
Sojern joins forces with PubMatic to expand Travel Audience Data Curation
Creating personalized, targeted campaigns requires finding the right mix of audiences and inventory supply. Curation is a preferred option, enabling real-time optimization and measurement so brands can create relevant ads that drive results. By using a multi-ID approach, curation enables advertisers to work directly with supply-side platforms (SSPs) to strategically combine first-party data, Sojern travel segments, and premium inventory.
'It's clear that curation offers an exciting future for programmatic advertising, and while we've worked with PubMatic for many years, this partnership shows that we're committed to delivering vertical-specific curated advertising to our clients,' said Josh Beckwith, Vice President, Global Corporate Sales at Sojern. 'This relationship will fuse Sojern's best-in-class travel data and multi-ID audiences with PubMatic's best-in-class inventory, and allow us to optimize both in real time, creating curated campaigns using our clients' preferred supply path.'
The partnership unlocks new opportunities for advertisers to activate Sojern's real-time vertical-specific traveler insights directly within PubMatic's curation and data solution, Connect. This integration enables more precise targeting and transforms audience curation into a powerful tool for programmatic advertising and performance.
"Today's advertising needs to work for everyone. Consumers want privacy and relevant ads, while brands need quality advertising space and brand safety," said Amélie Grenier-Bolay, Country Manager, Italy & MENA, PubMatic. "Strategic curation brings together advertisers, publishers, and audiences by filtering content for quality and relevance. This partnership with Sojern is a perfect example, providing marketers with access to travel data for more effective targeting while ensuring privacy protection and maintaining brand safety. The result is better transparency, more control, and stronger performance across the board."
About Sojern
Sojern is the leading marketing platform built for hospitality, designed to boost growth and profitability for the travel industry. The Sojern marketing platform is a set of easy-to-use software and services that delivers unrivaled traveler insight, intelligent audiences, multichannel activation and optimization, and a connected guest experience—all in one place. More than 10,000 travel marketers rely on our platform annually to find, attract, convert and engage travelers. Founded in 2007, Sojern is headquartered in San Francisco, California with teams in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific.
About PubMatic
PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM) is an independent technology company maximizing customer value by delivering digital advertising's supply chain of the future. PubMatic's sell-side platform empowers the world's leading digital content creators across the open internet to control access to their inventory and increase monetization by enabling marketers to drive return on investment and reach addressable audiences across ad formats and devices. Since 2006, our infrastructure-driven approach has allowed for the efficient processing and utilization of data in real time. By delivering scalable and flexible programmatic innovation, we improve outcomes for our customers while championing a vibrant and transparent digital advertising supply chain.
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