Around 15 years ago, I got a frantic phone call from one of the sales reps on my old digital sales team. “Who is this Blue Kai company? Everyone is talking about them and their data!” She was enraged. Blue Kai, then just an upstart consumer data company, was making generic behavioral targeting data accessible to the masses by creating a marketplace. This, as she put it, would destroy our business, as we were one of the trailblazers in the behavioral targeting space, owned consumer data subsidiary Sitemeter (so we had our own exclusive data with more scale/fidelity), and were highly differentiated.
My Love / Hate Relationship with the Omni-Channel DSPs in DOOH
