first-party data platform

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… This comic first ran on January 7, 2022.

When the pandemic hit, the global marketing team at Japan Airlines saw its budget disappear overnight. But rather than sitting, idle, JAL used the downtime to get its global marketing house in order and prepare for the day when Japan reopened its borders.

Bloomberg Media just turned off third-party ads on its site. But as it shuts the door to open-market programmatic, Bloomberg is opening a first-party data advertising platform. The business media giant described the change as part of a broader evolution in how online advertising works. “The reason we chose to make this investment is because […]

In order to gain access to performance advertising budgets (and prove out the power of publisher first-party data), Vox Media is relaunching Group Nine’s G9 Direct performance marketing solution under the new name VM Connect. The relaunch is also a milestone in Vox Media’s integration of Group Nine’s digital properties and tech stack following its […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Programmatic and privacy don’t have to be mutually exclusive, even though they’re often treated that way, according to Joe Root, CEO and co-founder of London-based publisher technology startup Permutive. “A privacy-first web is about removing the data leakage that’s inherent in programmatic,” Root said. Permutive aims to stop that leakage with technology infrastructure to preserve […]

Food52 is taking the lid off its first-party data platform. The hybrid publisher-retailer concluded it needed to improve ad buyers’ access to its data, said Matt Greenberg, SVP of brand partnerships at Food52.  Advertisers were asking Food52 about its data, so the demand was already there. And publishers are building first-party data solutions left and […]