{"id":370,"date":"2019-06-29T19:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seventh-studios.com\/project\/harper\/?p=349"},"modified":"2019-06-29T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T19:36:55","slug":"thunder-announces-first-ad-platform-using-liveramps-entire-identity-graph-for-personalization-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/thunder-announces-first-ad-platform-using-liveramps-entire-identity-graph-for-personalization-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder announces first ad platform using LiveRamp\u2019s entire identity graph for personalization, measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The creative ad platform\/server now describes itself as the only \u2018people-based ad server\u2019 covering LiveRamp\u2019s hundreds of millions of profiles.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marketingland.com\/author\/barry-levine\">Barry Levine<\/a>&nbsp;on September 25, 2018 at 5:54 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>MORE<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marketingland.com\/wp-content\/ml-loads\/2018\/09\/Thunder-graphic-800x450.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248926\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makethunder.com\/\">Thunder Experience Cloud<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveramp.com\/\">LiveRamp<\/a>&nbsp;are announcing a new partnership that offers the first personalization and measurement ad platform for the entire LiveRamp identity graph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are the first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/martechtoday.com\/will-people-based-marketing-take-200914\">people-based<\/a>&nbsp;ad server,\u201d Thunder CEO Victor Wong told me. His company provides a creative ad management platform and server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>People-based profiles versus cookie-based.<\/strong>&nbsp;LiveRamp\u2019s IdentityLink provides access to people-based profiles, which are built from online and offline (physical stores) data to reflect individual people instead of digital-only targets. Anonymized, they are then tied to cookies or mobile device IDs so that advertisers can target those specific individuals when they show up online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This contrasts with directing ads at cookies or mobile device IDs, several of which might inadvertently represent the same person. Or cookie\/device ID-based ad targeting might provide little accumulated data about a single person\u2019s activity or ad exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zjF-qQRn-GA?feature=oembed\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The usual LiveRamp scenario.&nbsp;<\/strong>Previously, Wong said, Thunder typically employed shared IP addresses to determine if a tablet, smartphone and laptop were owned by at least the same group of people. Now, it\u2019s determining through LiveRamp if they are owned by the same person. This partnership, he said, moves his company from household-based to individual person-based data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The usual LiveRamp scenario, he said, is that a brand provides CRM data about its own customers, which are then matched via persistent identifiers to LiveRamp\u2019s profiles so that the brand can target those same customers online. Sometimes, a brand might expand into similar profiles via lookalike attributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How person-based advertising differs.&nbsp;<\/strong>Thunder, he said, rebuilt its entire platform over the last year so it can utilize the entire LiveRamp identity graph, about 300 million profiles worldwide. This is the first time the LiveRamp data has been used for ad personalization and measurement for users beyond a brand\u2019s own customers, Wong said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By personalization, he means tailoring the ad message to the person, such as a coupon to a new customer or avoiding an ad about sneakers to another customer because that user recently bought a pair of sneakers. LiveRamp specializes in mapping offline data like sales in physical stores to online profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By measurement, Wong means attribution to give ad exposure credit for sales or other actions, but also A\/B testing that can determine which had better online or offline results by tracking an individual user\u2019s activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why you should care.<\/strong>&nbsp;The idea behind person-based profiles is that real-world as well as online data accumulates into a person\u2019s profile, representing an actual consumer. This contrasts with the many digital-only profiles that could exist for a single person, each a set of possibly overlapping \u2014 but incomplete \u2014 web behaviors, or demographics, or locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/martechtoday.com\/guide\/gdpr-the-general-data-protection-regulation\">General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)<\/a>&nbsp;and the upcoming California privacy law take hold, individuals will be looking for more control over their entire profile, so individual profiles can help with that kind of privacy management. And personalization \u2014 the goal for many marketers \u2014 is really only feasible when you are addressing a complete picture of a single customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creative ad platform\/server now describes itself as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiharper.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}