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What’s On Tap For Dynamic Yield After The McDonald’s Acquisition

McDonald’s is starting to throw a few ideas on the grill after spending around $300 million to acquire personalization and decision logic tech startup Dynamic Yield in March. Dynamic Yield’s technology has been integrated into the drive-thru experience at roughly 700 McDonald’s restaurants in North America so far with plans to roll out more and... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 24th, 2019 //

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Ebay Tests AI Recommendation Tool To Up The Ante On Its Marketing Experiments

Large marketers are constantly running scores of experiments on their media investments. That can make optimization tricky, said Sadie Daryan, eBay’s global head of display and app marketing. And so eBay has been playing around with a tool from marketing intelligence startup Admetrics, released Tuesday, that uses AI to automatically run thousands of concurrent tests... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 18th, 2019 //

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Contentsquare Raises $60 Million Series C For A Big Bet On AI

Paris-based analytics platform Contentsquare said Monday that it’s raised a $60 million Series C just one year after announcing its $42 million Series B. The fresh round, led by French private equity firm Eurazeo, brings the company’s total funding to $120 million since 2016. This raise, like the last, is going toward research and development... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // January 28th, 2019 //

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Did Google Just Kill Independent Attribution?

“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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. In a muted squib released last week, Google signaled it would no longer include user IDs with log files from its industry-leading ad server.... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // May 7th, 2018 //

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Adobe Integrates Analytics And Audience Manager To Connect Marketing To Media

Adobe said Thursday it had integrated Adobe Analytics into its Audience Manager data management platform (DMP). The integration makes it easier for marketers to combine first- and third-party data sets to deliver consistent messaging, and marketers can pull execution data back into their reporting tools for a better view of their customers. “Over the last... Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // September 21st, 2017 //

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Motel 6: ‘Analytics Is Our North Star’

More than half of bookings at Motel 6 happen on the same day as arrival. That means most of the budget hotel chain’s customers are on the road when they make their decision to stay the night, so the booking experience has to be as frictionless as possible, said Jeff Thomas, director of ecommerce and... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // September 7th, 2017 //

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Ad-Juster Is Helping Scripps And Other Pubs Normalize Programmatic Data Across Platforms

Chris Turley used to spend his mornings elbow deep in Excel. As a programmatic operations analyst at Scripps Networks Interactive, it was Turley’s daily task to pull information from 13 separate programmatic platforms, mainly data related to paid impressions, CPMs and revenue, and to organize that mess of information into a single spreadsheet for every... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // April 4th, 2017 //

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Horizon Turns To Digital Attribution In Pursuit Of Cinema Ticket Sales

Media agency Horizon Media worked with Placed, a location analytics and attribution firm, on both companies' first attempt to measure the impact of digital advertising on movie ticket sales. Horizon Media is the longstanding media buyer for the production studio STX Entertainment. It has worked with Placed for other advertisers, “and we started having conversations... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // October 6th, 2016 //

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Advertising Week: Taking Measure Of Cross-Device Measurement

There’s nothing sexier than measurement. Well, that’s not true. But it was certainly a hot topic during Advertising Week. Google made cross-device announcements, Nielsen waxed poetic about the future of measurement, Facebook got reprimanded by the industry for mistakenly exaggerating its average view times for video and Tapad rolled out a new time-based metric. The... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // September 29th, 2016 //

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Google Expands Free Measurement Tech For Its Marketing Cloud

Google will expand its free marketing measurement software by adding an A/B testing product (Google Optimize), a data reporting and dashboard-creation tool (Google Data Studio) and new machine learning capabilities for Google Analytics. These products will be available in an open beta starting next month. “The ultimate goal is to provide a kind of analyst... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // September 28th, 2016 //

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