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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWorkflow Automation Is About To Get Interesting
“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 O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Programmatic RTB has seen the lion’s share of venture capital funding and an enormous amount of innovation, yet RTB […]
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Don't Fix RTB
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Steve Goldberg, senior adviser at EmpiricalMedia. The industry has gone into full hand-wringing mode over fraudulent traffic, spurious clicks and low levels of viewable ads. That is good. After all, these are serious issues and […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingIf You Want To Measure Incrementality, Do It Right
“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 Sebastien Blanc, general manager, US, at Struq. Considering the number of channels where marketers can spend their budgets, understanding and proving a return on ad spend (ROAS) is vital. If […]
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable: What A Marriage Means For Advertisers
By Ryan Joe and Judith Aquino Media and cable conglomerate Comcast Corporation’s $45 billion deal to acquire its peer, Time Warner Cable, could be a boon for the advertising and marketing industry, combining Comcast’s superior digital platforms with Time Warner Cable’s audience reach across major metropolitan markets. “[This will provide] a level of scale and […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking
Why The Transactional RFP Business Is Dying
“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 O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Bionic Advertising Systems. Direct mail is an amazing thing. It costs roughly $750 CPM to put a glossy catalogue in the mail, […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingA Call For Sharper Bidding
“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 Andrew Casale, vice president of strategy at Casale Media Inc. It goes without saying that increased familiarity with programmatic buying has brought forth a lot of great executions among marketers. […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow Audience Extension Hurts Data's Integrity
“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 Jeff Sporn, SVP and GM for digital solutions at IXI, an Equifax division. Data is important for every online advertiser, but the rise in demand has led many to take shortcuts. […]
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Agencies Say MoPub Native Ads Will Be Big…When Twitter's Data Arrives
By Judith Aquino and Zach Rodgers Twitter unveiled a native ad offering for app publishers on Thursday, courtesy of its MoPub mobile exchange subsidiary. Read the blog post. While not new, the idea of “programmatic” native ads in mobile raises some interesting possibilities, agency execs told AdExchanger. Most of those possibilities hinge on Twitter’s willingness […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking3 Ways Google Can Grow In Search
“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 Jared Belsky, president at 360i. Google recently launched a display test on its coveted search results page. It was done quietly, with only a few test partners and little fanfare. […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThird-Party Data Works. It’s Just Not Priced Correctly
“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 Pearlstein, president and CEO of Cross Pixel Inc. The current pricing models for purchasing third-party data are far from optimal, and are actually holding back usage by advertisers. Most […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow Pandora, Kellogg’s, comScore And Comcast Compete In A Data-Driven 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 Lung Huang, vice president of digital advertising, global partnerships, at dunnhumby. I moderated a panel last month at D2 Cincinnati, a digital marketing conference focused on customer centricity. The panel, […]
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Aren’t We All Content Companies?
“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, CEO at AddThis. The formula used to be simple: In order to drive a transaction, you needed a combination of compelling creative and a clear message delivered […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingTwo Keys To Help Publishers Escape The Mobile Trap
“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 Alex Linde, vice president of monetization at The Weather Company and board member of the San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Group. In the race from TV dollars to so-called digital […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking
How Bid Retractions Can Defeat Ad Fraud — If Buyers and Sellers Cooperate
“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 Andrew Casale, vice president of strategy at Casale Media Inc. It probably isn’t immediately obvious to point to cocoa beans when we think about making the RTB environment more conducive […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhich Type Of Fraud Have You Been Suckered Into?
“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 Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. For the last few years, Mike Shields over at Adweek has done a great job of calling out bad actors in our space. He’s […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking5 Types Of Performance Marketing 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 Bodhi Short, SVP of Operations & Product Development at Integrate. It often takes only two words to pause a deal with brands and agencies: performance marketing. This effect is reinforced […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingProgrammatic Reserve: Let’s Solve The Right Problem
“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 by Andy Atherton SVP at AppNexus. It’s the first in a series on the emergence of programmatic reserve. There has been no shortage of attention paid to programmatic reserve of late. The […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingShiny New Toys (Or: Data Comes From The Darndest Things)
“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 Kyle Barber, SVP Global Performance Lead at McCann Worldgroup. The holidays are a wonderful time to catch up with family, unwind, eat a little too much. Yet all I’ve been hearing […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhy Viewable Impressions Won’t Matter
“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 Alex Calic, Chief Revenue Officer at The Media Trust. Based on the velocity of articles written on the topic last year, “viewable impressions” has displaced “ad verification” as the […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingBeauty of Digital GRPs Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
“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 Kevin Haley, Chief Scientist at Videology. Verification is good. Everyone wants to know that what they bought is what they got. With regard to online video, for years the […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingViewability: The Path to Less Digital Waste
“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 Jessica Sanfilippo, group media director at 360i. Below the fold, partial ad loads, and other related (and unwanted) occurrences on the island of misfit banners are the digital equivalents […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Banner Blindness Cure: How Fewer Ads Can Equal More Revenue
“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 Dave Zinman, CEO of Infolinks. The economics of online advertising are at best confusing and at worst completely backwards. We’ve got a zillion systems to target ads and auction […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhy Marketers Shouldn’t Compare Google ROI to Facebook ROI
“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 Brian Kaminski, President US of iProspect. In the battle for digital advertising dollars, Google is the established leader and Facebook is the scrappy newcomer. While Google offers an expansive […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow Social Is Breaking Old Agency Models
“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 Turner, General Manager of EMEA, Adaptly. The social ecosystem is waging change on traditional powerbases within the industry. Not only has power shifted back to the publisher (the […]
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Brand.net Acquired by Valassis; Viewability Extends To PubMatic; Gradient X Launches DSP
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand.net Sold Direct-mail, newspaper coupon marketing, and, yes, digital ad company Valassis announced the acquisition of online ad network Brand.net yesterday to enhance its “Valassis Audience Network, the components of an expansive network of online and offline data, state-of-the-art ad serving and targeting technology, […]
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Working Group Gathers On Tracking; Facebook CPM Model Vs CPC; Reviewing The UK Cookie
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Knights Of The DNT Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth says that ad holding companies among others have been reaching out to Microsoft to re-consider their decision to make their Do-Not-Track functionality default to “on” in the new version of IE. Learmonth adds, “High-level Publicis execs […]
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7 Billion Impressions; I 'Like' Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LocalResponse Hopes For Half-Full Social ad network LocalResponse is boasting that it’s serving more than 7 billion impressions per month. A pretty impressive number, though CEO and co-founder Nihal Mehta concedes, in an interview with Techcrunch’s Anthony Ha, that the company isn’t able to […]
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Former Google Admeld CEO Barrett Gets Purple; CPG Getting The Digital Difference
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Barrett To Yahoo!, Y! Ad Tech Plans Former Admeld CEO Michael Barrett is movin’ on from his post-acquisition Google role. All Things D’s Kara Swisher reports that Barrett will be joining Yahoo! as EVP and CRO and “will be in charge of ad revenue […]
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Acxiom's Big Database; Amazon's Dallaire On Ads; Testing To Differentiate
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Acxiom Database The New York Times’ Natasha Singer profiles the data treasure trove that Acxiom manages and continues to grow in a feature titled, “You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome.” She writes, “Digital marketers already customize pitches to users, based […]
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Commodity Convo; Retailer Risk; Funds Flying
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Commodity Convo Reuters Jennifer Saba analyzes new revenue data for newspaper publishers and sees ad exchanges as the culprit. She explains to the neophyte, “Advertising exchanges are electronic platforms that allow buyers to bid on and purchase advertising space at drastically reduced prices. Many […]