This is the third installment in “PII,” a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Read previous interviews with Nazanin Jazayeri and Andrew Klein. Data is a vehicle for great storytelling, according to Ella Chinitz, group vice president of data science at Razorfish. “[It’s about] deriving insights out of […]
In the past two weeks, the European Union has further expanded the scope of its regulatory powers and revealed more zealous plans to influence competition between digital properties. In late August, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) released net neutrality guidelines, which become law in 2018, that forbid practices like “fast lanes” […]
This is the first installment in “PII,” a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Nazanin Jazayeri is a translator. As director of advanced analytics at Mindshare, she’s part of a team that bridges product developers, media planners and buyers by interpreting the massive streams of data that […]
Mary Hennen will speak at AdExchanger’s Omni.Digital conference in Chicago on September 8. At home design retailer The Tile Shop, “The very foundation of everything we’ve done is understand who our customers are, and who they’re not,” said Mary Hennen, VP of marketing and ecommerce. Minneapolis-based The Tile Shop has 117 locations in 31 states, and first-party data is […]
On Tuesday, Pandora revealed it would be introducing two visual ad units at the end of the year: a mobile ad unit delivered within the same space that has the album art, and that adjusts based on the phone’s screen size; and muted video in a responsive display unit. Both are in beta with Express […]
Data figured centrally in Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaign operations. Hillary Clinton is running a similar playbook. Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz both leaned heavily on technology-enabled voter analysis. But Donald Trump isn’t interested in the data-gathering infrastructure many see as a necessary piece of modern presidential campaigning. “I’ve always felt it was overrated,” […]
Viacom and American Express on Tuesday announced Vantage Intent – a Viacom product powered by AmEx – to help advertisers use purchase intent to find audiences across TV, digital and social. As a premium offering within the data and audience platform Viacom Vantage, Vantage Intent is designed to analyze roughly $1 trillion worth of AmEx’s […]
The early-stage analytics startup Zodiac Metrics is introducing its solution to help retailers gauge the lifetime value of individual customers by analyzing CRM and live sales data. Retailers using the solution feed in data on who made purchases and how much was spent, and in return get an estimation of a customer’s potential value over […]
AdRoll’s B2B data co-op IntentMap, unveiled eight months ago, has expanded its participating partners from 1,000 to 3,000 out of 20,000 overall clients. The prospecting co-op is a pool of shared advertiser data managed by AdRoll’s data science operation. “We think data co-ops will gain momentum over the course of the year,” said AdRoll President […]
Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates only “suspend” their campaigns, even when they’re dropping out? It isn’t pride, it’s just good business. When the candidate is gone, the campaign’s valuable tech and data assets remain. Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, for instance, ended suddenly and in considerable debt, which it helped pay down by selling or renting its proprietary data. Mark […]
Affinity Answers, founded under the name Colligent in 2005, has spent a decade building a new metric for brand success. The data measurement company processes the social information of more than 400 million users per day to identify mutual affinities between brands and publishers that help them uncover, target and monetize untapped audiences. The company […]
MediaMath on Wednesday announced a new business unit, named Helix, meant to translate the company’s existing retail data assets into a unified product offering. The move follows a string of MediaMath investments in consumer data, beginning with the acquisition of Adroit Interactive in 2010 and continuing with the purchase of Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (later rebranded […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s highest court, on Tuesday invalidated the “Safe Harbor” agreement, which since 2000 has allowed companies to store and transfer data between the US and EU. A pillar of the agreement required the US to ensure equivalent protections to those guaranteed by the EU, but […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. A handful of years ago, I moderated a panel about mobile technology and privacy for the Churchill Club. One of the panelists explained the data collection issue in a way […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. I am thrilled to announce that AdExchanger Research’s report, “Define PII Today to Prepare for the Privacy Demands of the Future,” is available for purchase on our site, as of Wednesday. […]
With the demand-side platform (DSP) model continuing to propagate, data sellers and data management providers are seeing up-close how the DSP is applying data to the targeting of users in display, mobile and video ad inventory today. From their data-centric point-of-view, AdExchanger.com wanted to know… how is the DSP model doing? In particular, we asked […]
Bill Morrison and Robert Coolbrith are equity analysts at ThinkEquity Partners and recently authored a report entitled, “The Opportunity In Non-Premium Display Advertising.” AdExchanger.com: Are data exchanges the key to unlocking value in social media? Who’s getting it right in the data exchange space? BM and RB: We’ll defer the second part of your question […]
BlueKai and eXelate hit the PR jackpot today with a feature article in the NY Times. Though the article written by Stephanie Clifford ends with a thud, it hits on a core reason exchanges exist and expand today. Clifford quotes BlueKai CEO, Omar Tawakol, saying, “People are realizing that it’s the data that drives the […]
Data exchanges offer publishers, who are sweating bullets over 2009 revenue targets, an opportunity to create a new source of revenue as they are able to leverage their valuable user base and resell anonymous cookie data that advertisers can serve against. In yesterday’s MediaPost, CEO Mark Zagorski, from Israeli-based behavioral targeting data exchange, eXelate, exhorted […]
