March 31st, 2025
Category: Thought Piece
View from the Top: Conversation with Kelly Waldher, CMO of Zendesk
Insider Strategies for Staying Ahead in a Dynamic Marketing Landscape
Welcome to View from the Top—a series where I sit down with CMOs and marketing leaders to explore the future of our industry. Marketing has always moved fast, but with the acceleration of AI, evolving privacy expectations, and shifting consumer behaviors, we’re in a moment of unprecedented...
March 18th, 2025
Category: Thought Piece
Leading with Clarity: How NextRoll Aligns Teams for Maximum Impact
A Q&A with NextRoll’s Chief People Officer Amy LeBold
The start of the year is full of ambition and the best intentions, but as the first quarter of the year comes to a close, we should ask ourselves: Are we executing on what we set out to do?At NextRoll, we know that setting company-wide goals is just the beginning. Aligning our teams around those...
March 17th, 2025
Category: Customer Corner
From Feedback to Impact: How NextRoll Puts the 'Love' in Customer Love Week
At NextRoll, we believe that small changes create big impact—especially when it comes to customer experience. Every feature request, every piece of feedback, and every small frustration voiced by our users matters. That’s why we dedicate time and resources to Customer Love Week (CLW), a sprint...
January 30th, 2025
Category: Product
Privacy, Progress, and the Open Web: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
We at NextRoll have been intensely privacy-focused for some time now, working on new ways to mathematically and technologically protect users’ data while at the same time helping advertisers spend their marketing budgets effectively and, on top of that, supporting publishers to keep the Web open....
December 19th, 2024
Category: Thought Piece
Is Your Sales Enablement Program Setting You Up for Success? Here’s What to Look For
Starting a new sales job can be thrilling—but let’s face it, it can also feel like drinking from a firehose. New product? New industry? New team? Whew! The training and support you receive during onboarding (and beyond!) can make all the difference between thriving and just barely surviving.At...
August 21st, 2024
Category: Thought Piece
The Formula for a Strong Sales Pipeline
Insights from NextRoll’s VP of Revenue
In the second segment of NextRoll’s Unstoppable Growth career advice series, we learn actionable tips for building a strong sales pipeline. NextRoll’s VP of Revenue, Mark Haas, shares his recipe for success that includes three elements: Organization, Prioritization, and Personalization....
July 22nd, 2024
Category: Thought Piece
Privacy Sandbox and User Choice
A Reaction to Google’s Updated Approach to Cookie Deprecation
This morning, Google published a blog post, “A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web.” I strongly recommend giving it a read, but as a quick summary, Google is proposing to change their plans from full-on third-party cookie deprecation to offering users a choice in Chrome on how the browser...
July 8th, 2024
Category: Product
Results and Recommendations from Our Privacy Sandbox Testing
As a long-standing participant in the Privacy Sandbox initiative, NextRoll believes that Google’s proposed APIs can be a privacy-preserving alternative to third-party cookies (3PCs). Recently, we concluded our eight-week test of the Privacy Sandbox in order to gauge the viability of its Protected...
June 17th, 2024
Category: Thought Piece
Thriving Together: My Journey Through Brain Injury with NextRoll's Support
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...
June 13th, 2024
Category: Product
How NextRoll is Using Machine Learning to Adapt to the Protected Audience API
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...