IBM, Mediaocean announce #blockchain consortium to tackle what’s wrong with #adtech

A great post by Barry Levine of MarTechToday – “A variety of startups are using blockchain as a way to add transparency to the notoriously opaque ad tech system, including NYIAX, Kiip, Kochava and MetaX. And now a new ad-focused blockchain consortium has recently been announced by heavyweights IBM — through its iX digital agency — and advertising software provider MediaOcean. It already…

Simpli.fi Announces Addressable Geo-Fencing Solution

Simpli.fi, the programmatic advertising platform built for the scale of localization and personalization, today announced Addressable Geo-Fencing, an addressable programmatic advertising solution that uses plat line and GPS data for precise location targeting at scale. For Simpli.fi, Addressable Geo-Fencing is the next logical step in the localization and personalization of programmatic advertising and is built…

#AdTech Giant MediaMath Raises $225 Million

The New York-based firm will use the capital to buy out an investor, spend on technology and fund acquisitions. Ad-tech company MediaMath has raised $225 million from investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners, an unusually large funding round in a sector rife with turbulence and consolidation. New York-based MediaMath has raised more than $500 million to…