Kochava Launches OnXCHNG Partnership Program For First Blockchain-Based Digital Advertising Platform

SANDPOINT, Idaho, Dec. 13, 2017 /CNW/ -- Kochava, the leading digital advertising attribution and marketing analytics platform, today launched OnXCHNG, the partnership program for the industry's open source blockchain framework for the digital advertising ecosystem, XCHNG. To kick off the program, Kochava announced nine co-founding OnXCHNG Partners who will be actively taking part in the project: AerServ, AppLift, Appodeal, Chartboost, DCMN, Kiip, PubNative, Parrable, and Priori Data.

OnXCHNG Partners will have early access to the XCHNG codebase and architecture. Partners will have the opportunity to be involved in the roadmap direction for XCHNG and be the first to bring their inventory to XCHNG or provide services to the XCHNG ecosystem. Announced in October, the XCHNG blockchain-based system of record offers a digitized and tokenized insertion order (IO, or a contract to buy advertisements) with the supporting immutable infrastructure to make the entire transaction process between buyers and sellers more efficient and transparent. Token incentives will be provided to all OnXCHNG Partners for participating in and contributing to this platform.

Kochava CEO, Charles Manning, said: "The digital advertising industry is ready for a better way forward, as evidenced by the strong response we've had to our invitation to involvement in this open blockchain project. Buyers and sellers of media including AerServ, AppLift, Appodeal, Chartboost, DCMN, Kiip, and PubNative, are respected industry-leading companies who are the first of many to join forces with Kochava as early OnXCHNG Partners. We welcome their involvement and look forward to continuing to build this community of experts as we bring efficiency, security and standardization to the digital advertising ecosystem."

Building a Holistic Blockchain for the Ecosystem
As a founding member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB)'s Blockchain Tech Lab, the XCHNG team has designed the framework to be an open industry standard, built with advertising in mind. It brings together demand, supply, measurement, ratings, payment and data enrichment into a unified blockchain framework with peer-to-peer and consensus support for the large transaction volumes represented in advertising.

Ad buyers (entities who buy advertising for their websites, apps, products or services) buy media to promote their brands and drive conversions to specified actions. Ad publishers, supply-side exchanges and ad networks (entities who have websites or apps for the display of advertisements to their audiences or aggregate the inventory of publishers) provide ad space to buyers. Unfortunately, today's complex, centralized digital advertising ecosystem is fraught with ad fraud, brand safety issues and a lack of transparency for both sides of the equation. Providing a common, open framework for all actors enables efficiency and maximizes the power of the ad spend. On XCHNG, publishers can make their inventory available to advertisers in a direct, decentralized way, where inventory can be third-party verified and its yield can be maximized. Publishers can then track the lifecycle of that inventory to better understand and serve their advertisers.

"DCMN has always prioritized providing the best ROI to digital brands using growth solutions based on technology and data. All aspects of our service offerings are measurable and completely transparent," said Andreas Dengler, CEO and Co-founder of global marketing solutions group DCMN. "We are very excited to be a strategic OnXCHNG partner with Kochava and believe XCHNG can bring transparency, efficiency and trust to the current digital media buying ecosystem, which needs a radical solution to fix the major issues the industry is now facing. We look forward to working together to shape the most ambitious blockchain application in ad tech today."

"Kiip takes pride in delivering a premium and secure advertising experience to our brand partners. As such, Kiip is thrilled to be working with a proven industry trailblazer like Kochava on the OnXCHNG partner program that integrates these values into its foundation. There is no doubt that blockchain will play a significant role in shaping the future of digital advertising, especially when it comes to transparency, efficiency, and security. We're looking forward to seeing this partnership make the world of digital advertising better and stronger, while also providing an exceptional experience for our brand partners," said Brian Wong, Co-Founder & CEO, Kiip.

In addition to buyers and sellers of media, XCHNG has been architected to integrate four first-party actor types who support the lifecycle of the IO. These include measurement, ratings, payments and data enrichment providers. The OnXCHNG program will allow these advertising ecosystem vendors to build tools and capabilities that support seamless and transparent ad buying transactions.

Workflow Support Through Vendor Participation
While the value of end-to-end measurement is obvious, XCHNG is unique in having a means for third-party ratings providers to support global ratings of platform participants to help buyers and sellers understand their counterparty's risk and reputation. Having ratings providers on XCHNG will drive transparency and self-governance on top of an immutable ledger of participants.

Priori Data CEO Patrick Kane said: "We are very proud to be involved as a ratings provider and thus as a key component of XCHNG. Transparency has always been the core value of our business, and we truly believe in XCHNG's potential to bring much needed transparency to the industry at-large. Kochava has been a longtime partner of ours, and given their scale, vision, and proven execution, they are an ideal actor to effectuate such an important change. We are proud to be part of XCHNG and are excited about the opportunities this will create for our clients and partners."

The XCHNG system also delivers a built-in framework for payment via the XCHNG Token (XT). XCHNG Tokens will be used to buy and sell media or pay for services surrounding media transactions. Because cryptocurrencies like XT are relatively new and brands or agencies need to do business via fiat currency, XCHNG has been built to enable market-driven payment providers who can facilitate escrow, fiat conversion, or payment depending on the needs of the participants in an IO.

Building the XCHNG framework on blockchain improves and enhances the digital ad buying experience for all players in the ecosystem, offering greater access to inventory for buyers and greater yield for publishers, both large and small. XCHNG uses an open, global distributed ledger facilitating end-to-end workflow. Through the use of a crypto-verified distributed ledger, all parties will be able to participate in the workflow of the insertion order together—from discovery and negotiation to execution, verification, and payment. XCHNG will also benefit from access to the Kochava Collective, the largest global independent data marketplace. The digitization and tokenization of IOs will thereby treat digital ads as a true asset class. The XCHNG Token will be released in a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens) event in early 2018.

Since its inception in 2011, Kochava has aimed to better understand the feedback loop between user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value throughout the digital ecosystem. Their clientele includes the world's top advertisers and Fortune 100 companies, which depend on Kochava to measure over $6 billion in ad spend annually. Through their industry-leading technology, Kochava sheds light on the effectiveness of ad spend on all connected devices and is uniquely positioned to deliver this blockchain solution to the industry.

For more information about XCHNG visit https://www.xchng.io/.

Kochava CEO Charles Manning is available for interview

About XCHNG
XCHNG is an open and unified blockchain-based framework for the digital advertising ecosystem. Designed and deployed by Kochava, the XCHNG framework is centered around a common Ricardian Smart Contract with an open blockchain implementation to persist transactional history and provide supporting utilities required for maximizing efficiency through the lifecycle of the IO. XCHNG enables the related targeting and activation of audiences, bolsters ad-spend efficiency and transparency, establishes a next-generation system of record for all participants, and provides the opportunity to tokenize the framework to treat digital as a true asset class, standardizing the valuation of ads. For more information visit https://xchng.io/.

About Kochava
Kochava offers a unique, holistic and unbiased analytics platform to plan, target, measure and optimize media spend. The Kochava platform for mobile and connected devices combines potent features and global coverage with thousands of network and publisher integrations, allowing advertisers to target audiences and measure campaign performance with precision. Real-time customizable visualizations give users fluid access to a full spectrum of data points, providing robust segmentation capabilities and real-time actionability. Yielding the most powerful tools in the ecosystem, Kochava is chosen by brands across industry verticals to measure the largest and most sophisticated ad campaigns. For more information visit https://www.kochava.com/.

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