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For B2B Marketers, the Future is Behind the Firewall

Written on
May 6th 2013
Author
Mark Dye

ADOTAS — Much of the attention of the digital marketing community seems to be focused on RTB and the endless debate about its effectiveness for advertisers, ad tech companies and publishers. While this tired RTB discussion self-perpetuates, a much more interesting and potentially disruptive movement is taking root. Marketers are now looking [...] more...

Not All DMPs are Created Equal: What Every Smart Marketer Should Know

Written on
April 26th 2013
Author
Rob Gatto

ADOTAS – As the ad-tech ecosystem has evolved over the past two to three years, I hear a lot of major brands, agencies and networks/marketplaces asking about data management platforms (DMPs).  Some have called the DMP “the gateway to the next step in the evolution of digital marketing” or the [...] more...

Today’s Burning Question: Facebook Acquires Microsoft Atlas

Written on
February 28th 2013
Author
Mike Daly

Today our panel of ad-tech honchos weighs in on the following question: “What is your reaction to Facebook’s acquisition of Microsoft Atlas?” “Facebook’s Microsoft Atlas acquisition is a conscious step toward solving the social media measurement conundrum. Advertisers have long debated over the tangible value of social networks when it comes [...] more...

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Reap the Rewards of Big Data Advertising

Written on
January 31st 2013
Author
Eric Porres

Luxury marketing executives know reaching the right audience is critical to marketing success. Campaigns must reach and “speak to” high-income, luxury-minded, brand-conscious consumers, instead of just reaching mass-market audiences like other brands. That’s why it’s so important for luxury brands to embrace “Big Data” advertising – analyzing every bit of [...] more...

Your Days Are Numbered, Tag

Written on
June 7th 2012
Author
Marc Kiven

ADOTAS – Ask any digital marketer, IT pro, web analyst, publisher or service provider how they feel about tags. Their answers will likely range from slight annoyance to resounding disgust, depending on the day, project, team, campaign or initiative. Aside from tag management system (TMS) providers, nobody in the digital marketing business seems to [...] more...

Cut Through the Noise in Targeting with First-Party Data

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April 18th 2012
Author
David Dowhan

ADOTAS – The biggest problem with “big data” in the advertising ecosphere isn’t bigness, per se. It’s the attendant noise factor (in scientific parlance) that thwarts the most diligent efforts to divine meaningful direction from so much third-party data… and there is a lot of data out there. How do [...] more...

Aqua Media Direct Announces “Pre-Targeting”

Written on
March 23rd 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Earlier this week, ad targeting solutions provider (and self-styled “online display specialty company”) Aqua Media Direct quietly launched what they’re calling “PRE-Targeting,” a method of delivering ads to targeted audiences based on which kinds of audiences are inclined to visit which sites. The company uses third-party data, analysed [...] more...

Tags Are ‘Outdated’: BrightTag Announces Partners for Server-to-Server Data Flow System

Written on
October 24th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – A slew of impressive third-party ad tech firms — including Interclick, Aggregate Knowledge, Turn, Marin Software, DataXu, Adometry and [x+1] for starters — have signed up as partners for BrightTag’s ONE platform, a service layer between websites and third parties that removes the data transfer process from the browser and onto a server-to-server connection. “We [...] more...

eXelate Infuses Audience Data Into Cognitive Match’s Dynamic Creative Targeting

Written on
October 21st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS - As we wrote earlier this week, hunting down cookied users on the exchanges for retargeting purposes can prove to be absolutely useless if the ad itself is completely irrelevant to the surrounding content. However, relavent ad creative is another pertinent part of the retargeting equation — I personally hate [...] more...

Defining ‘Data Management Platform’

Written on
September 29th 2011
Author
David Jakubowski

ADOTAS – This summer, Forrester Research released an independent report on Data Management Platforms, “The DMP Is The Audience Intelligence Engine For Interactive Marketers.” In the report, Forrester defines a DMP as: “… a unified technology platform that intakes disparate first-, second-, and third-party data sets, provides normalization and segmentation [...] more...



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Take the Display Advertising Survey for the Chance to Win a Jawbone Jambox!ADOTAS – Industry discussions about cookies, privacy and the impact on display advertising have been frequent — and, in some [...] more...

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