Our latest whitepaper answers the question “Why PII?” What does it mean to take control of your digital destiny? We’ve spent most of the year on this blog attempting to answer that question. This has meant exposing gaping cracks in the crumbling cookie economy. Sizing up Big Tech’s true intentions as data becomes more guarded and walled […]
The New Year is right around the corner, making it the perfect time to start planning your New Year’s marketing campaigns. We’ve curated a premium list of four custom audiences from our consumer audience database, BRIDGE CONNECT℠, that you can leverage in your next campaign. All of our data is timely, accurate, and complete so […]
The holiday season is right around the corner. This year’s retail sales are expected to grow between 6.5% and 8.2% to more than $4.33 trillion, a sign of increasing vaccination rates and businesses reopening. Now is the time to ensure your holiday campaigns are resonating with your customers. Focus on these channels to help elevate […]
Don’t let Google control your cookieless destiny Suddenly, marketers need options. Here’s why you should forge your own path this time. If you build it, they will come. And spend hundreds of billions of dollars. And be beholden to you forever. (Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha….) That’s the Google business model. I guess “Don’t be evil” just had a […]
Down with the middle man! Too many tolls on the path to publisher ad profits Why today’s $200B programmatic paradigm just doesn’t hold water There was a game we played as kids. A few lines would form and each person at the front would start with a full bucket of water. They’d dump it behind […]
Back to School Season is Here Sharpen those pencils folks, it’s that time of year again! As schools reopen and students welcome back in-classroom education, the 2021 back-to-school season is expected to make up for the shopping slack we saw in the previous year. Back to school spending is set to hit an all-time high […]
Will the real identity resolution providers please stand up? For years, companies calling themselves identity resolution providers have frolicked about like pigs in slop. They’ve built billion-dollar businesses on the back of a promise to match real humans to anonymous, cookie-based profiles. A noble feat to be sure. That is, if they were actually delivering […]
Walking the PII Talk AdExchanger was out recently with a great primer on how to evaluate an identity solution. The tl;dr is to respect privacy, focus on value, enhance data for targeting, and create a single view of the customer. Yes! Yes, yes, yes! It’s obvious, right? So…why aren’t more companies doing all these things? […]
Reach Post-Pandemic Travelers In Three Easy Steps Lockdowns, countries shuttering their borders, and flight cancellations had a severe impact on the travel industry and the global economy. However, there is a bright side on the horizon. 72% of Americans plan on traveling in 2021, setting this year up to be a banner year for tourism. […]
Live sports are back and better than ever! Across the United States, there has been an increase in sports betting for live events held at casinos, sports arenas, and through consumers’ mobile devices. In fact, U.S. commercial gaming revenue in April grew more than 26 percent from April 2019, fueled by rising vaccination rates, an […]