.fi Acquires Bidtellect

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Get Real Last year, BeReal was flying high on organic growth. Apple named it “App of the Year,” a coveted title, because the prize is sweet, sweet App Store homepage visibility.  But can BeReal keep the magic alive long enough to, uhhh […]

  • Apple’s ATT Takes A Bite; Blackstone Buys Into Simpli.fi

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. iO-SOS More than 70% of Apple devices have upgraded to the latest operating system, with the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy. And now mobile advertisers and ad tech are starting to feel the pain, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev Memo. The loudest […]

  • Omnicom, Home Depot Push For Misinfo Probe; Simpli.fi Buys ERP Platform For $100M

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stop The Spread Misinformation isn’t a virus – but it can spread like one. Election fraud paranoia, hate speech and online conspiracy theories were all roiling in the overheated atmosphere that contributed to the Jan. 6 siege of the US Capitol. And advertisers don’t want […]

  • Impending Challenges In Advanced TV Could Complicate The Digital And Broadcast Team Divide

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by James Moore, chief revenue officer at Simpli.fi. The introduction of connected TV (CTV) and streaming platforms has enriched consumers’ lives and pushed content to new heights, but on the back end, it has created a […]

  • Here’s What's Needed To Scale Behavioral Targeting In OTT

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Frost Prioleau, CEO at Simpli.fi. Part of the promise of over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) is that they marry the benefits of traditional television with digital marketing capabilities. A large part of digital’s […]

  • How Much Targeting Is Too Much Targeting?

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. P&G made headlines in 2016 when it announced it would scale back on Facebook targeting. At the time, P&G CMO Marc Pritchard said, […]

  • Programmatic in the ‘Second Machine Age’


    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. Programmatic advertising continues to grow faster than analysts’ expectations, leaving industry pundits to continually raise growth predictions made just months before. While this acceleration […]

  • Dynamic Audiences Beat Dynamic Ads

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. Dynamic ads, where the ad shown to a particular user reflects products viewed or pages visited, have been a popular mainstay of programmatic advertising […]

  • How Can We Make Open Auctions Work For All Publishers?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. One of programmatic’s biggest benefits has been the liquidity it offered in the marketplace for display advertising impressions. Before programmatic and real-time bidding (RTB), in particular, the market […]

  • National Programmatic Advertisers: Don’t Miss The Local Opportunity

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. The promise of one-to-one marketing has long been a goal of many advertisers. You could argue that site retargeting efforts achieve one-to-one in programmatic […]

  • Programmatic Can Dial Up Radio’s Digital Revenues

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. From programmatic’s perch on the bleeding edge of advertising technology, it could be easy to dismiss radio as an advertising medium of a bygone […]

  • Programmatic Can Be More Friend Than Foe For Local Media

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. A few months back, Marc Andreesen made the bold prediction that the news industry, which includes a large group of local publishers, will grow […]

  • National Advertisers Should Take Pointers From Local Advertisers

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. National advertisers are often thought of as the most sophisticated users of programmatic technology, and for good reason. As some of the biggest spenders, […]

  • The Virtuous Cycle Of Programmatic Quality

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. Many recent articles have portrayed programmatic advertising as being in the middle of a vicious cycle, where an onslaught of nonhuman traffic and unviewable […]

  • How Big Data Can Make The Most Of Small Campaigns

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. The average small and medium-sized business (SMB) in the US spends about $400 a month on marketing, according to the US Chamber of Commerce’s […]

  • Let’s Be Clear About Transparency

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. If you search Google for “transparency + ad tech,” you’ll get more than 20 million search results. Nearly every network, DSP and publisher claims […]

  • Evidence-Based Media Buying: We Can Handle The Truth

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. In the climactic courtroom scene that closes the military thriller “A Few Good Men,” Jack Nicholson’s character delivers one of the most memorable lines […]

  • Taking The Long View On Viewability

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. It’s that time of the year when industry analysts and self-appointed pundits (including yours truly) gaze into their crystal balls and predict the future […]

  • Simpli.fi Snags $16M In Series B Financing For Product, Sales Push

    Advertising technology company Simpli.fi has raised $16 million in a Series B growth round led by private equity firm Frontier Capital with participation from Contour Venture Partners. Prior to the Series B round, the company had raised $4 million since its founding in 2010, bringing its financing total to $20 million after operating at a […]

  • Are We There Yet? Approaching True 1-To-1

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. In their seminal book, “The One-to-One Future,” communications strategists and futurists Don Peppers and Martha Rogers imagined a world beyond mass marketing. Somewhere beyond the television […]

  • How An RTB Takeover Could Super Size Any Given Sunday

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. The number to beat: 111.3 million impressions. That’s the all-time record for number of people who watched the Super Bowl XLVI broadcast in 2012. […]

  • Search and Display: A Lesson In What Works

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO of Simpli.fi. Search advertising is widely considered to be the gold standard of online advertising. One measure of success is that search has achieved recurring line-item […]

  • More Search Data On Facebook Exchange As Simpli.fi Enlists in Partner Army

    Last month we noted that search intent data had come to the Facebook Exchange, in the form of a partnership with search retargeter Chango. The deal represented something of an incursion by Facebook on terrain that’s long been lucrative for Google. Now Facebook has done it again, adding search retargeting firm Simpli.fi to the FBX […]

  • Simpli.fi Addressing Search Marketers With A Demand-Side Platform Says CEO Prioleau

    Frost Prioleau and Paul Harrison are CEO and CTO, respectively, of Simpli.fi, a demand-side platform for search marketers. AdExchanger.com: Let’s look back, first. The last company you both were involved in was Personifi. Can you give us a brief history? And then discuss how your Personifi experience has informed the creation of Simpl.fi? Harrison: Actually, […]