The NextRoll Blog

My name is José Hernandez, Senior Software Engineer at NextRoll. I’d like to share a deeply personal journey that underscores the incredible support I've received from my team and the broader NextRoll community.I joined NextRoll in 2017, while my partner was 8 months pregnant with our first...

In digital advertising, machine learning (ML) is indispensable for delivering optimal performance to advertisers and serving relevant ads to users. It enables precise audience targeting, budget optimization, and goal achievement. In today's competitive digital environment, ML-driven...

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a marketing strategy in which web advertising is targeted at specific employees of specific companies. For instance, consider a retail software company that is seeking to expand into the European market. They may create an ad campaign that specifically targets...

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital advertising, staying ahead of the curve is essential for success. As the industry shifts towards a privacy-first approach with the imminent departure of third-party cookies, companies must adapt and innovate to continue delivering effective advertising...

A cloud-based “Trusted Execution Environment” (TEE) is a set of infrastructure maintained by one organization that securely and opaquely runs code developed by a different organization. The organization hosting the TEE can monitor the environment and invoke the code, but cannot change it, and in...

For several years, privacy has been a key topic of discussion in the world of adtech. This increased dramatically in the past 12 months, in line with Google’s intention to deprecate third party cookies from its Chrome browser later this year. Despite Google’s recent delay of this timeline to...

Since the start of Google’s 1% deprecation of third-party cookies, the ad tech industry has released a slough of strongly-worded opinions on what the Privacy Sandbox solutions could hold for the future of digital advertising. For folks building the Privacy Sandbox, the future is bright; they have...

The Privacy Sandbox is a new set of features in Chrome that allows advertisers to reach potential customers and publishers to monetize their content while preserving user privacy. One of the new features is the Topics API which enables advertisers to target users based on their interests. This...

In the world of adtech, attribution involves giving an ad credit for driving a specific action, such as a conversion.  However, even when these events can be correlated with a high degree of certainty, questions about how to interpret these results inevitably arise. When several ads are viewed,...

Designing and building a groundbreaking system from scratch is always exciting and a little scary. As a team, engineers face many decisions that are meant to shape the challenges and opportunities that current and future contributors will handle as well. Choosing a language is one of those...