Here’s an alliance between data vendors. Time Inc.-owned Viant, which has an advertising audience database of 1.2 billion registered users, is adding information from retail data aggregator IRI. Marketers will get a clearer picture of advertising results at fine levels of detail, although not tied to identified individuals.
Openbridge provides a data integration software and services with prebuilt connectors for over 600 systems, including many marketing automation, personalization, and analytics tools. They’ve built some connectors themselves and have now launched a “data marketplace” including connectors from other vendors, including the Segment CDP as well as Fivetran, Funnel, Stitch, and Alooma. Openbridge also provide professional services to help with challenges such as customer identity matching. It’s an interesting approach.
There’s probably a Yiddish proverb about every cloud having a silver lining, but I don’t know it. In the meantime, ad buying platform Amobee is treating brand safety and fraud prevention as promotable features. Amobee scans programmatic inventory from more than fifteen exchanges, filtering suspicious bids, fraudulent mobile apps, and objectionable content. Buyers get refunds if verified errors slip through.
Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.