Category: Marketing & Advertising

Personalization is a key element in elevating the customer experience. It involves tailoring products, services, and interactions to meet the unique needs and preferences of each individual customer. When done effectively, personalization impacts positively business performance, making customers feel understood and valued. It also helps businesses differentiate themselves from competitors, increasing loyalty and advocacy. Personalized […]

Programmatic advertising applications leverage large volumes of data (petabyte scale) to make decisions on delivering personalized experiences to users. Organizations need to have a granular visibility into their data transfer cost to make better decisions on the bidding process and leverage cost optimized design patterns. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers different tools and techniques to […]

Launched in July 2023, AWS Entity Resolution has been helping organizations like Best Western Hotels, Merkle, ActionIQ, and Thompson Reuters to more easily match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels and data stores using advanced matching techniques including rule-based and machine learning (ML)-powered matching. The service capabilities have enabled these companies to […]

Real-time Bidding (RTB) has transformed online advertising by automating ad transactions through auctions, enhancing efficiency and precision. However, RTB faces challenges like transparency issues and ad fraud risks. Using Databricks on Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses these challenges with the Databricks Real-time Bidding Accelerator, which leverages machine learning and predictive analytics to optimize RTB strategies, […]

Earlier this summer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted a series of events and meetings with hundreds of customers and partners at Cannes Lions. Data clean rooms was a popular topic amongst these conversations, as advertisers and marketers are increasingly looking to future-proof their approach to more securely collaborating with their partners on their collective datasets. […]

Businesses across industries increasingly want to complement their first-party data with partners in order to generate more insights for use cases such as creating a more complete view of their customers, optimizing marketing and advertising campaigns, and improving reporting and measurement. At the same time, these companies want to protect their underlying data and are […]

This post is co-written with Isabel Hughes, Senior Content Specialist, at DeviceAtlas and Ronan Cremin, Chief Technology Officer at DeviceAtlas Around the Web in 100 milliseconds In the time it takes to load a web page, several programmatic auctions have already started, ended, and served the winning ad impressions. Real-time bidding (RTB) is a unique […]

There were a large number of new service announcements as well as partner and solution announcements that came out of AWS re:Invent 2022. To make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers, we have identified a list of top announcements specific to this industry. Session summaries and access details to content on demand is […]

There is customer data across more sources today than ever—from email, websites, and mobile apps, to physical stores, social media platforms, and more. Such data, which a company directly collects from its customers, is referred to as first-party data or signal (1P signal). Creating actionable insights, and next-best actions for specific users or segments, from […]

Introduction Acxiom partners with the world’s leading brands to create customer intelligence, facilitating data-driven marketing experiences that generate value for customers and for brands. As experts in identity, ethical use of data, cloud-first customer-data management, and analytics solutions, Acxiom makes the complex marketing system work, applying customer intelligence wherever brands and customers meet. By helping […]