Category: Marketing & Advertising

With the expansion of data privacy laws and deprecation of consumer identifiers such as third-party cookies, customers across the advertising and marketing industry are investing in first-party data and identity solutions that allow them to connect, control, and activate data quickly and securely. However, challenges like data security, interoperability of identity data between parties, and […]

Advertising platforms running scaled data workloads typically need to ingest terabytes or petabytes per month of fine-grained data about digital events such as ad impressions or ad clicks—all while controlling costs. For platforms running ultra-low latency real-time bidding and ad serving workloads, performance and cost requirements are even more extreme. Ad tech companies must respond […]

Customer intelligence company Acxiom provides data-driven solutions that help marketers worldwide better understand their customers to create better customer experiences and drive business growth. To deliver these customer experiences, Acxiom builds and manages a large number of machine learning (ML) models on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using services like Amazon EMR—a solution for rapidly processing, […]

Introduction Few industries test the limit of database throughput and latency like advertising technology (ad tech). Industry leaders like The Trade Desk run workloads with tens of millions of read and write events per second and single-digit millisecond response times. Growing media consumption in areas like connected TV, over-the-top (OTT) streaming, and retail means that […]

We have an exciting re:Invent 2021 planned for customers in the advertising and marketing technology industry. This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) heads back to Las Vegas to celebrate 10 years of AWS re:Invent with five keynotes, 20+ leadership sessions, and over 1,200 breakout and interactive sessions from November 29 through December 3—including several industry-specific […]

In our last blog, Third-party Cookies are Going Away: What Should Retailers Do about It?, we discussed Google’s announcement that third-party marketing cookies will go away by the end of 2023. To recap quickly, this decision appeases consumers who want more privacy and control over their personal data and online behaviors, and it helps eliminate […]

Every website is required to ask for consent to drop first- and third-party cookies on your browser, though not all do. While you may not know exactly how cookies work, you likely know that cookies track user information. A cookie is a small text file that lets a website remember you. There are two forms […]

We were lucky to share some amazing customer stories at re:Invent 2020 focused on the advertising and marketing technology industry. With all of the announcements and keynotes, you’d be forgiven for not having time to watch each industry-specific session. That’s why we’ve compiled all of the sessions specific to advertising and marketing technology for you […]

TripleLift is a technology company rooted at the intersection of creative and media. The company’s real-time advertising platform inserts products and brands natively into media across desktop, mobile, TV, and streaming video. Research shows that native advertising that matches the look and feel of media experiences drives improved consumer recollection and impact. For example, product […]

We have an exciting re:Invent 2020 planned for the advertising and marketing industry. For starters, re:Invent is a free, three-week virtual conference this year—and anyone in the industry can register to learn from over 500 breakout sessions, keynotes, and live content. This year’s conference also features more advertising and marketing industry sessions than any prior […]