Identity

This article is sponsored by LiveRamp. After an unprecedented 2020, this year has already seen a series of announcements around the impending end of third-party cookies, restrictions on mobile IDs and potential solutions. As the ad ecosystem evolves rapidly, it’s clear there is an immediate need for identity solutions that restore consumer trust, are durable […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mathieu Roche, CEO of ID5. The post-cookie identity debate is often presented as follows: users who authenticate themselves and provide their email address can be identified over time and across sites; all others are […]

“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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. We all knew the day would come when third-party cookies and device IDs would no longer be the Rosetta Stone of the industry. We are […]

“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 Joshua Koran, head of innovation labs at Zeta Global. How would you feel if a proverbial Big Brother controlled all data access and processing on the web? There are certain […]

“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 Frances Giordano, group director at Media Kitchen.  As we move closer to the February 2022 sunset of third-party cookies by Google, marketers must identify alternative ways to capture information and execute […]

Ad-Lib.io, a company founded by a group of former Google execs in 2017 and which offers creative workflow tools, has clinched an additional $6 million in Series A financing. The latest round brings its total funding to $12 million in less than two years and will be used to accelerate the growth of the London-based […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taking A Hit The ongoing pandemic is still throwing IPG for a loop as the holdco rethinks its structure for the year ahead. IPG reported net sales of $8 billion in 2020, a 6.5% decrease compared with the previous year, The Wall Street Journal […]

After reporting its fourth quarter results on Wednesday, Criteo’s stock popped by more than 17% and hit a 52-week high. Criteo’s stock has gone up more than 300% over the past year. Criteo, whose revenue grew by 1% in Q4 to $661 million, is taking a clear-eyed approach to the end of third-party cookies, Criteo […]

Contextual targeting online dates back more than a decade. But the technique is having a renaissance as marketers test out strategies that work in a cookie-free world. In contextual targeting, a machine scans page content and places a digital ad relevant to that context. Natural language processing allows contextual tech providers to understand nuances of […]

Marketers looking for their customers in contextually relevant environments will be able to do so via a new partnership between Media.net and LiveRamp. Media.net is connecting its contextually-focused exchange to LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution. The combo enables private marketplace buys that have been curated to include both a marketer’s own customers and the contexts they […]