Sometimes, it takes a while to fully grasp what something truly is. Blockgraph is a bit like that.
From the start, we understood why Blockgraph was created. It was designed to unify fragmented data within an increasingly complex #convergedTV marketplace (a critical need should TV advertising continue to thrive), all while ensuring necessary privacy and security protections (a must-have for any company involved in today's advertising industry).
However, articulating exactly what Blockgraph is has often been a challenge.
• Customers frequently ask, "Are you another clean room?" Well, sort of.
• "Are you an ID?" That's part of it, but it doesn’t capture why we’re unique.
• "Are you a TV data consortium?" Yes, but not quite in the way you might think.
In reality, Blockgraph is all of these things and more. Yet, I recognize that no business, especially a four-year-old startup, can be everything to everyone.
Much like in life, there are moments that bring clarity. Blockgraph’s fourth anniversary and several key partnerships provided our team with just such a moment.
Blockgraph is exactly three things:
1) A Privacy-Centric Household Identifier: Derived from authenticated data, this identifier forms the foundation for unifying the connected TV industry’s data.
2) A Data Collaboration Platform: Our software offers data owners flexible, secure, and efficient technology to manage first-party data, facilitate peer-to-peer data matching, and enable more fluid planning, targeting, and ad measurement.
3) A Purpose-Built Ecosystem: Comprising internet operators, publishers, distributors, marketers, adtech platforms, data and measurement partners, all of whom have a vested interest in facilitating converged TV ad campaigns.
That leaves, the “how” we do all of this better than alternatives.
We’d be happy to answer that. Just let us know when you’re free :)
Marketing Leader for at Datavant
1moA great partnership, congrats, everyone!