Remember when targeting TV ads at individuals seemed like an impossible dream? Today, options abound. Streaming TV hardware vendor Roku is the latest to monetize its customers, offering an audience marketplace based on its direct customer relationships.
“Digital ID Audience Targeting” is the kind of headline that attracts my attention and presumably yours, Dear Reader. So I flagged this item from identity data vendor Infutor but then struggled to figure out what it meant. Beneath it all, Infutor is appending email addresses to clients’ existing customer records. Nothing new about that but cleverly positioned as a way to improve match rates for social and programmatic display campaigns. Good for them.
Other times the problem is making sure people are really who they claim to be. Ping Identity does that for corporate employees and partners as well as customers. They’ve just bought Elastic Beam, which helps block cyberattacks through API connections.
CDP and marketing automation platform Bloomreach announced the availability of a next generation version of Bloomreach Engagement. Deploying Bloomreach’s Loomi AI capabilities, campaign creation within Bloomreach Engagement will become something “one marketer can complete in minutes.” Campaigns can be scaled across fifteen-plus channels.