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Tencent Enters US Market With Ad Solutions And Access To Vast Amounts Of User Data

Chinese tourists spent $35 billion dollars in the US in 2016. WeChat parent company Tencent rolled out a suite of advertising tools on Thursday to help US brands reach that spendthrift audience both in China and abroad. The scale of Tencent’s audience is staggering. WeChat alone has 963 million monthly active users, nearly three times... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // September 21st, 2017 //

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Developing A Data Strategy Is A Lot Of Work – But The Juice Is Worth The Squeeze

Mindshare Chief Data Officer Rolf Olsen and Oleg Korenfeld, EVP of ad tech and platforms at Spark Foundry, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26 in a presentation titled “Data Accuracy and the DMP.” Partnering with a data management platform doesn’t count as a data strategy, said Rolf Olsen,... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // September 19th, 2017 //

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Got Blockchain Game? IAB Tech Lab Seeks Brainiacs For New Working Group

The IAB Tech Lab launched a blockchain working group on Monday to explore how the digital ledger technology can benefit the advertising industry. Read the blog post. Richard Bush, chief product and tech officer at NYIAX, and Michael Palmer, mPlatform’s global director of product, co-chair the group – which is looking for members to join... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // September 18th, 2017 //

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Machine Learning Startup Amperity Exits Stealth Mode With An Eye On Helping Brands Do More With Their Data

Personalization is a top agenda item for most brands, but data management technology still leaves something to be desired. Machine learning could provide the answer, said Kabir Shahani, CEO and co-founder of Amperity, a Seattle-based startup that came out of stealth on Thursday Since raising $9 million in Series A in February, Amperity has been... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // September 14th, 2017 //

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Equifax Unifies Data Assets, Including IXI, Under Marketing Suite

Equifax said Wednesday it will roll its marketing capabilities, which include credit marketing and financial services data from IXI Services, into a single service offering called Equifax Data-Driven Marketing (DDM). In doing so, the company hopes to make it easier for marketers to work with its household economic data and tools for analytics, audience segmentation,... Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // August 16th, 2017 //

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Acxiom And Adobe Team Up To Connect The Passenger Experience At Heathrow Airport

Every year, 75 million passengers travel through Heathrow Airport, shopping, eating and engaging with services as they wait to board their flights. But despite the thousands of interactions passengers have with its concessions, Heathrow itself knows very little about those people, said Simon Chatfield, head of eBusiness and CRM at Heathrow Airport. “Most of that... Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // August 8th, 2017 //

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Screen6’s Identity Resolution Platform Aims To Act As Matchmaker For Lonely, Siloed Data Sets

Even vendors need vendors. On Monday, cross-device provider Screen6 launched an offering called The Hub that Chief Strategy Officer Keith Petri called “a DMP for platforms.” “The fact is, data management is not as straightforward as our clients or even we have viewed it,” he said. The ecosystem is choked with data platform players ranging... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // July 31st, 2017 //

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This Programmatic Marketplace Is Just For Financial Services Advertisers

Financial services marketers can’t bank on regular demand- and supply-side platforms to find the prospects they’re looking for. The data just isn’t there, said Phillip Rosen, CEO and co-founder of Even Financial, an ad tech provider for financial marketers. On Tuesday, the company added a programmatic marketplace offering to its existing supply-side API to help... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // July 11th, 2017 //

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AI Had A Modest Showing At Cannes, But Here Are Some Notable Developments

Despite the tech company takeover of Cannes, the ad industry’s current infatuation – artificial intelligence – confined its appearances to panels and presentations. But a few AI aspirations (“deployments” is too strong a word in many cases) are worth calling out. Tencent The Chinese maker of the popular WeChat application has a machine learning agenda... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // June 22nd, 2017 //

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DMA Wants To Help Demystify Identity With Cross-Industry Council

Marketers know they need to wise up on cross-channel identity and attribution technology. But it’s hard to know how to approach the vendor landscape when it feels like the entire LUMAscape is blowing up your inbox every morning. “’Barbarians at the gate’ is an apt analogy – sometimes, that’s how it feels,” said Simon Shulman,... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 21st, 2017 //

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