Oracle is big. Huge. But, the fact is, Oracle Data Cloud (what is now Oracle Advertising) doesn’t have and has never had 5 billion people in its ID Graph, regardless of Larry Ellison’s flair for the dramatic.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Did The Oracle Get It Wrong? Is it time to call it on Oracle Advertising? The group had painful layoffs this summer and has fallen behind rivals, Insider reports. Oracle spent $4 billion to package BlueKai, Datalogix, Moat and more into what’s now […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bot-And-Mouse Game The low-hanging fruit of ad fraud is mostly gone. But more sophisticated bad actors are still active. Protected Media identified an in-app bot fraud network, dubbed “Hydra,” that siphoned off an estimated $100 million, Business Insider reports. “It’s the most disciplined operation […]
Hulu is moving into phase two of its advanced TV strategy almost two years after launching its private exchange. But the market has changed since then, and Hulu has evolved its own ad technology stack in lockstep. For starters, Facebook shuttered the LiveRail supply-side platform (SSP) and ad server last year, so Hulu migrated to Tremor’s video SSP. Rather than entering a drawn-out RFP […]
With Omar Tawakol departing as head of Oracle Data Cloud, Eric Roza, who served as the unit’s co-SVP after Oracle acquired his company Datalogix, will become GM. Roza had previously focused on Data Cloud’s go-to-market strategy and will now oversee product, engineering, operations and data science. But he’s also shepherding Data Cloud through a philosophical […]
Greek-yogurt brand Chobani stays competitive with larger CPG companies by constantly testing. One of these tactics includes marketing-effectiveness studies, such as a recent research initiative with Yahoo and Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) to prove search ads drove in-store sales. “If you’re an ecommerce brand, you can measure that sale directly,” said Jessica Lauria, senior director […]
YouTube is starting to measure the offline sales lift for consumers exposed to its viewable video ad format TrueView. Through a tool called DLX ROI Sales Lift for YouTube, developed in partnership with the Oracle Data Cloud, Google is telling CPG advertisers that its video ads not only have brand impact, but that they drive […]
Oracle 1.0 was more about databases than device graphs. But as Oracle methodically built out a Marketing and Data Cloud, that changed. For the latter, marrying data management platform BlueKai with offline data tool Datalogix unlocked new capabilities. For instance, it can validate metrics that purport to measure links between TV, digital and sales. Oracle […]
Quantcast is tapping its deep ties to publishers by linking digital data signals to offline attributes like sales and TV viewership. The company is rooted in direct audience measurement and embeds its tags across millions of publisher pages. By looking at this data anonymously in aggregate, Quantcast can supply advertisers and publishers with intel around cross-site […]
Although Oracle’s acquisition of Datalogix hasn’t officially closed yet, some industry insiders have speculated the deal underscored Oracle’s interest in identity-based marketing. Marketers need richer audience profiles that include known and anonymous attributes, meaning platforms should include, but also go beyond, cookie syncing, Kevin Akeroyd, SVP and GM of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, told AdExchanger. “The CMO […]
