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What do you like best about Permutive?

top notch customer service, white glove treatment. the data/privacy space is tricky enough to navigate without an innovative partner helping guide the way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

Permutive is a very innovative platform/product offering. Other DMP-like platforms have been able to iterate off Permutive's firsts in the space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

as a publisher, we see the value of all services from Permutive. however, we are somewhat beholden to the marketing/advertising side to catch up and realize the same value. Permutive is helping drive that facilitation as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Permutive?

Permutive empowers publishers, advertisers, and media owners to navigate the digital advertising landscape with greater safety and predictability. By unifying, orchestrating, and connecting the advertising ecosystem, we streamline and enhance business operations. Our patented Edge technology underpins The Audience Activation Platform, which efficiently collects, analyses, and models first-party data. This enables businesses to engage and monetise audiences in a seamless and profitable manner. Trusted by over 150 publishers, including News Corp, Hearst, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Penske Media, Future plc, the BBC, The Guardian, Vox Media, Insider, Hubert Burda Media, Condé Nast International, Trusted Media Brands, Hello!, and Unify, Permutive helps protect and grow more than $1 billion in ad spend.

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Permutive allows publishers to own the data on their entire audience. Real-time proprietary data gives publishers the ability to understand their audience. With unique insights, you can drive more revenue and personalize user experiences.


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Permutive
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2016
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118 employees on LinkedIn®
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Permutive is a technology company specializing in data solutions for publishers and advertisers. Their platform enables businesses to leverage first-party data for audience segmentation and targeting, enhancing digital advertising effectiveness. By focusing on privacy-centric approaches, Permutive helps clients optimize their advertising strategies while maintaining compliance with data protection regulations. For more information, visit their website at https://permutive.com.


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Alistair S.
AS
Head of Commercial Data &amp; Insight
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

Working in media and intelligence for over 20 years, I have used many different tools in my time. What makes Permutive so good is not only the ease when building segmentation but the mass of insights, data and intelligence it brings which benefits multiple areas of our business not only the commerical stakeholders. Permutive software goes so much further than other DMP's in helping to understand in build large or even niche audiences using mutliple differnt identifiers. Justification has never been more important for buyers and being able to provide the intelligence of who the audience is and how they behave gives the buyers and ourselves as a media owner peace of mind Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

There are very few things to dislike about Permutive. Probably the only frustration is that Permtutive are so good in looking at audiences and intelligence for standard display campaigns, I want to be able to do this for all areas of the business especially in brand/native solutions, so I maximise the insights i get across a wider area of my business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the focus being on declared and first party data, as a media owner we are trying to collect more of oue own data as well as working with trustworthy second party data providers. Permtuive are aware of this market trend and have build a connectivity tool that allows data to flow much more smothly into the tool, but also importantly to be exported out it as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Olaf M.
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Team Lead Programmatic Data &amp; BI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

- 1st party driven DNA, independent of 3rd party vendors (no "legacy DMP")

- Lean and clean architecture, similar to a data analytics platform, focused on different event types, giving you a clear understanding of where your data comes from and what you can do with it (no marketing data gobbledygook)

- A well-designed and structured platform with good UX

- Transparent and complex cohort modelling, giving publishers complete control over segmentation. You need to be at least a little experienced in audience segmentation and spend some time in the initial setup at the beginning

- Real-time data processing at the edge (not just on paper), good performance in the ad tech stack (even in a GDPR environment)

- Event streaming to data warehouse (Google Cloud) gives your BI many more possibilities (e.g. for product development or real-time dashboard for editors).

- Supports a wide range of platforms and integrations (web and app, TV SDK), server side and ad technology frameworks (Prebid)

- Slim, customisable script ready to handle additional publisher parameters

- Integration with GAM works perfectly

- Excellent and proactive support team - monitor traffic for anomalies

- Feature development based on publisher input

- bringing in demand opportunities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

- Batch data import very basic when it comes to more advanced configurations (e.g. ingesting structured 1st party data)

- Could provide more publisher specific best practices (share smart segment how to's, etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

- becoming independant from third-party data vendors

- implementing first party data strategy

- Real-time (client side) segmentation

- Advanced contextual targeting and content classification (NLP)

- Full transparency and control over cohorts /segments

- Enrich the data platform with further insights for business intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marin K.
MK
Chief Monetization Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

Great and versatile DMP. It offers lots of integrations out of the box, intuitive dashboards, and basically endless opportunities for fine-tuning, experimenting, and improving both direct and open market campaigns.

Premium customer support and ease of implementation are among the best on the market, and you also benefit from the expertise of Permutive teams. It's great to have access to their know-how in building custom audiences and increasing eCPMs, especially if you are at the beginning of your first-party data utilization journey.

I especially like the premium and innovative feel when working with Permutive. The product is constantly improving with new features launching regularly, mostly based on customer feedback.

Permutive is a great tool that does exactly what it is supposed to do if you know how to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

Like all products working with huge amounts of data ocasionally you will experience bugs or parts of the system not working as advertised. But usually these errors are resolved quickly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Increasing the efficency of our direct and open market deals by using first party data to create custom audiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PM
Senior Director - Audience Analytics
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Permutive?

Permutive is a complete DMP with execptional features for audience development such as easy implementation, integration with ad platfoms, great insights across audience, campaigns and revenue. With game changing tools like prospecting it is helping publishers to move their advertising partners from open marketplace to PMP and increase eCPM for best results on monetizaiton. Teams at Permutive are great with customer support and marketing communicaitons.

Ease of use, great features, monetization at scale and continuos improvement in insights are a combination that works in Publisher favor. Plans feature help our sales team to go better prepared for conversations with clients and succeed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

There are so many positives about Permutive but to be fair, they can grow their clean room capabilities soon to match the industry standards and support publishers at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Customer segmentations at scale

cookieless scalability of audience

seamless integration with ad platforms

GTM and Insights tools for ad operations and sales

rich and timely insights

Identity resolution mapping

monetization with first party data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Online Media
AO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

Permutive constantly takes publisher feedback on how their product works, how it can work with other vendors, while keeping the publishers main goals in mind. Having a DMP is nice, having an integrated solution that is a DMP plus so much more is what Permutive is evolving into each year. It is an easy to use platform that many teams see value in besides the sales org. It helps us drive more informed decisions across all areas of our business. If we do not see a function we need or would like, the Support team is patient with trouble shooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

Transparency of information or sourcing in certain areas makes future work a bit more difficult. If the connection is not something, you can toggle after creation. Every team is built different though and our team might be only one of the few challenged by this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

They solved our data clean room issues by offering that as a service to connect to advertisers, while also bringing us campaigns we were not currently having transact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gabriel S.
GS
Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

Both the platform's user interface and user experience are very intuitive, making it easy for people from different backgrounds to create relevant audiences.

The response time from the support team is pretty quick, and the cohort creation process using first-party data is simple.

The development documentation is straightforward and helpful when implementing the SDKs and integrations.

As a recent addition, I have to say that the Connectivity feature enabling Permutive to connect directly with datasets from different cloud providers was one of their greatest achievements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

I feel like the Permutive team could evolve their ways of offline communication so that their clients aren't limited to communicating only via e-mail but could resort to other faster methods.

Also, I believe that the finantial model related to events could improve in the sense that charging should be focused on the volume of events, and not on the amount of schemas.

One other thing that can improve in a more foundational level is the terminology used throughout different features, which sometimes mix themselves together, making it easier for some concepts to get confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Permutive enables rich and relevant audiences with a platform that is data-driven, which benefits the comercial team by making the whole process much easier and faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BD
Manager, Programmatic Sales and Digital Strategy
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Permutive?

I've been using this platform for over four years across multiple companies, and I find that the DMP's interface and user experience are incredibly intuitive, making it easy to onboard new employees and quickly extract insights. Unlike many other platforms that make data retrieval a lengthy process, Permutive simplifies everything.

The customer success team is outstanding—quick to respond and highly knowledgeable. Shout out to Brendon and Gillian for their strategic guidance! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

When optimizing campaigns in Google Ad Manager performance by segment we only see the ID # and not the full segment name. Have to build a dashboard or use a VLOOKUP to identify the segment. Beta delivery insights tool should solve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows strategy and sales to build a narrative of who and what an audience does on our own and operated network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patricia A.
PA
Head of Commercial Product and Data
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

The different types of cohorts to be able to impact the user and the insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

There is nothing I don't like in particular. If I had to say something it would be the precision of the models, which are very low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Permutive is giving me a marketplace solution for selling data to our advertisers. The main benefit is the name Permutive has in the market and how highly valued it is, this helps us improve relationships with our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Newspapers
EN
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Permutive?

The performance and sophistication of the offering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

It is an expensive product, which may be prohibitive to some companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Permutive enables us to monetise 100% of our traffic via audience targeting (and related capabilities); this is very valuable to us as a business, since 1st party data is a key part of our market positioning and this solution allows us to leverage our higher-yielding ad products across our properties.

Permutive also has newer capabilities and products which we are now using - e.g. their Affinity and Contextual tools - which are particularly helpful for monetising inventory where consent for data processing is not present. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacqueline J.
JJ
Senior Manager, Ad Operations
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Permutive?

I really like Permutive's UI. It makes it very simple to create, select and/or compare data and audience cohorts. I also love the customer support we recieve from our team at Permutive. Alex, Claire and Brendan have been a dream to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Permutive?

I don't always love the index metrics. I find them tough to read at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Permutive solving and how is that benefiting you?

Permutive allows us to properly target our readers via 1st, 2nd and 3rd Party cohorts like we've never been able to. We have been shown creative ways to execute specific strategies to meet client needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.