Want to track across devices? Then you’re going to have to enter the walled gardens of Google and Facebook. But the open ecosystem is working hard – and working together – to catch up. It’s in this spirit that MarketShare launched Monday a “Consortium for Cross-Device Measurement,” which for now includes Drawbridge, Crosswise, Tapad and […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Azad Jacobs, head of business operations at Drawbridge. Marketers increasingly and understandably want paid media to be viewable, and with that desire comes the need for third-party measurement and validation. […]
The realm of brick-and-mortar retail data has been steadily absorbed by digital technology in recent years, and that trend took another step forward on Wednesday with the launch of the Cross Device Marketplace by Placed, an in-store attribution firm. While Facebook and Google have put considerable effort into developing retail-specific solutions, Placed founder and CEO […]
Drawbridge has measurement on the mind. The probabilistic cross-device platform rolled out new reporting functionality Tuesday designed to peel away a few more layers of the attribution onion, including reporting around multitouch and cross-device path to conversion. Rather than giving each ad equal weight, Drawbridge is instituting time-weighted attribution on a sliding scale, in which […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rahul Bafna, vice president of product management at Drawbridge. The biggest opportunities for brands and advertisers still live offline. People may be using the Internet more than ever before, but […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, founder and CEO at Drawbridge For the past five or six years, we’ve been told that it will be the “Year of Mobile.” Not this year. With companies […]
Drawbridge sees itself as the democratizer of cross-device identity. “We’re the folks that provide cross-device connectivity for inventory that isn’t on Facebook and we do it without PII,” said Nimeshh Patel, Drawbridge’s VP of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Drawbridge – whose technology analyzes various non-personally identifiable data points, […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Devin Guan, vice president of engineering at Drawbridge. In the weeks since Apple previewed iOS 8 in June, there has been a lot of talk in the digital advertising industry […]
Want to see a marketer rip out her hair? Ask her to begin identifying consumers across devices. It’s not an easy thing to do, but vendors have been building tools to help. When Experian Marketing Services acquired 41st Parameter last October, it also got the latter’s subsidiary, AdTruth. AdTruth’s core product is the AdTruth ID, […]
Solutions that analyze various data points such as device types, location data from an ad request, operating systems and other data to evaluate matches between users and devices are gaining traction. For instance, AdMobius, which offers probabilistic solutions, is rumored to be an acquisition target. But pinning down the accuracy rate of probabilistic solutions continues […]
