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  • The Transparency Hangover

    “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.  Spurred by the groundbreaking ANA K2 report, marketers spent the latter half of 2016 and much of 2017 talking about transparency. We went from pushing […]

  • How Can Brands ‘Converge’ Ad Tech And Mar Tech?

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Tony Ralph, director of data and marketing technology at Intuit QuickBooks. With at least one notable exception, nearly all researchers predict the inevitable convergence of the mar tech and ad tech ecosystems. Predictions aside, as a […]

  • What’s New For 2018? Nothing

    “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.  I realize I’m late to the game with the year-ahead predictions, but this year the annual ad tech soothsaying has hit a nerve. The slow […]

  • Forget Viewability: Your Ads Aren’t Serving

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Bennett Rosenblatt, rider display marketing lead at Uber. At Uber, our programmatic strategy prioritizes transparency and trust above all. We run campaigns in an enterprise self-service demand-side platform (DSP) and leverage a transparent ad server to […]

  • The Problem With The Long Tail

    “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. The promise of programmatic is oft-repeated as “right person, right place, right time.” And while this is likely the goal of all advertising, we typically […]

  • The Complexity Ruse

    “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. I find it interesting to hear people complain about programmatic being too complicated. They say that they are essentially helpless to figure out how to […]

  • 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 […]

  • Data For Data’s Sake

    “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 October 25-26.    Having been in the biddable/programmatic space for more than 10 […]

  • A Call For Brands: Time To Get into The Weeds On Media

    “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 October 25-26.    I’ve spent a lot of time talking to brands that […]

  • Going In-House: The Talent Challenge

    “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. As anyone who is hiring media buyers knows, there is a talent shortage in the industry. Brands trying to build in-house teams are often faced […]

  • Solving The ‘Law Of Ad Blocking’

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is by Tony Ralph, director of advertising technology at Netflix. Every time I open a mobile web browser I’m reminded of Wirth’s law. Wirth’s law postulates that software becomes slower more quickly than hardware grows faster. Mobile hardware advances […]

  • With Its Eye On Consumers, Health Care Attempts A Shift From Volume To Value

    “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 Mayur Gupta, senior vice president and head of digital at Healthgrades.   I used to hear that health care was behind other industries when it comes to digital technology adoption […]

  • Publishers: Stop Refusing Our Money

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view.  Today’s column is by Mike Zeman, director of global programmatic marketing at Netflix. Imagine you’ve walked into a convenience store to buy some milk. The cashier says, “That’ll be $5.” You hand him a $5 bill, only to be told, “I’m […]

  • The Founding Principles Of An Omnichannel Strategy

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark. Much of what has been written about omnichannel experiences reflects two perspectives. The first: Every consumer expects it and every brand wants to deliver it. […]

  • Nestlé’s Programmatic Branding Campaign Brews Strong Results

    Nestlé found its sweet spot through a recently executed branding campaign for its Nescafé Dolce Gusto brand. For its first-ever wholly programmatic ad campaign, the European java vendor tapped UK-based online marketing firm Jellyfish to drive sales of its coffee machines. The goal was to maximize the efficiency of its display advertising, without compromising on […]

  • To Build Or Buy An In-House Programmatic Stack? Do Both

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is by Tony Ralph, director of advertising technology at Netflix. Over the last year, I’ve spoken with at least a dozen representatives from brands both large and small that are looking for advice on first steps as they consider […]

  • Procter & Gamble CMO Pritchard: Programmatic Delivers Business Lift

    Programmatic ad buying is an inexorable and positive progression for the marketing industry, according to Global Marketing Officer Marc Pritchard of Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest advertiser. “[Programmatic] is inevitable, and we’re definitely interested,” Pritchard told AdExchanger on Thursday. “It enables you to more precisely target, and do it at a very valuable price, and […]

  • How Do We Put Humans At The Center Of The Marketing Tech Ecosystem?

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark. These are interesting times in the growth of marketing technologies, which are consolidating and diversifying simultaneously. While the consolidation is slow, it is being triggered […]

  • Why You Should Ditch The ‘Digital Center Of Excellence’

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing, technology and operations at Kimberly-Clark. In recent years an increasing number of marketing organizations have established “Digital Center of Excellence” teams. They are often called the DCOE or COE, and are […]

  • The Omni-Channel Paradox

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing, technology and operations at Kimberly-Clark. Brands have as much of a chance of driving frictionless omnichannel consumer experiences as a Formula One race car driver trying to win a race […]

  • It's Time To Fix Programmatic Creative

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view.  Today’s column is by Mike Zeman, director of North American digital marketing at Netflix. Numerous studies have outlined the importance of impactful creative in successful advertising campaigns. Many have shown that creative variables, such as messaging, formats and aesthetics, account for […]

  • So You Want To Build An In-House Trading Desk?

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view.  Today’s column is by Mike Zeman, director of North American digital marketing at Netflix. It comes as a surprise to most publishers, ad-tech firms and other marketers I speak to that Netflix operates its own internal programmatic trading desk. In other […]

  • 4 Ways To Win the Brand Marketing Wars With Programmatic Buying

    “Brand Aware” is a column on the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. It is written by Bob Arnold, director of digital and social media at Kellogg Company. This Brand Aware column aspires to narrow the knowledge and understanding gap between advertisers and ad-tech companies to ultimately grow the ad-tech space. Today’s […]

  • Note To Publishers: Not All Of Your Inventory Is ‘Premium’

    “Brand Aware” is a column on the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. It is written by Bob Arnold, Director of Digital and Social Media at Kellogg Company. One of my main responsibilities for Kellogg is to steward all of its digital media spend in North America, so a lot of media […]

  • Three Pre-Reqs to Capture the Hearts, Minds And Budgets Of Brand Managers

    At my company, we’ve been active in the programmatic buying space for brand marketing and we’ve seen some very positive business results to date.  I truly believe it’s the future of all media buying (not just digital, but I’ll save that discussion for another day). Yet, we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg of […]

  • How Publishers Can Stand Out in the Programmatic Arena

    Welcome to “Brand Aware,” a column from the marketer’s point-of-view on the data-driven, digital ad ecosystem and written by Bob Arnold, Associate Director of Global Digital Strategy at Kellogg Company. I’ve never worked in the publishing industry. I’ve been on the marketer side of the equation for my entire career, so I’ll be the first […]

  • Kellogg's Bob Arnold Starts 'Brand Aware' Column

    Welcome to “Brand Aware.” I’m Bob Arnold, Associate Director of Global Digital Strategy at Kellogg Company, and I have the privilege of penning this column. I’ve been in the digital marketing space for more than 12 years – 10 years at Procter & Gamble and two years at Kellogg. Having grown up in the “branding” […]

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