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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAd Tech Partnerships: Catalyst Or Crutch?
“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 Todd Van Fleet, managing partner at Van Fleet Capital Strategies. The crowded nature of the ad tech landscape is well known but what gets less attention is the fundamental question […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingIndustry Standards To Fight Fraud Might Be A Double-Edged Sword
“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 Salah Shami, senior director of product at Bidtellect. It’s not news that leaders in the digital advertising industry have expressed concern over the prevalent challenges with fraud, brand safety and […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking3 Hurdles Loom Before Advertisers Will Adopt Blockchain
“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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. As innovative as the invention of the automobile was on its own, cars didn’t become commonplace until the assembly line and nationwide […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe GDPR Butterfly Effect: What Comes After The Agency M&A Spree?
“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 Tobin Ireland, co-founder and CEO at Smartpipe. When it comes to adding agencies to their portfolios, the major media groups are certainly not afraid to spend big. There were 398 […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingForget Everything You Know About Your Customers
“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 Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. We marketers love to imagine our customers. We want to see them, understand them and get inside their heads. We make PowerPoint slides […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWill Amazon Buy A Consultancy Or Will Consultancies Learn From Amazon?
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. While WPP’s Martin Sorrell has sounded the alarm, the rest of the industry is just catching on: Amazon is racing ahead to own […]
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Today’s CMO Must Redefine Marketing And Identity
“Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. Today’s consumers are highly demanding. They expect curated movie recommendations from Netflix, one-click restaurant reservations from OpenTable, on-demand limousine service from Uber, limitless housing options from Airbnb and the world of commerce available 24/7 from Amazon […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAs The Duopoly Reigns, Others Can Still Take Market Share In 3 Key Areas
“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 Hannu Verkasalo, founder and CEO at Verto Analytics. As tech behemoths dominate search, enterprise services, social networking and mobile, Facebook and Google run a duopoly with no signs of stopping. […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingIs Attribution The Solution To Ad Fraud?
“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 Jim Spaeth, partner at Sequent Partners. I’ve heard anecdotally that somewhere between 50% and 70% of digital advertising spend is wasted, completely ineffectual. Fraudulent impressions could account for 30% to […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingBreaking Down Data's Walled Gardens Starts With Companies Becoming 'Allies'
“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 Elmar Mamedov, vice president of engineering and analytics at Thinknear. With the walled gardens of Google and Facebook attracting up to 85% of the new advertising dollars entering the digital space, […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAuction Mechanics: A Buyer’s Perspective
“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 Alexandre Cotarmanac’h, senior director of publisher products at Criteo. There is a fundamental dynamic in any price negotiation: Both parties are trying to find out each other’s bottom line. This haggling […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingROI-Based Planning: The Antidote To Zero-Based Budgeting
“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, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Zero-based budgeting is the new buzzword in our industry. It even comes with a snazzy acronym: ZBB. Last month, Verizon said that it […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Problem With Metrics
“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 Zane McIntyre, co-founder and CEO at Commission Factory. Advertisers know that measuring success based on reach doesn’t lead to conversions. Yet impressions, clicks, social shares, quality scores and time on […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingData Quality: In Demand But Hard To Define
“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 Jason Downie, senior vice president and general manager of data solutions at Lotame. Marketers can have all the data they could ever want, but if that data is of low […]
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Google's Ad Blocking Strategy; Snap's Ties That Bind
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google’s Ad Blocking Rationale Google Ads and Commerce SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy clarified the tech giant’s rationale for baking an ad blocker into its Chrome browser. In short: Google wants to ensure there’s no need for third-party ad blockers in mobile. “It’s only technology that’s […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingLemon Markets And Marketplace Crashes: Lessons For Programmatic
“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 Nico Neumann, assistant professor at Melbourne Business School. Programmatic has for years faced a lot of heat for its lack of transparency and measurement, brand-safety and fraud issues. Over the […]
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The Many Shades Of In-Housing
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. Belinda will present “EA’s Programmatic Arts” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26. Of all the trends happening in programmatic, “in-housing” seems to […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow Would You Like Your Data: Automatic Or Manual?
“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 Jeremy Hlavacek, head of global automated monetization at IBM Watson Advertising. We have all met people who love driving a manual stick-shift car. They will tell you how much they […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingMarketers Must Redefine ‘Premium’ In Mobile
“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 Dean Vegliante, president at Netmining. With smartphones “positioned to become the default device for internet access” for many Americans, according to eMarketer, marketers know that they must have a mobile component. But […]
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Provisioning: Data’s New Paradigm
“Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. The promise of “data is the new oil” has slowly come to fruition over the last five years. Connected devices are producing data at a Moore’s-law-like rate, and companies are building the artificial intelligence systems to […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking
Which Telco Will Be The First To Challenge Facebook And Google?
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. The telcos are uniquely equipped for the battle of the people-based marketing crown. They have the best mobile data, which is crucial for […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingJust Give Me The 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 Steve Marosi, director, client advisory, at 84.51°. Why is it that many analysts – who have so much data, yet so little time – turn up their noses at reporting […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Evolving Data Landscape: Veracity, Convergence And Anonymity
“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 Ramsey McGrory, chief revenue officer at Mediaocean. In February 2013, I developed a simple data framework to demystify the data landscape and explain why technology and media companies were building […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Marketing Clouds Are Growing Apart
“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, research vice president at Gartner. We’ve looked at marketing clouds from both sides now, up and down – and still, somehow, it’s their illusions that we recall. Do […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingBusiness Model Transparency Shouldn’t Be A Unique Selling Point
“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 Sebastiaan Moesman, CEO at Improve Digital. A lot has happened in the last year, and the programmatic industry is at a turning point: It must educate, control, check and adapt, […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingNever Mind GDPR, Here Comes Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Protection
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. Apple’s soon-to-be released iOS 11 is generating some fairly significant anxiety in ad tech circles due to how Apple’s Safari browser will treat […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingData Feeds Can Bridge The Digital Divide
“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 Pete Kluge, group manager, product marketing, at Adobe Advertising Cloud. Digital marketers live in a bubble. All too often, we fixate on the newest shiny toy or fall down the […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderIdentifying The True Value Of Identity
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Drew Bradstock, senior vice president of product at Index Exchange. People-based marketing, in which publisher and advertiser first-party data is employed to target users across devices, is hotly debated as the new standard for […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingLow-Cost Data No Longer Means Cheap
“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 Kim Brown, founder and CEO at Centrally Human. We all know data is an integral ingredient in today’s digital marketing and performance-based world. Yet with so many data options and […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingTruth Vs. Religion: What Kind Of Data Company Are You?
“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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. Startup data companies have to make a very important choice: What kind of company will they be? I see four basic types of data companies, […]