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Martech: Analytics & Data

Kiip undertakes ‘first’ blockchain-recorded mobile ad campaign

The mobile marketing firm is now writing an Anheuser-Busch audit trail to a public blockchain, where all stakeholders can view all the data.

Barry Levine on June 22, 2018 at 11:58 am
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More than a few blockchain startups have declared a goal of making the digital ad ecosystem transparent.

But mobile ad platform Kiip has now launched what it calls the “first-ever blockchain mobile ad campaign.”

The effort actually involves several separate campaigns for Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer and maker of Bud Light, Budweiser, Michelob Ultra, Estrella Jalisco and Stella Artois.

Detailed data about the campaign is written in real time to a local file that, Kiip founder and CEO Brian Wong told me, is “not technically a blockchain,” but acts like a placeholder ledger. Once an hour the data is then batch-written in encrypted format from the local ledger to a public Ethereum blockchain, which is available for viewing and auditing as .csv files by every stakeholder via downloads to a wallet or to a distributed app (DApp).

[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]



About The Author

Barry Levine
Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.

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