Back in November, Experian Marketing Services acquired cross-device data provider Tapad from its previous owner Telenor. In this episode, Experian Marketing Services President Genevieve Juillard describes the rationale for that deal and why she is rooting for greater fragmentation of the identity landscape.
Rupen Desai, global CMO of Dole Packaged Foods, is on a mission to help democratize nutrition. Embracing digital transformation is a big part of that, but there’s more to the story, especially in a year when food insecurity has become particularly acute as a result of the ongoing pandemic.
InfoSum is a company to watch. The four-year-old data services business enables onboarding, the development of new identity solutions and other use cases with a focus on privacy and data security. In this episode, Wetzel describes its underlying technology – including “non-movement of data” and “data bunkers” – and where it's seeing uptake.
Even before the 2020 pandemic sent everyone to streaming environments, NBCUniversal has aggressively developed technologies designed to help advertisers reach out to audiences across all platforms.
“We’ve been on a journey to invest in the convergence on media across digital and streaming for years,” says Krishan Bhatia, NBCU president and Chief Business Officer.
In this Industry Preview podcast, Bhatia gets into how advertisers are trying to achieve scale by reaching across all platforms, the future of linear TV given all its headwinds and the future of the ad pod.
The ad industry is making progress in the fight against ad fraud, says Michael Tiffany, president and co-founder of bot detection firm White Ops, which recently got acquired by Goldman Sach. But don’t rest on your laurels, because when fraud leaves one corner of the internet … it creeps into another. Fraud is on the rise in CTV.
Engine Media Exchange CEO Michael Zaharski grades the industry’s progress in solving the identity challenge, and discusses key challenges facing the TV and CTV channels.
The agency embrace of programmatic is a long story with many twists and turns. This week, Stephan Beringer recounts how and why Publicis Groupe dramatically restructured its VivaKi AOD trading desk six years ago, and describes the aftermath of the episode.
With almost a year of the pandemic under our belt (Ugh), brands have by now figured out a way forward. In many ways, the measures they’ve had to take in response to COVID-19 has set them up for future success – a future without a health crisis, but where streaming and online buying are both happening en masse. In this special Industry Preview fireside, two agency chiefs – Belinda Smith of m/SIX North America and Tom Denford of ID Comms – analyze the vast transformation of 2020 and what 2021 holds for ad buyers.