
Lucidity’s new report shows a successful field test for blockchain-based ad optimization
Impression and click match rates for mid-campaign optimization away from “discrepant” sources, per the Lucidity report. Blockchain and...

How could Facebook’s use of blockchain affect marketing and advertising?
Since Facebook and Instagram play a vital role in many brands’ marketing strategies, how could the company’s use of blockchain-based...

How the IAB Tech Lab’s new PrivacyChain could solve one of consent management’s biggest problems
The IAB Tech Lab’s visualization of PrivacyChain, where “audience” = “consent record.” (Click to enlarge.) The new privacy blockchain...

Gartner’s Andrew Frank: Third-party validation of brands, content is coming
In five years, a video player will show some indicator, like a star, that validates the brand video as genuine by a third-party...

Aivon launches blockchain-based protocol for ‘first decentralized video search engine’
Aivon’s depiction of how its new token-based community will work Metadata is the Achilles heel of video. These shorthand textual...

IAB Tech Lab launches primer and resource hub on ad-oriented blockchain tech
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab has been moving quickly to catch up with blockchain. A week ago, its Blockchain Working...

IAB Tech Labs launches blockchain-analysis pilot program
It seems like every other day a new startup is claiming it can cure the woes of digital advertising with blockchain — while doubters...

IBM, Mediaocean announce blockchain consortium to tackle what’s wrong with ad tech
A variety of startups are using blockchain as a way to add transparency to the notoriously opaque ad tech system, including NYIAX, Kiip,...

Kiip undertakes ‘first’ blockchain-recorded mobile ad campaign
More than a few blockchain startups have declared a goal of making the digital ad ecosystem transparent. But mobile ad platform Kiip has...

Evrythng launches a blockchain-utilizing orchestration hub for consumer products
Blockchain-based companies have been touting the protocol’s capabilities for tracking ingredients, maintaining digital identity and...

NYIAX partners for the first outside instance of its patent-pending asset exchange
Last year, a startup called NYIAX announced it was adapting the technology of the Nasdaq stock exchange to create a blockchain-based...

A new report bursts the blockchain bubble
A new report sticks a pin into the huge hype bubble surrounding blockchain. The report from research firm GlobalData, “Blockchain –...

The story of data, Part 4: Will it ever be truly secure?
Data is an inherently vulnerable thing. Numbers and words, bits and bytes: It can have great power, but it is continually in peril of...

Lightstreams seeks to solve a blockchain vulnerability: It’s too public
One of blockchain’s main selling points is that all of its transactions are public. Even in private blockchains, transactions can be...

MetaX launches a blockchain-based whitelist of websites
Santa Monica, California-based MetaX has created a blockchain-based platform for applications geared toward solving some of digital...

NYIAX ‘completes the loop’ with cryptographic ad verification from Rebel AI
NYIAX is a kind of back-to-the-future use of blockchain tech for advertising. Instead of attempting to mirror the lightning-fast...

Bottos launches a marketplace for data to train AI models
Countless marketing platforms are utilizing artificial intelligence, such as predictive modeling that recognizes patterns. But, to...

Grabbr employs blockchain tech to lock-record its social sharing
Social referral marketing platform Grabbr has launched a blockchain-based ledger to transparently track key events. Based in Franklin,...

DigitalBits launches open-source blockchain-based marketplace for loyalty points
All those points and rewards that consumers have accrued with credit cards, air miles programs and coffee shop purchases might become...
























