by Johann Kwan with research by Lily Wang On October 1st, 2018, Acxiom, one of the world’s largest data brokers, sold its Acxiom Marketing Solutions (AMS) division to the advertising giant Interpublic Group (IPG) for US $2.3 billion and consolidated its resources under its subsidiary brand, LiveRamp. AMS is Acxiom’sRead More →

CIPPIC intern Dustin Mores offers a tour of the different kinds of products offered by data brokers.  He goes over each of the three main categories of products: (1) marketing products, (2) risk mitigation products, and (3) “people search” products. Theme music: “Cool It” by Nctrnm, licensed under CC BYRead More →

Welcome to CIPPIC’s Data Broker Project Podcasts.  In this podcast, CIPPIC Director David Fewer describes our project – why we are studying data brokers, how changes to technology over the past decade have changed the industry, and how we look at data flows.  We give a look ahead at whatRead More →