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  • Cross-Channel Attribution: A Bad Idea That Gets Worse With Time

    “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 Hill, founder and CEO at VuPulse. Sure, I’d love to be able to tell you that attribution has been solved and all your marketing and ROI worries are done and […]

  • Audience Planning Ate Media Planning

    “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 Monahan, global client president and head of US ventures at Dentsu Aegis Network. Technology is often overhyped in the short term and underhyped in the long term. While the […]

  • Google Is In A Giving Mood With Its App Campaign Rethink

    “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 Kazu Takiguchi, CEO and founder at Creadits. Google giveth and Google taketh. The world’s biggest search engine can make or break an advertising campaign, and, luckily for digital marketers, Google […]

  • Black Holes In Our Data Models Are Quietly Getting Bigger

    “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 Nathan Woodman, an independent consultant and former chief data officer at Havas Media Group. We don’t talk about it much, but there is a growing bias in the data that […]

  • Why We Need A UPC Code For Ads

    “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 Vijoy Gopalakrishnan, senior vice president and principal at the IRI Media Center of Excellence. Fifteen years ago, ad tech was a manual affair. Piecing together ad serving was such a […]

  • Though They Can Be A Pain Point, Marketers Should Embrace Data Clean Rooms

    “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, managing director at 55. A couple of months ago a friend of mine, who works for a large brand, asked me whether to add Google’s clean room, the […]

  • Good Things (Can) Come In Black Boxes

    “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. Conventional wisdom nowadays advises marketers to run as far away from black-box ad tech companies as possible. If a sales rep tries to […]

  • How UX Can Shape DTC Brand 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 Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. At the heart of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) revolution is a fundamentally different relationship between brand and customer. That difference is driven by technology. Trillions […]

  • Using Machine Learning To Break The Cycle Of Bias

    “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 Taejin In, vice president of product management at Dstillery. Within the field of machine learning, there are two approaches – supervised and unsupervised learning – that advertisers must familiarize themselves […]

  • Why Technology And Data Assets Should Not Be Owned By Your Agency

    “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. Advertising agencies are often masters of creating and developing brands. To survive and keep striving, they […]

  • Buyers Must Consider DSP Optimization Strategies When Scoping The Best Supply Paths

    “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 Bram Woolcott, product manager at TripleLift. Supply path optimization (SPO) is about finding the most efficient path to inventory, but there is no consensus about what efficiency actually is. Demand-side platforms […]

  • The Case For (Any) Unified ID

    “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 Schenkel, senior vice president of global commercial development at GumGum. There’s nothing like an existential threat to make allies – or frenemies, at least – out of rivals. The DigiTrust/IAB group, […]

  • The Cost Of Ad Fraud: Cleaner Inventory Means Higher CPMs

    “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 Mitchell Reichgut, founder and CEO at Jun Group. Fraudulent ads have long plagued digital advertising, and the industry is finally making serious headway against them. About $5.8 billion in fraud-related losses is […]

  • As Data Sales Rise, Questionable Provenance Proves A Growing Threat

    “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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. According to the IAB’s Outlook for Data Report, marketers plan to spend more money on data than ever. But just as investment […]

  • A New Mindset: Making Bottom-Up, Dynamic Media Planning Work

    “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 Greg Anderson, managing director at Xaxis.  The constant growth in the numbers of devices and media outlets has rapidly changed the ways in which consumers can access content. That has […]

  • Attribution Does Not Imply Causation

    “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 Carl Spaulding, executive vice president of strategy at NCSolutions. Advertisers need a refresher course on the difference between attribution and causation – and why proving the latter is so much […]

  • The Promise Of Simplicity For B2B Marketers Is A Lie

    “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 Rob Hyams, chief creative officer and partner at McMillan. B2B marketers’ worlds are filled with complexity – in the competitive landscape, products, pricing, channels, customers and their organizations, not to mention […]

  • As Demand For Ad Tech Expertise Soars, Companies Must Grow Their Own Digital Talent

    “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 Carl Smith, owner, Bureau of Digital. Corporations have long been known to poach talent from marketing and advertising agencies every five years or so, a practice that continues today with a […]

  • Consumer Data Concerns: Let’s Admit There’s A 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 written by Pieter de Zwart, chief technology officer at Eyeota. The ad tech industry today is effectively chasing quarters into oncoming traffic. We are taking user concerns like privacy entirely too lightly, or […]

  • Slow Play: Ad Tech’s Rapid Rate Of Change Is Just An Illusion

    “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 Mitchell Reichgut, founder and CEO at Jun Group. There’s a parable about a master calligrapher who sold his work for enormous sums of money. One day, a man asked the calligrapher […]

  • The Leadership Challenge

    “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 Rishad Tobaccowala, chief growth officer at Publicis Groupe. Today, leaders are more challenged than they have ever been, with many of the next generations skeptical of our capabilities, integrity and […]

  • Experience Analytics Can Help Mobile Marketers Read Between The Lines

    “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 Helmreich, group vice president at Oracle Marketing Cloud. As the popularity of mobile shopping continues to skyrocket, there’s one key thing to remember: While the outcome is the same […]

  • Brands Must Prepare For Advertising In A Cookie-Less 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 Scott Tieman, global head of programmatic services at Accenture Interactive. The death of cookies is beginning to have real impacts for brands, publishers and everyone in between. Ultimately, it will […]

  • Do Huge FTC Fines Signal A Huge Increase In Enforcement?

    “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. If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were a private business, it would be having […]

  • Team Optimization: Easing The Tension Between Data Science And Marketing

    “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 Katie Malone, director of data science research and development, at Civis Analytics. Seven years ago, I was hanging out at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, working as a graduate student researcher […]

  • Eating Our Own Dog Food: The Role Of Marketing To Marketers

    “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 Maja Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers. While most ad tech and mar tech companies will seem like a classic B2B technology marketing use case, it’s easy to underestimate the […]

  • The Secret To Facebook’s $67 Billion Ad Machine

    “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. Facebook’s ad revenue this year – expected to be $67 billion – will be more than every other ad tech platform combined, including Google’s network […]

  • Is 5G On A Collision Course With Privacy?

    “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 Kelly Anderson, vice president of data protection and privacy at Ericsson Emodo. Just as 5G is coming into view on the horizon, there’s a trainload of new privacy regulations and […]

  • Shattering Ad Targeting’s Glass Ceiling

    “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 Rachel Gantz, SVP, commercial, at Comscore. Time’s up. #MeToo. Equal pay. This is the world many of us proudly live in. Gender identity and norms have become more fluid and […]

  • Agencies Must Become More Neutral To Thrive (And Even Survive)

    “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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. Organizations are awash in data. They are creating more and more of their own data, and they are now starting to buy increasing amounts of external […]

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