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Highland Math Forms First Data Co-op Of Data Sellers

Data transparency is all the rage in digital advertising, but data companies themselves still exist in a world of black boxes and inscrutable spreadsheets. Highland Math was founded last year to help address the issue, by creating a consortium of data providers that pool their own returns to create a market research data set. The... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // February 13th, 2019 //

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Buyers And Broadcasters Are Impatient, But Recognize Nielsen And Comscore Have ‘A Tough Road’

Nielsen and Comscore take a lot of heat for moving too slowly and failing to provide the sort of cross-channel measurement buyers and sellers say they crave. But cut ’em some slack, said Beth Rockwood, SVP of portfolio research at Turner. “Both Nielsen and Comscore have made good advances in the last year and they’re... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // February 8th, 2019 //

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The FTC Rethinks Its Role In The New Data Economy

The ad tech industry might soon be facing a more punitive FTC. While the consumer privacy and protections agency traditionally came down on blatantly fraudulent advertising, like rebilling scams, or improperly targeting children, the influx of data-driven technology has required the FTC to reevaluate its agenda. With consumer privacy protections becoming a more pressing issue,... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // January 29th, 2019 //

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Marketers Must Step Back From Personalization And Automation

“We’re privacy-centric,” said every marketer ever. But what was once a reflexive statement must now be backed by substance. Despite excitement about harnessing data to send the right message to the right person at the right etc., marketers must now wrestle with whether they should simply because they can. One of the major themes at... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // January 28th, 2019 //

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Verizon Isn’t Cutting Off The Subscriber Data Spigot To Its Media Unit – At Least Not Yet

Verizon still intends to allow the entity formerly known as Oath, now called Verizon Media, to access subscriber data for advertising purposes. It was reported on Wednesday that the telco’s new CEO, Hans Vestberg, was planning to completely pull the plug on feeding data from subscribers into its media unit. Verizon Media told AdExchanger that... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // January 10th, 2019 //

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Nielsen’s Q2 Audience Benchmark Shows How Connected Devices Are Reshaping Media

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The old adage applies to the new media landscape, where sweeping technology changes have scattered US audiences across new devices but has also greatly increased the amount of content consumed per year. The average American adult watches 5 hours and 24 minutes per day of... Continue reading »

by James Hercher // December 13th, 2018 //

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United States and United Kingdom Lead World In Programmatic Maturity, WFA Study Finds

The United States and United Kingdom are dominating in programmatic innovation, but Germany could be the next big player in the space, according to a study released Thursday from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). The WFA analyzed 13 countries with significant ad markets. The group looked at programmatic spend per capita, amount of private... Continue reading »

by Rae Paoletta // December 6th, 2018 //

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Advertisers Will Spend More Than Ever On Third-Party Data, Despite Privacy Concerns

Will privacy legislation be the death of the third-party data ecosystem? Not according to the IAB Data Center of Excellence. Marketers are on tap to spend $19.2 billion on third-party audience data as well as technology and solutions to manage, process and analyze all that data, according to a joint IAB/Winterberry Group report released Wednesday.... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // December 5th, 2018 //

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Running Shoe Brand Brooks Uses A CDP To Make Its Data Go The Mile

When Brooks embarked on an initiative to organize its data last year, it was ready to sprint. But a year into the project, the running shoe brand was still nowhere near the finish line. “It was just going so slowly,” said Mark McKelvey, the company’s VP of information technology. Granted, Brooks had a lot of... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // December 4th, 2018 //

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Travel Ad Platform Sojern Flies High With $120 Million In Fresh Funding

Sojern is hopping a flight to funding town. The 10-year-old travel-focused ad tech company announced a monster $120 million financing round, technically a Series D, on Tuesday led by TCV partners, a growth equity firm that has also invested in Airbnb, Expedia, ExactTarget, AppNexus and Netflix. This is Sojern’s first raise since its $10 million... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // November 13th, 2018 //

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