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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingMany Ad Tech Companies Have At Least One Glass Wall
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. On the heels of “Cachegate,” stones are being thrown at one ad tech company for what appears to be inappropriate behavior. I will […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingMind The Gap: Addressing The Digital Brand Deficit
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Kohl, president and CEO at TrustX. News flash: The shiny new object is no longer shiny – or new. Programmatic advertising – the industry’s perpetually new thing – is […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAd Tech Needs A Shared ID Solution ASAP
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Martin Kihn, an independent analyst. Marketers of the world, unite your identity graphs! You have nothing to lose but your fear. As the triopoly marches on, the rest of us […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAdding Salt To Soup: Strategically Managing Halo Effects
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Vijoy Gopalakrishnan, senior vice president and principal at the IRI Media Center of Excellence. While advertisers should always measure the sales lift of the products they advertise, sometimes they may […]
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Political Ad Targeting Could Take A Hit In This New Era Of Data Privacy
“AdExchanger Politics” is a recurring feature that tracks developments in politics and digital advertising. Today’s column is written by Chris Nolan, founder at Spot-On. Regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and California’s Consumer Privacy Act have focused a spotlight on consumer data privacy. But there’s another conversation that needs to take place […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingData Openness Can Become The Currency Of A Post-Duopoly World
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by John Nardone, CEO at Flashtalking. The cracks are beginning to show on the duopoly’s stronghold. With the finalization of AT&T’s acquisition of AppNexus, we can envision a world in which […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAchieving Supply Chain Transparency, Avoiding Fraud And Dissecting The Working Media Fallacy
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Lewis Rothkopf, general manager of media and growth channels at MediaMath. The legacy media supply chain is a mess, and marketers are fed up with it. Years of nontransparent practices […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingMonoculture: The Biggest Threat To Digital Advertising
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an independent audience strategy consultant. When I worked at Yahoo during the golden years, I met many extremely talented and knowledgeable people. In 2011, one of my […]
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Digital Advertising Upends Formula For How Political Parties Pick Winners And Losers
“AdExchanger Politics” is a recurring feature that tracks developments in politics and digital advertising. Today’s column is written by Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. Political parties and their leadership pick winners and losers – when they legislate and, especially, in how they allocate resources to candidates running for office. The idea of picking winners and […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingDiverse Skill Sets Required When Building Internal Research And Analytics Teams
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Chuck Hemann, managing director and head of digital analytics at W20 Group. Today marketers are expanding their analytics budgets exponentially with the desire to determine return on investment (ROI). A […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingOracle, Salesforce, Adobe, TTD, Oath, Indie SSPs, Roku And LiveRamp Must Come Together
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. For media buyers today, ad tech platforms can be bucketed into two categories: the must-haves and nice-to-haves. For many, Google, Facebook and Amazon […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingShould Ad Tech Panic Over The California Privacy Protection Act Now Or Later?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. When the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was passed and enacted, US ad […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingEfficiency And Emotion: Finding The Balance In The Digital Advertising Equation
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jane Ostler, global head of media, insights division, at Kantar Millward Brown. We live in a world that increasingly lacks nuance: Everything’s now an either/or. Politics has polarized, and so […]
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Building A Robust View Of Customers’ Marketing And Purchase History
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Jake Bradbury, director of data science and marketing analytics at Nordstrom. In the May installment of Brand Aware, Amy Loesch did an excellent job of describing the reasons for and potential challenges of using multi-touch attribution […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingShortcuts Won’t Save Anyone From GDPR
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Travis Ruff, chief information security officer at Amperity. I am here to address the elephant in the in room: Companies need to stop trying to find ways around the General […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingA Smarter Approach For Your DMP
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Shiva Vannavada, chief technology officer at iCrossing. Operationalizing your data management platform (DMP) is not unlike raising a child. Both processes take time and patience. They each require consistent communication among […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingCustomer Data Platforms: Before You Buy
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Quinn, founder at Refined Path. Customer data platforms (CDPs) have been a hot mar tech category, but they’re often misunderstood. Some of this comes from competing technologies that claim […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThere Are No Organic App Downloads
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Maor Sadra, managing director and chief revenue officer at AppLift. Organic downloads rarely happen. With more than 2 million unique apps in Apple’s App Store and 3.8 million in Google’s […]
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Performance Marketing Should Play A Larger Role in Building Brand Creative
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Marissa Tarleton, chief marketing officer at RetailMeNot. Building strong brands is a priority for any company. In the past it was viewed as its own goal, separate from performance marketing. The two are often talked about […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWith The Right Standards In Place, Data Clean Rooms Could Be The Best New Thing For Marketers
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Smith, senior director of business development and partnerships at Neustar. Shortly before the General Data Protection Regulation went into effect in May, Google announced plans to sunset a service […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingGDPR Compliance: Why Some Companies Are Still Missing The Mark
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adrian Newby, chief technology officer at Crownpeak. After months of planning, budgeting and restructuring ahead of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it seems many organizations are still struggling to […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingStop The Programmatic Blame Game
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tim Webster, co-founder and chief strategy officer at The Exchange Lab. Advertising automation promises to give the advertising industry speed, efficiency and opportunities for precise audience targeting and messaging on […]
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The Top 10 Programmatic Publishers Of 2018
By Sarah Sluis, Ryan Joe, Allison Schiff, Alison Weissbrot and Rae Paoletta Programmatic is expanding, becoming a glossier way to transact and add value to both the buy and sell sides. “We are moving rapidly into a programmatic-first world,” said Sal Candela, president of enterprise partnerships at Omnicom. “There is a surge of quality inventory […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingFrom Drowning In Data To Dying of Thirst: A Data Drought Is Coming For Marketers
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Victor Wong, CEO at Thunder Experience Cloud. After investing in big data for the last few years, enterprises found themselves drowning in so much data that they didn’t know what […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingPeople-Based Marketing’s Biggest Problem: The Retargeting Conspiracy
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Andreas Reiffen, founder and CEO at Crealytics. If there’s one indisputable truth about digital media, it is that digital is measurable. While that’s bona fide, debate still rages around what’s […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingScaling To Better Measurement Requires A Stepwise Approach
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by George W. Ivie, CEO and executive director at the Media Rating Council. Many people in our business like to quote John Wanamaker about the inability to determine which 50% of […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhat Happens When Telcos Stop Sharing their Location Data?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Peter Lenz, senior geospatial analyst at Dstillery. In late June, Verizon made the somewhat controversial decision to stop selling location data to third-party brokers. AT&T and Sprint quickly followed, making […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingCampaign Effectiveness Comes Down To Great Ads, Not Viewability
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Paul Lowrey, head of marketing and strategy at TI Media. In the continual race to maximize viewability, brands and agencies may have forgotten one vital element: engagement. You might have […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhat Happens When Telcos Stop Sharing their Location Data?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Peter Lenz, senior geospatial analyst at Dstillery. In late June, Verizon made the somewhat controversial decision to stop selling location data to third-party brokers. AT&T and Sprint quickly followed, making […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingCan Transparent Technology Evolve Faster Than Tech Used For Ill-Gotten Gains?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jerry Jones, chief ethics and legal officer and executive vice president at Acxiom. When it comes to safeguarding our democracy, much has already been said about the need for more […]