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  • Why Email Will – And Won’t – Be The Online Ad Industry’s Next Main Identifier

    “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 Ron Jacobson, CEO and co-founder at Rockerbox. Every couple of years, the foundations of online advertising are completely ripped apart. This time, it’s the impending death of third-party cookies and […]

  • Why Browsers Shouldn’t Be The Gatekeepers Of The Internet

    “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 Diarmuid Gill, CTO at Criteo. Since web browsers were released over 25 years ago, they have amassed a significant amount of power. They’re sources of both supply and demand, all while […]

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    Identity Needs A Solution Capable Of Actually Winning

    “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. In the cola wars, it was Coke vs. Pepsi. In the battle of the coasts, it’s New York vs. Los Angeles. Rap? Tupac vs. […]

  • The New Frontier For Personalized, Data-Driven Marketing Success

    “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 Laura Desmond, founder and CEO at Eagle Vista Partners. The current COVID-19 crisis has been an unprecedented game-changer for marketers. The last decade was driven by business and digital transformation, from […]

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    Building A Better Content Machine: The Assembly Line

    “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 Bibhakar Pandey, vice president of customer experience and marketing services at Capgemini. A content assembly line is exactly what it sounds like: a series of progressive steps to create and […]

  • Algorithmically Incorrect: The Lies Big Tech Tells Advertisers

    “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 Adam Heimlich, CEO at Chalice Custom Algorithms If you hire a street team to give out coupons and pay them on coupons redeemed, you’d better make sure they’re not handing them […]

  • How The Death Of Digital IDs Will Reshape The Marketing Mix

    “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 Ari Buchalter, CEO at Intersection. The impending demise of the cookie, IDFA, and likely all 1-to-1 identifiers available to third parties will rewrite the rules across the entire media mix. Our […]

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    Want To Use Carrier Data? 4 Things You Must Know To Maximize Performance

    “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 Chap, founder of Tech Recipes. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple may have some of the best data on the market, but they lack the ability to provide the most […]

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    Calling BS In Ad Tech

    “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 Shiv Gupta, founder at U of Digital. Ad tech is full of BS. Why is that? Because when companies create confusion about their products, to make themselves sound more advanced than […]

  • Paul Cimino

    Balancing The 3 S’s (Scale, Signal And Safety) In A New 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 Paul Cimino, president at Cimino Collaborative Consulting. Safety and privacy have become driving forces in advertising. New laws, ad blocking and OS/browser changes have turned the industry upside down. I […]

  • The Great CDP Shakeout (Is Not Forthcoming)

    “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 Matthew Greitzer, co-founder and CEO at Actable. There are a lot of customer data platforms in the market. And I mean a lot – my team tracks this closely and […]

  • Huge Issue On The November 2020 Ballot – No, Not That One. CCPA 2.0!

    “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. There’s an election this November, and there will be a huge issue on the […]

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    An Open Letter To Apple: Thank You For Throwing The Industry In Flux

    “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, co-founder and CEO at Incrmntal. Dear Apple, During the last WWDC conference you threw a bomb and put the in-app performance marketing world in flux by making the […]

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    Preparing For Life Without Mid-Roll

    “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 Nadav Dray, VP Operations at AnyClip. As of Aug. 5, Google’s Chrome browser will begin blocking traffic from sites that are not compliant with the latest standards from the Coalition […]

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    Building A Better Content Machine: The Scorecard

    “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 Bibhakar Pandey, vice president of customer experience and marketing services at Capgemini. It’s time to move beyond one-off pieces of content. Sure, interesting singular pieces can pique visitor interest. But […]

  • Allison Schiff, senior editor, AdExchanger

    Big Tech Beware, Congress Is Learning Ad Tech Lingo

    “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 Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. A lot of people in the ad industry probably don’t know exactly what Google’s […]

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    Distinguishing Good Data From The Bad

    “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 Nish Desai, senior director of technology, operations and partnerships at Xaxis. Marketers have ever-growing streams of data and signals they can use to activate and optimize their advertising campaigns. But […]

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    The Great Pause Of 2020

    “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 Wheeler, CEO at 33Across. We’ve all had to take a huge pause in common everyday functions of life during this coronavirus pandemic: how we live and work. How our […]

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    The Facebook Boycott For The Rest Of Us

    “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 Ryan, CEO at Motivity Marketing. Surviving without Facebook should be easy for any advertiser to do. From a success measurement perspective, it should be just another interchangeable channel on […]

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    What The Inventor Of The Shipping Container Can Teach Us About Platform 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 Ruben Schreurs, CEO at Digital Decisions. In the early 1950s, Malcolm Purcell McLean stood in a massive line of trucks waiting to be offloaded by dock workers. The tedious process […]

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    The Low-Risk Decision To Pause Facebook

    “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 Rain the Growth Agency. Pausing advertising on Facebook can look risky. Facebook has become the marketing lifeblood of a long tail of small businesses while serving […]

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    Reducing Advertising Waste Requires Better Verification In These 3 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 Danilo Tauro, global director of media, tech and data at Procter & Gamble. Is advertising waste being driven by lack of technology, incentives, capabilities or all of the above? To […]

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    The Winners Of A Broken Duopoly Are Many, Not Few

    “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. As an industry, we’ve spent the last several years talking about the duopoly, specifically how Google and Facebook receive and control around 60% of […]

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    IDFA Apocalypse: What We Know (And Don't)

    “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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. It’s been a couple of weeks since the Apple WWDC conference, where we learned how the IDFA will become opt-in for consumers. Arguably this change […]

  • How I Would Change Facebook’s Algorithm

    “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 Kunal Gupta, CEO at Polar. I believe Facebook’s course ahead will have to start with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg showing some humility and accepting that they were wrong in […]

  • No More Inflammatory Jargon: Change Blacklist To Blocklist

    “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 Kraft, a principal at AQKraft Advisory Services and a former ad tech executive, most recently at Maven and AppNexus. Eighteen months ago, well before the recent protests against systemic […]

  • Brand Marketers Are Needed To Build The Post-Third-Party Cookie Ecosystem

    “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 Hugo Loriot, partner and managing director at 55. For the vast majority of marketers who have never visited a GitHub repository, now is the time to do so, because this is […]

  • The IDFA’s Uncertain Future Reinforces The Necessity Of First-Party Data Collection

    “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 Simon Harris, head of sales EMEA at MightyHive. Over the past 24 months, Apple has implemented increasingly aggressive iterations of Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), with the feature now blocking third-party cookies by […]

  • Marketers Need To Get Their Digital Display Houses In Order

    “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 Christian Polman, chief strategy officer at Ebiquity. Programmatic media buying and the vagaries of the digital media ecosystem hit the headlines again recently with the publication of PwC’s research report for ISBA. […]

  • Returning To Profitability Means Reducing The Cost Of Selling In The Wake Of COVID-19

    “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 Helberg, executive vice president and chief media officer at RPA. The COVID-19 shelter-in-place dynamic has compromised many business categories and nearly toppled others. The world of commerce has been […]

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