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At Tuesday’s ONE22 conference, NBCUniversal shared its second update on its ad tech stack One Platform’s developments for its clients. “Identity will be the new currency,” said NBCU’s chief data officer, John Lee, which means One Platform will focus on three key areas of growth this year: first-party data, automation and measurement.

Since Fortune was sold by Meredith to a private investor in 2018, it’s been laser focused on striking branded content partnerships with advertising clients through the Fortune Brand Studio – and it’s paying off. The business new publisher generated around $100 million in revenue last year, a third of which came from its digital advertising and subscription business.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Double Dutch Salesforce and Oracle got a holiday gift from the Court of Amsterdam in the Netherlands last week, which dismissed a lawsuit brought against them by The Privacy Collective (TPC), a data privacy advocacy group.  TPC alleged that the companies breached the […]

Media.Monks, S4 Capital’s content, data and media arm, is going big on Salesforce. On Wednesday, Media.Monks merged with Maverick Digital, a 50-person Salesforce consulting and implementation firm with a presence in North America and India. The deal price was not disclosed. Maverick Digital, whose clients include UFC Gym, Mercy Health and the Chicago Blackhawks hockey […]

Salesforce rolled out a revamped version of its customer data on platform on Thursday with additional bells and whistles in the form of smarter segmentation, deeper integrations with Tableau and Mulesoft and expanded partnerships for data activation. “We’re fully embracing the CDP category,” said Robin Grochol, SVP of product management for Salesforce Marketing Cloud. That […]

“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 Martin Kihn, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud.  Considering the future of post-cookie ad data management, a dominant scenario goes like this: Brands gather more first-party data from customers, […]

Over half (52%) of marketers say that they use Salesforce or Microsoft as their customer data platform, according to the most recent Advertiser Perceptions report on the CDP market. Clear evidence that the marketing clouds are dominating the CDP category … right? Here are a few grains of salt. For one, when Advertiser Perceptions conducted […]

Google utterly dominates the identity resolution marketplace, with LiveRamp and Salesforce trailing in the middle distance. That’s according to the most recent Advertiser Perceptions ID resolution marketplace report, which found that most advertisers and agencies (29%) use Google as their primary identity resolution solution. That number drops to 13% apiece for LiveRamp and Salesforce. Amazon, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Digital Wins, And So Does The Triopoly Digital is expected to account for the majority of US ad spending this year, an industry shift driven (or forced?) by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WPP media buying unit GroupM. GroupM expects US ad spend to […]

Zeta Global has hoovered up a lot of ad tech over the last two years, acquiring Sizmek’s DSP, Rocket Fuel’s DMP, IgnitionOne’s DSPand PlaceIQ’s managed media business. The spree was a departure for the 12-year-old marketing cloud, traditionally known for its CRM and data solutions. How’s the rollup strategy working out? CEO David Steinberg joins […]