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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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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