Data solutions provider and Oracle acquisition target BlueKai has released an update designed to expedite a very unsexy but nevertheless crucial element of data-driven marketing: the onboarding process. Continuous Fast Ramp updates the company’s Fast Ramp product released last summer. Fast Ramp was designed to improve the data onboarding timeframe to weeks from the industry-average […]
NetProspex, a cloud-based data management company focused on B2B marketing, has raised $13 million in Series C funding from Spring Lake Equity Partners. NetProspex has grown from 78 employees to 110 from the end of 2013 until now. The company plans to utilize its new funding for sales and marketing development, as well as add […]
Ex-Googler Graham Cooke believes that just as the data-management platform (DMP) space has evolved and entered a period of consolidation and attracted new cash injections, so too will the tag managers. Prior to founding Qubit in 2010 with Emre Baran, who spent four years in product management on Google AdWords and AdSense, and two other former Googlers, […]
Barely two weeks after basking in the glow of its BlueKai buy, enterprise software giant Oracle is at it again – this time debuting an open paid media partner API program for Oracle Social Cloud. One of the many questions arising from the BlueKai deal (as well as other Oracle Marketing Cloud acquisitions including Responsys, […]
Is the union between Oracle and BlueKai, in the words of Ovum Research Senior Analyst Gerry Brown, a case of “the cat amongst the pigeons?” There might be some credence to the idea. As Brown points out, BlueKai is (or has been) a champion of open systems. Oracle is not. “Certainly few BlueKai partners will […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. It is written by Joanna O’Connell, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. The rumor mill exploded late last week, with talk of a BlueKai acquisition by technology giant Oracle, and today, Oracle made it official. Extending the thinking from a […]
Oracle’s planned acquisition of data exchange and solutions provider BlueKai pushes Oracle deeper into marketing tech. Like its peers IBM and SAP, Oracle had prioritized business departments like supply chain, finance and HR above media buying and digital marketing. And rather than building a marketing and ad stack from scratch in order to clinch CMO […]
Enterprise software provider Oracle moved further into targeted advertising by acquiring BlueKai, a third-party data provider and data management platform (DMP). Analysts and vendors differ however, on the mobile advertising implications behind the acquisition. Bluekai’s technology will be combined with Oracle’s Responsys application, which is geared toward B2C marketing campaigns, as well as Eloqua, which […]
Oracle will acquire data services and technology company BlueKai for an estimated $350 to $400 million, bringing together one of the largest enterprise software companies with a market leading data management platform (DMP). If the acquisition goes through, it would help solidify the Oracle’s previously uncertain position in the digital advertising space. It also represents […]
BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discusses what his company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is a continuation of a series that previously featured John Nardone, CEO of [x+1]. On Tuesday we’ll post an interview on this subject with Bill Demas, CEO of Turn, and on Wednesday we’ll post an interview with Scott Howe, […]
A data-management platform (DMP) panel held Wednesday at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview 2014 revealed the philosophical differences held by four major DMP providers in terms of how the technology should best be implemented and used. The panelists – CEOs Scott Howe of Acxiom, Omar Tawakol of BlueKai, Bill Demas of Turn and John Nardone of [x+1] […]
Both agencies and ad partners draw comparisons between Twitter’s launch on Thursday of retargeting product Tailored Audiences and Facebook Exchange (FBX). Just how technically similar they are remains to be seen, but the industry is buzzing about the ad product’s cross-channel targeting potential. We asked some Tailored Audience partners, media agencies and a beta tester to […]
Traffic accidents are more orderly than the backend of most websites. At any given moment, a multitude of information fires off a page — information about who a visitor is, where she came from, her operating system or device profile, which ads are being served up, which videos are being played, etc. This has created […]
Today’s DMPs clearly stand out from each other and from other parts of the digital marketing landscape, according to the Forrester Wave DMP Q3 2013 report. Forrester Principal Analyst Joanna O’Connell profiled seven players that are pushing the envelope. More than as a result of competition from each other, the increasing use of mobile devices – and […]
Given the recent IPO and M&A frenzy, it should come as no surprise that some ad-tech players saw strong revenue growth in 2012, as reported today in the Inc. 500/5000 list. But even keen observers might be impressed by the surges at some data-management providers, in particular DataXu (ranked No. 5 among the entire list with […]
Last month, BlueKai signed a deal to build a data management platform for MLB Advanced Media, the interactive business division of Major League Baseball, designed to connect the company’s 30 team websites for advertisers. MLBAM was the fifth publisher BlueKai has added to its client list this year. CEO Omar Tawakol tells AdExchanger that while […]
Velti is providing BlueKai, a data intelligence company, access to its mobile marketing data, thanks to a new partnership launching today. Aggregated data from Velti’s RTB mobile ad exchange, called Mobclix, will now be a part of the data available for BlueKai clients, which will expand reach and better target mobile and cross-platform campaigns. Velti […]
Here at AdExchanger, we love data. We tell you how brands are using it to target consumers and leverage programmatic buying. But beyond that, it can often be confusing just how marketers use all of the data collected throughout their entire marketing strategies. So we decided to ask the data, analytics, and insights companies this […]
“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 Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai. Pricing a shared asset like data can be counterintuitive. Data is a non-rival good, like a toll road. Even though people expect to pay for and […]
Online-to-offline marketing analyst Korrelate has been working with data management platform BlueKai to demonstrate the link between online ad data and offline purchase behavior in the auto category. (Read the release.) We spoke with Daniel Jaye, who has taken the company’s reins as CEO, with founding CEO Curt Viebranz stepping into the chairman role. Jaye helped start one […]
On its surface, a new relationship between BlueKai and Canadian ad startup Datacratic resembles many other data partnerships in the real-time bidding space. BlueKai will use Datacratic to bring a new “look-a-like” modeling capability to its platform. The DMP’s customers can augment already-live campaigns with more reach by comparing the attributes of converters to identify […]
Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an ad technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Tawakol late last month to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of BlueKai today. Click below or scroll for more: BlueKai In The Past Year […]
BlueKai recently announced a deal with SEM firm Efficient Frontier to provide “BlueKai Intent” which, according to a press release, provides marketers with “another way to buy in-market audiences — defined by existing search keyword lists — and reach them outside the walls of search engines with any media partner.” Read the release. BlueKai business […]
Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an online data exchange. Tawakol recently discussed his company’ strategic direction with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Looking at the new website, it seems BlueKai’s business is evolving? Can you touch on how? OT: BlueKai’s business is constantly evolving to respond to new demands that we see in the industry but we […]
Aggregate Knowledge announced that it has adopted “BlueKai‘s new server-to-server data transfer technology, which greatly increases the efficiencies in which BlueKai data is transferred and delivered for ad campaign targeting and optimization within the AK Discovery Platform.” Read more. Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, an audience management and real-time ad optimization platform, […]
BlueKai released its latest Pulse Index with particular focus around car buyers and insights such as “the appearance of Kia and Hyundai in the Top 20 Car Models may indicate a shift in intent towards more ‘value’ -focused brands. “. Download the Pulse Index (PDF). And, read the release. BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discussed the […]
Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai, discussed today’s announcement regarding a new $21 million round of funding (Read the release.) with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Obviously, this is a big round. What plans can you share regarding future areas of investment at BlueKai and where this round will be funneled? OT: One area in particular will get a […]
Yesterday, BlueKai announced the second edition of its BlueKai Pulse which looks at intent data across its data exchange through the end of November. The report offers insights on consumer buying trends much like the company’s new analytics tool, BlueKai In-Market Reports, which includes access to a a panel of 160 million unique users across […]
Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an online data exchange. AdExchanger.com: Regarding your new BlueKai Certification Program, ad networks and buying platforms must be excited – you’re performing lead gen for them, are you not? What is BlueKai getting? OT: Yes, the new program is definitely designed to drive agency leads directly to our partners. […]
