19: Data Quality vs. Data Scale w/ Ryan Rolf

The Corporate Data Show: Outbound Marketing | Email Lists | Sales Leads | Data Strategy

On this episode of the Corporate Data Show, Ryan Rolf, Vice President of Data Sales at Lotame, explains the ups and downs of data brokering. Lotame is the only independent data management platform in the market today, specializing in the technology to help clients—particularly publishing clients—manage their data.

Aggregating data from many sources in true data broker fashion, Rolf supplies data to advertisers to field their targeting, all the while hosting it online for easy access. In his six years at Lotame, Rolf has seen the company become one of the largest global online data exchanges.

Clients with diverse use cases are coming to him to build stuff, so he knows the importance of data quality. “When you talk data quality,” Rolf said, “quality issues are in both sides of the world—third party data and first party data.”