People-based marketing

Successful SPO reviews and new products highlight significant growth with brands and agencies OpenX reported recent milestones from the company's business unit dedicated to building and expanding brand, agency and DSP relationships. With new and renewed SPO partnerships, new products, and a new senior executive leading the team, the buy-side of the OpenX business has grown on multiple fronts, bringing valuable demand to the OpenX Exchange for publishers. Marketing Technology News: Virtu Lauches Open Technology, a…

Hi Paul, tell us more about your role and team you handle at OpenX. My role as CTO at OpenX covers a variety of functions across the business. Part of this involves overseeing and structuring internal tools and technology, looking at everything from the Cloud platform our business runs on (GCP) to the processes we set up to run our global help desk. I also oversee our Product team -- thinking about what we’re building and how that ties to benefits for our partners and revenue for OpenX. Whether looking at internal…

Talk to Your Salespeople Instead. Let me share my biggest pain, the nightmare that is still keeping me up at night. Two years ago, when we launched Influ2, winning the first few customers was easy. Our product, person-based ads, was new and exciting. No one had ever done it before, so naturally many enterprise marketers were anxious to take it for a spin. But, these “wins” were delusions. What do you do as a digital marketer when you come across a new technology? You conduct an experiment. Spending a few thousand…

TripleLift is the first native exchange to offer programmatic people-based marketing on the open web TripleLift, the technology company that invents, powers and scales ads that earn consumer attention, has partnered with LiveRamp, the trusted platform that makes data accessible and meaningful. With this partnership, marketers will be able to leverage native creative executions with enhanced addressability for targeting and measurement capabilities on the open web, matching the quality and performance of walled gardens. For…

Driving a Shared Mission of Providing Advertisers and Marketers With Actionable Real-World Insights Aligned to Digital Signals Quadrant.io, the leading data and technology provider specializing in high-quality mobile location-based data, has partnered with LiveRamp, the leading identity platform powering exceptional customer experiences, to bring its best-in-class audience data to the LiveRamp platform and its marketplace of data buyers across the Asia-Pacific. LiveRamp IdentityLink connects people, data, and devices…

Customized Offering Improves Retailers’ Personalized Experiences for Shoppers Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, announced the launch of New Stream Media, a solution that allows retailers to grow their digital ad revenue, create more personalized experiences for consumers, and form unique partnerships with manufacturers. “With the creation of New Stream Media, Merkle aims to provide an additional revenue opportunity for retailers during a particularly competitive time in…

Allianz Global Assistance Reveals Top 10 Domestic and International Destinations for Holiday Travel Americans are traveling for the holidays more than ever, according to Allianz Global Assistance's Top 10 Holiday Destinations survey. After analyzing 3.3 million flight itineraries, the travel insurance and assistance company discovered a 24 percent increase over last year and a 42 percent increase from 2017. Read Also: Tinuiti Taps Amar Braithwaite as SVP, Social Media After reviewing plans for travel from December 19…

Patent is the 8th issued to leading digital advertising exchange OpenX announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company U.S. Patent 10,410,245, "System and methods for using a revenue value index to score impressions for users for advertisement placement." The patent highlights the vision that OpenX had years ago of allowing both marketers and publishers to better assess the value of an individual user behind a screen, and ensure ads are shown at a fair price that offers maximum value…

Lotame has announced the launch of Lotame Cartographer, a new people-based ID solution at the Lotame Ignite Americas Conference in New York City. Lotame is the world’s leading unstacked data solutions company that helps publishers, marketers and agencies find new customers, increase engagement, and grow revenue through audience data. The powerful ID graph delivers complete, consistent, and privacy compliant data connections to power people-based marketing for global brands and publishers. At the time of this announcement,…

To enable brands and advertisers with targeted advertising opportunities, AccuWeather announced the launch of AccuWeatherIQ™. What happens to the shopping experience when it rains or snows in the US? Would a flood-like situation impact online grocery sales on weekly sales in India? What would it look like for advertisers who invested millions on targeted advertising campaigns to suddenly realize it’s going to lose because of a typhoon or a hurricane? How is the consumer behavior related to weather information, and how…

LiveIntent data suggests these campaigns should optimize for Friday and Sunday afternoons LiveIntent, the people-based marketing platform that reaches 250 million logged-in people each month via its 2,500 brands and publisher partners, announced new data around campaign performance for back to school campaigns. The study found that tablets are the best performing device, with a 50% higher CTR compared to PCs and phones. LiveIntent conducted the study by examining dozens of back to school campaigns from top retailers…

Industry Veteran to Lead Growth of Company’s New Identity Business LiveIntent, the people-based marketing platform powered by the email address, announced that it has hired Industry veteran Jon DeGennaro as VP of Identity Sales to lead growth for the company’s newly launched Identity Business, centered around its on-boarding service.  Launched in April, LiveIntent’s on-boarding service seeks to right the wrongs of the industry by bringing the value of first-party data back to the brands and publishers who are able to…

Supercharged Product Marketing Services Will Power LiveIntent’s Platform and Identity Business LiveIntent, the people-based marketing platform powered by the email address, announced the appointment of industry veteran Jessica Muñoz as VP of Product Marketing. Muñoz comes to LiveIntent after serving as the Director of Product Marketing at MediaMath, where she oversaw the company’s  suite of Intelligence products, including the launch of Intelligent Bidder (co-developed with the IBM Watson Marketing team). Prior to…

Tell us about your role and the team/technology you handle at OpenX. I serve as OpenX’s Chief Brand and Communications Officer. OpenX is the world’s largest independent advertising exchange and the first people-based Marketing platform built for the open web. My team leads the organization’s brand positioning and marketing as well as all of our market research efforts designed to help brands and publishers effectively navigate the constantly evolving Digital Advertising landscape. How different is the global Digital…

The explosion of digital channels, platforms, and devices is both a blessing and a curse for retailers. Retail Marketers can reach audiences in new ways, but budgets need to stretch further as customer journeys become more complex. Taking a smart, Data-driven approach to measurement is essential for understanding what’s working, what’s not, and where to spend the next marketing dollar. By embracing these four measurement best practices, modern Retail Marketers can get the accurate, actionable insights they need to improve…

Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, announced that it has won the 2019 Pegasystems Award for Partner Excellence in Digital Transformation. The award recognizes Merkle’s leadership and expertise in developing and delivering marketing solutions built upon the Pega Platform for enabling one-to-one customer engagement. The partner awards were announced during PegaWorld, which took place June 2-5 in Las Vegas, NV. This marks the sixth Pega Partner Excellence Award for Merkle. “One of…

Partnership Leverages Narrative’s Automated Data Workflows and Safe Room Capabilities to Immediately Scale Liveintent’s Ingestion and Distribution of Its Clients’ Offline and Online Files and Provide File Transfers Never Before Possible LiveIntent, the people-based marketing platform, has selected Narrative to accelerate the rollout of its recently launched onboarding service that publishers and brands looking for identity independence. Narrative offered a white label experience, turnkey connectivity, and an easy-to-use…

OpenAudience Will Provide Marketers the Ability to Easily Plan and Buy Advertising for Every Digitally Addressable Consumer Across the Open Web For the past decade, the most effective way to advertise in digital media has been on Facebook and Google. Marketers in the US now spend two-thirds of all digital ad spend on the "walled gardens", despite the fact that they receive less than 36 percent of total consumer time spent online. According to eMarketer, addressing this massive asymmetry in advertising - where tens of…

Marketo Customers Now Able to Leverage IdentityLink™ to Connect First-Party Data to Digital Advertising Efforts LiveRamp – a leading identity platform for powering exceptional experiences – announced its partnership with Marketo, an Adobe company, to leverage IdentityLink from within Marketo. Starting, Marketo users can connect their first-party customer data to the broader digital advertising ecosystem, enabling marketers to create more precise and secure target lists. Through this integration, Marketo and LiveRamp come…

Take the MarTech Fitness Drill! Well, Adobe, Through Its Recent Announcements at the Adobe Summit 2019, Has Exemplified Why the MarTech Fitness Drill Is Key to Customer Experience and Success Strategies At the ongoing Adobe Summit, the leading Analytics and Customer Experience technology provider announced key updates to its offerings and services. These announcements are largely focused on accelerating the adoption and scaling of Customer Experience initiatives that have been long-pending due to lack of insights, data…