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Snap Buys Location-Based Marketing Measurement Vendor Placed

Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. has acquired Placed, which tracks the locations of opt-in audience members. Among other services, Placed matches its list with ad audiences provided by marketers to compare the behavior of people who saw an ad to those who didn’t. Price wasn’t disclosed but Geekwire said the deal could be worth more than $200 million.

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Segment Helps Companies Track Visitors Across Company-Owned Domains

June 7, 2017

Customer Data Platform vendor Segment has introduced Cross Domain Analytics, which lets brands track customer activity across their own digital properties by using second party (i.e., shared) cookies. This lets them avoid reliance on third party cookies owned by other companies. Segment notes that second party cookies are less likely to be blocked than third party cookies, providing more complete information. The downside is Cross Domain Analytics won’t track customers across other companies’ properties.

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Ad Blocking Hits 40% And Rising: AdBlock Plus and Global Web Index

June 5, 2017

Ad blocking by consumers isn’t a response to fake news, although it does threaten the economics of both legitimate and illegitimate publishers. A study from AdBlock Plus and Global Web Index found that 40% of respondents used an ad blocker in the past month. Ad blocking is likely to increase since it’s more common among younger users, just over half the respondents still don’t know ad blockers are available, of U.S. and mobile ad blocking happens less often in the U.S. (so far) than in Asia.

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