Identity Graph Analysis at Scale Provides Ad Tech Agency Customers with Greater ROI
The Challenge
When the agency was founded in 2011, they analyzed public declarations of location on social media. As the company grew, that analysis expanded to other forms of declarative data beyond social media.But as time went on, people were not only using more devices, they were performing different actions on each. And the Ad Tech agency’s original product wasn’t optimized for recognizing a consumer across all devices.
“We needed to be able to capture data from multiple devices and associate it to a single individual,” said the Chief Technology Officer of the Ad Tech Agency.
Even more challenging was the fact that pieces of data were continually changing, a result of the fact that people frequently purchase new devices and clear cookies from their browser.
As a company that defines and sells audiences to large companies across several industries – from automotive to beauty to entertainment – the agency needed to find a way to provide cross-device insights, fast.
They found their solution in Neo4j.
The Solution
The Ad Tech Agency now relies on a stack that includes Neo4j, Node.js, Ruby, Go, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark, BigQuery and MongoDB.When the agency’s identity graph receives a signal from a device, it collects an originating device and/or cookie ID, which then points to the owner of the device – the user.
The identity graph then queries the device and all signals associated with it, and performs processing based on the user ID. They can then export audience data to any target device ID in the identity graph to potential advertisers.
Their identity graph relies on Spirograph (an internal Ruby app) to communicate with Neo4j by either inserting data into or pulling data from the graph in Ruby, which is then processed in Hadoop, Spark and BigQuery. The identity graph also relies on Cerebro to convert user coordinates into a commercial
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