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    Google Chrome: The Next Chapter Has Yet To Be Written

    “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, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Martin will present “The Cookieless Web And The Future Of The DMP” at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference, being held […]

  • Randall Rothenberg: The Cookie’s Death Heralds A Better Future For The Web

    “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 Randall Rothenberg, CEO at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Last week Google sent shock waves across the industry when it announced it would phase out third-party cookies for Google Chrome […]

  • After Google Finally Really Did It, A Necessary System Cleanup

    “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 and fellow, Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School. Last week, Google announced that it would phase out third-party cookies and even provide a solution […]

  • DMPs Aren’t Dead, But They Must Continue To Evolve

    “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 Gareth Davies, co-founder at Truth{set}. Google’s announcement to deprecate the Chrome cookie within two years seals the fate of anonymous behavioral data and its underlying identifiers and technology. The move […]

  • Google, You Finally Really Did It

    “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. “You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!” – Charlton Heston, “Planet of the Apes” Personally, I was a skeptic on whether […]

  • DTCs Must Mind The Mid-Funnel Gap As They Look To New Channels For Growth

    “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 Seraj Bharwani, chief strategy officer at AcuityAds. Businesses thrive or die based on the economics of the channels that close the gap between awareness and consumption. In the past decade, direct-to-consumer […]

  • Could CCPA Provoke Antitrust Actions Against 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 Victor Wong, CEO at Thunder Experience Cloud. What does selling data mean in 2020? This simple question will set off a major reckoning in the ad industry and potentially in the […]

  • How 3 Decade-Defining Trends Will Shape The 2020s

    “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 Bill Wise, co-founder and CEO at Mediaocean. This month marks the end of a decade in which the digital advertising industry came of age. When we think about where we […]

  • Marketers, Avoid These CCPA Blind Spots

    “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 Shane Nolan, senior vice president of consumer and business services at IDA Ireland. The golden age of gathering data through technology for marketing purposes was lucrative for many companies, but […]

  • The Future Of Ad Tech Will Be A Return To Vertical

    “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 Ed Carey, founder and CEO at Audience Town. Between 2001 and 2010, many industry vertical ad networks aggregated the publisher ad space, including travel, finance, auto, men, women and premium. […]

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    Brands Reap Great Value In Fixing The Agency Relationship Before Replacing

    “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 Bruno Gralpois, co-founder and principal at Agency Mania Solutions. Breakups happen, especially between clients and their agencies. But what is most shocking is that nearly one third of agency-client relationships last […]

  • Where The 'Cookie Apocalypse' Will Go

    “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 Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. Some point to browser privacy changes and comments from regulators as evidence that real-time bidding and tracking are ending. Indeed, the long-anticipated “death […]

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    For Media Companies, 2020 Will Be Determined By The Choices They Make Now

    “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 Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. The tide is turning in an ecosystem that should work harmonically but has for years favored one side at the expense […]

  • With CCPA On The Horizon, Marketers Can Expect A Very Different Holiday Season In 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 Matt Voda, CEO at OptiMine Software. The 2019 holiday season is nearly complete, and in only a matter of days, thousands of companies doing business in the United States will be […]

  • Advertisers And Publishers Must Adapt Their Priorities To Seize 2020’s Opportunities

    “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 Justin Choi, founder and CEO at Nativo. The pace of change in advertising is accelerating, but technology is no longer the sole driver. Instead, privacy regulations and heated competition among […]

  • DTC Brands: Better Able To Adapt To Offline Than Offline Brands Can Adapt To Online

    “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 Fayez Mohamood, CEO at Bluecore. When ecommerce-first or pure-play brands such as Warby Parker, Glossier or Bonobos move to physical retail locations, they’re often referred to as innovators. Alternatively, when […]

  • Coming Soon: The Demise Of The Brand Vs. Performance Construct

    “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, CEO at 360i. In most marketing organizations, brand and performance are pitted against each other, and budgets are chopped up accordingly. It’s an ingrained practice that ultimately gives large […]

  • Bid Log Data: Here, There, Everywhere

    “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 Tom Triscari, co-founder and managing partner at Labmatik. Programmatic often feels like a Churchillian riddle, wrapped in a data mystery, inside a $100 billion enigma. Perhaps this is why log data […]

  • 2019: The Year Brands And Publishers Began Taking Control Of Their Tech Stacks

    “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 Kerel Cooper, SVP of global marketing at LiveIntent. Technology, obviously, has its barriers. It takes skill, patience, resolve and education to really compete and innovate in our complicated field. For […]

  • As A New Decade Approaches, It’s Time To Double Down On Data Strategy

    “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 Briggs Davidson, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting. Very soon, the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States yet – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — will be a […]

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    Independent Ad Tech’s 2020 ‘Gap Year’ Will Help It Long Term

    “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. Some kids go straight from high school to Harvard. Others take a gap year ­to “find themselves,” tinker in their friend’s garage or simply […]

  • Privacy, Cookies And Personalization: Ad Tech Needs To Get Over It

    “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 Dan Linton, global data privacy officer at W2O Group. Bemoaning the impending sunsetting of the advertising cookie and decrying the supposed cognitive dissonance of consumers wanting more personalization and privacy at […]

  • Tech Agnostic Vs. Tech Objective

    “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 Greitzer, co-founder at Actable Data. The onslaught of technology companies disrupting the marketing services landscape continues unabated. Despite consolidation – and some capitulation – in advertising technology, the adjacent […]

  • Open Measurement: Hold That Victory Lap

    “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 Joseph Ranzenbach, director of product management, mobile and video, at Integral Ad Science. The Open Measurement initiative was created to solve for an industry-level challenge: Consumer attention had gone mobile […]

  • Before We Kill The Cookie, Let’s Ask Why

    “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 Kurt Donnell, president at Freestar. Right or wrong, the general public associates the term “cookie” with a perceived online privacy invasion. But cookies, along with other tracking technologies, provide the […]

  • Foxes Vs. Hedgehogs: Making T-Shaped People

    “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 Andy Littlewood, head of knowledge at MediaCom US. Not many things are linear in 2019, and certainly not when it comes to the complex question of connecting brands with consumers. […]

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    Is ‘Do Not Track’ The New ‘Do Not Sell’?

    “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 Richard Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. It’s been more than a month since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations were released by the state attorney general’s office, and […]

  • When Third Comes First

    “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 Karima Zmerli, chief data sciences officer at Wavemaker. Data’s importance can’t be overstated – it informs virtually every corner in the brand marketing ecosystem, from insights to creativity, media usage […]

  • Alessandro De Zanche

    Consent, Not Data, Is The New Oil

    “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 Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Companies’ user data ownership is dead, but we may have not fully realized and accepted it yet. How will privacy trends […]

  • The Unwanted Houseguest: Fostering A Healthy Consumer/Advertiser Dynamic

    “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 Linda Dupree, CEO at NCSolutions. When I started in this industry, advertising was like an unwanted houseguest. TV spots barged into our homes, stealing time from favorite shows. Ads slipped through […]

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