AdRoll Group Rebrands as NextRoll, Launches Marketing Platform Services

Releasing the APIs powering the RollWorks and AdRoll business units, NextRoll continues evolution beyond retargeting roots

AdRoll Group announced it has rebranded as NextRoll, Inc., a marketing and data technology company. Additionally, NextRoll is introducing external APIs to open its infrastructure, technology and data to a wide array of new companies. NextRoll is now comprised of three business units: RollWorks, an account-based platform for B2B marketing and sales teams; AdRoll, a growth marketing platform for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands; and NextRoll Platform Services, a marketing-technology-as-a-service offering for brands, agencies, marketplaces, publishers, and marketing platforms to enhance current marketing capabilities or enable new revenue streams.

As online marketing has become more complex, many companies must choose between building their own technology stacks or working with closed-system providers, which can result in losing control, flexibility and customer insight. Now, with NextRoll Platform Services, companies can access leading marketing technology, data and channels without sacrificing relationships with their key audiences. For example, marketplaces can improve demand generation by giving their customers access to premium tools and audiences from NextRoll.

NextRoll Platform Services leverages rich data assets for unified, people-based profiles across first-, second- and third-party data, including more than 500 million identities and 1 billion devices. Additionally, NextRoll’s machine-learning capabilities enable companies to provide marketing messages, activate curated audiences and measure which efforts drive the greatest impact. NextRoll Platform Services customers can scale as needed, with a global infrastructure that covers 110 countries and manages up to five petabytes of stored data and 12 trillion real-time events processed daily.

“We’ve built an unrivaled marketing and data technology stack that enables marketers to better understand and engage with their audiences to make measurable decisions,” said Toby Gabriner, CEO of NextRoll. “With our new NextRoll Platform Services, we can offer these benefits to more companies, and allow them to innovate on top of our offerings. As we launch NextRoll Platform Services, it’s clear we’ve grown beyond our old name. Today, NextRoll is a marketing and data technology company.”

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Services available include:

Channels-as-a-Service

Channels-as-a-Service from NextRoll Platform Services allows businesses to expand their marketing solutions to new channels, including display ads, social media, native ads, email and video across devices enabling their customers to attract and re-engage audiences. With integrations to over 20 publishers and exchanges from Channels-as-a-Service, users can access the best inventory at any time to accelerate budget fulfillment and hit performance goals. They also gain granular insights into conversion, audience, performance and delivery data.

Audiences-as-a-Service

Many companies end up with vast amounts of raw audience data that is difficult to comprehend. With Audiences-as-a-Service from NextRoll Platform Services, companies have a unified and normalized view across identities and platforms within their existing data set, turning data into targetable segments they can ingest at scale and use in real-time. With this view, companies can better understand and serve each customer or segment. Companies can also enrich internal user profiles by leveraging the NextRoll database or package up these audience insights into premium, targetable segments for resale.

NextRoll Platform Services currently has 10 large customers that drive nearly $1 million in revenue per month, and has significant traction in the pipeline. A key contributor to the momentum is an existing joint venture with Rakuten in the Japanese market that leverages NextRoll Platform Services.

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