Category: Analytics
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Goodbye Customer Data Platforms
Last night Myles Younger shared the a16z primer The Rise of the Composable CDP. As I was reading I was confused when it was written. Composable CDPs rose about 2 years ago after the SaaS vendorscape of CDPs with their long integrations and high fees were platformed themselves by what they were running on, namely…
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Singularity: AdTech and MarTech are Converging
Owners of first-party data are pioneering new and different sets of technical solutions to old advertising and marketing use cases. It is merging two markets previously separate, together as one. The results are expected to be something the industry has been waiting almost two decades for. A step-change in performance of digital marketing and advertising.…
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Beginning of the Endpoint: AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks Compete/Connect in Marketing Cloud
The oil that makes the cloud run is data. At the start, AWS and S3 provided a simple storage service for data. It was web-based, secure, scalable and cheap. It changed the game. It’s been 17 years now since S3 launched and kicked off the “Cloud Wars.” Not only have Amazon/AWS Google/GCP and Microsoft/Azure been…
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Always On – Marketing Use Cases for Streaming Data Apps
Marketing Cloud maturation means your Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure and GCP instances are going to be more connected to real-time data streams and apps. For brands this data flows in the form of precious first-party data and unlocks a new world of marketing possibilities. Data modeling, machine learning and real-time algorithmic decisions will become the…
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End of the CPM Experiment
The flag bearer of display advertising was always Yahoo. Their massive sales force stoked 15 years of equity into “the web banner.” Yahoo arguably had the greatest hand in providing the economic foundation for the entire web for many of its formative years. That is why nothing better symbolizes the collapse of that foundation better…
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Talkin’ 2011 Publisher Revenue Blues
"Well, I finally started thinkin' straightWhen I run outta things to investigate." -Bob Dylan It’s been a while since I’ve posted here at Optimize and Prophesize and even longer since I posted regularly. As has been the tradition here in all but my first year blogging in 2006, I provide a yearly recap of my…
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Yieldbot Begins Empowering Publishers with Intent Data
“If you think about the [advertising technology] stack there’s lots of necessary elements but it seems to me the meat in the sandwich is the intelligence layer. It’s the engine that figures out, if-this-then-this. If you think about what the most important part is that seems to me to be at the nucleus.” -Terrence Kawaja,…