Kochava has acquired Machine Advertising.
Kochava has acquired Machine Advertising.
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Kochava acquires Machine Advertising to improve post-IDFA app marketing

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kochava, a real-time data solutions company for omni-channel attribution and measurement, has acquired Machine Advertising.

London-based Machine Advertising has developed app marketing technology that still works in the post-IDFA world. Apple retired the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) in 2021 to emphasize user privacy over targeted ads. When it did that, it made it harder for adtech companies to figure out how effective a particular marketing campaign was because it couldn’t rely on data about individual users anymore.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.