NBCUniversal Working With Google, LiveRamp To Use First Party-Data For Personalized CTV Ads

NBCUniversal said it is working with Google and LiveRamp to deliver more effective personalized commercials on connected TV. NBCU is implementing Google’s Display & Video 360 Publisher Advertiser Identity Reconciliation (PAIR) system, which lets it make its own first-party data more compatible with data from clients. NBCU would be the first major CTV provider using PAIR live later this quarter.

LiveRamp And Kinetiq Partner To Strengthen TV Analytics

Data connectivity platform LiveRamp and Kinetiq, a scalable solution to unify paid, earned and owned TV impressions at the household level, today announced a new partnership to streamline measurement of all TV […]

LiveRamp Buys Data Plus Math, Expands Into TV

Data Plus Math, the company that helped A+E Networks and NBCUniversal offer some of the first TV-related business outcome guarantees to marketers, has been acquired by LiveRamp, the data-management platform company for marketers. The deal is for $150 million — $120 million in cash and $30 million in “time-based” equity.

LiveRamp Brings IdentityLink To Television

LiveRamp on Monday officially announced the extension of its IdentityLink platform into television, allowing marketers to support people-based TV media planning, buying and measurement.

Consortium Takes On Facebook, Google

Looking to curtail Facebook and Google’s competitive advantage in people-based marketing, global ad-tech companies have set up a consortium to make targeting technologies available through a wide range of channels. The initial group of companies in the consortium include AppNexus, LiveRamp, MediaMath, Index Exchange, LiveIntent, OpenX and Rocket Fuel.