Oracle has launched a combined anti-fraud, viewability, brand safety ad solution based on its Dyn (2016), Moat (2017), and Grapeshot (2018) acquisitions. Called Pre-Bid by Moat, is integrated with major DSPs. Ad quality has been a hot topic recently, what with a massive Android app ad fraud uncovered by BuzzFeed and a CHEQ study that found consumers hold brands responsible for inappropriate ad placements.
Open source data integration vendor Talend has purchased Stitch, which offers self-service data movement into cloud data warehouse platforms. That sentence covers so many trends – including open source, self-service, data integration, and cloud-based applications – that I could take the rest of today off.
Consumers are underwhelmed by what they get for the data they already share: in this survey from identity management vendor Janrain, just 18% said online ads “often” seem to understand what they want while although 47% offered a grudging “sometimes”.
CDP Twilio Segment has added an Amazon Redshift connector (in public beta) to Linked Audiences. This enables Segment queries to integrate data residing in Redshift without importing it. Similar connectors are already available for Snowflake and Databricks.