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  • How Much Targeting Is Too Much Targeting?

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. P&G made headlines in 2016 when it announced it would scale back on Facebook targeting. At the time, P&G CMO Marc Pritchard said, […]

  • How Digitally Native Brands Succeed On Programmatic

    “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 Sam Appelbaum, general manager at Yellowhammer Media Group. At its annual meeting, the IAB [PDF] highlighted a shift in today’s brand economy from a supply chain-driven paradigm to one defined […]

  • Speaking The Same Language On Cross-Media Audience Measurement Standards

    “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 George W. Ivie, CEO and executive director at the Media Rating Council. Cross-device audience measurement is difficult and has been slow to emerge because the clues involved are unique to […]

  • ‘Advertising Wins Elections’ And Other Myths

    “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, research vice president at Gartner. People who believe Cambridge Analytica put our president in office aren’t thinking very hard. We know how advertising works: It hardly works at […]

  • The Customer Service Imperative 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 Alex Perrin, vice president of programmatic strategy at Viant’s Adelphic. Brands place too high of a priority on impersonal technology versus strategic partnerships that garner access to innovative solutions. Everyone […]

  • Fixed-Price Buying Prevents Marketers From Unlocking The Power Of Their 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 Tim Sims, senior vice president of inventory partnerships at The Trade Desk.  For all of digital’s promise, some marketers today still execute media buys the way they did in the […]

  • Ads.txt And The Future Of Data Pricing

    “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 Ben Goldman, chief revenue officer at 180byTwo. Ads.txt adoption is creating ripple effects throughout the media ecosystem. Launched by the Interactive Advertising Bureau as a way to combat fraud caused […]

  • The Silver Lining In Lost Business

    “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 Shachar Shamir, co-founder at Ranky. Too often, marketing and sales folks work hard to move leads through the sales funnel, only for some of those customers to leave after making […]

  • Is CRM The Future Of Agencies?

    “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 Ka Mo Lau, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Thunder. The agency industry has had an identity crisis in recent years in the wake of digital media’s disruption. […]

  • Is Your Data Healthy?

    “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 Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. How much do we really know about the data we use? A company’s advertiser, agency or […]

  • For Ad Agencies to Survive, Transparency Must Be More Than Just A Buzzword

    “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 Mike Romoff, head of global agency and channel sales at LinkedIn. Ad agencies face an existential crisis, years in the making, and it feels particularly urgent at this moment. There […]

  • AI In Marketing: Where And When It Can Make A Difference

    “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 Dana Hayes, president at ShareThis. Today’s CMO is tasked with the challenge of understanding a far greater number of channels, platforms and technologies than ever before. Couple that with the […]

  • Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Shows The Importance Of Data And Trust In Advertising

    “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 Joshua Lowcock, executive vice president and chief digital and innovation officer at UM Worldwide. The advertising industry often talks about trust – trust between advertisers and their agencies, trust between […]

  • Blockchain Is Here, But Legal And Practical Issues Abound

    “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 Vejay G. Lalla, a partner in the advertising, marketing and promotions group at Davis & Gilbert. Blockchain technology took off in 2017 across a wide array of industries and may […]

  • How Change Blindness Diminishes Advertising Effectiveness

    “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 Serge Ioffe, co-founder and chief technology officer at RevJet. In a study conducted several years ago, while counting the number of times several jugglers  passed a ball back and forth, […]

  • Ad Tech Isn’t Overpriced

    “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 Shebbeare, co-founder and chief product officer at Essence. One can’t fail to notice the headlines about big brands taking their money back to traditional channels, grumbling that the programmatic […]

  • How To Survive In A First-Price, GDPR 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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Imagine it’s 2016, and a marketer is programmatically targeting EU consumers with behavioral data and buying those impressions on a second-price auction. When […]

  • GDPR And The Confounding Question Of ‘Legitimate Interest’

    “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 Berry, CEO at TripleLift. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is going into force in late May and could either devastate the programmatic ecosystem in Europe, along with the […]

  • Is A Single Viewability Standard Possible?

    “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 Bradley Timmers, director of product management at Integral Ad Science. The last four years have seen digital advertising adopt viewability as a primary measure of media quality, with numerous agencies, […]

  • What Really Matters 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 Nathan Brixius, vice president at 84.51° Data and analytics are often used in dubious ways for dubious ends. Bob Hoffman and others have written about their frustrations of an industry that needs […]

  • Deterministic Data Isn't What It Seems

    “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 Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. Metadata is necessary to wield identity with the same accuracy as the triopoly – Facebook, Google and Amazon. The triopoly has great metadata […]

  • Complexity Vs. Simplicity: Betting On The Future Of Marketing Technology

    “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. If you are going to start a new company or grow an existing one in the marketing technology world, you need to first place a […]

  • Media For Brands On A Budget

    “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 Jason Dille, vice president of media at Chemistry. Nature tends to favor the large – except when it doesn’t. Take the African elephant, the largest land-based animal on the planet, […]

  • The Winners And Losers In The Impression ‘Rightsizing’ Event

    “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 Judy Shapiro, founder and CEO at engageSimply. I don’t believe it’s an overstatement to suggest we are witnessing the first real rightsizing of digital media impressions since ad tech became […]

  • Is Transparency Fueling Advertiser Paranoia?

    “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, managing director and chief revenue officer at AppLift. Digital advertisers say they want transparency, but I’m not sure many would know what to do with it once they […]

  • PII May No Longer Be The Third Rail Of 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 Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. In the past, if you mentioned personally identifiable information (PII) to someone in the […]

  • Marketers Ignore Retention And Loyalty At Their Peril

    “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 Marc Kiven, founder and chief strategy officer of Signal. CEOs know that the most valuable customers are those they already have. Unfortunately, most marketing campaigns are still oriented toward acquiring new customers […]

  • Could The Chrome Ad Blocker Help Programmatic Move Past The Click-Through Rate?

    “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 Michael Lehman, vice president of supply at TripleLift. Despite efforts to evolve private marketplaces, investment in automated guaranteed and recent developments around non-standard formats being transacted programmatically, the indirect channel […]

  • The Ad Industry Needs An ‘Amnesty Day’ To Come Clean And Move Forward

    “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, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Guy tells his doctor that his brother thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, “Why don’t […]

  • Reexamining The Lookback Window For Mobile Location 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 James Smith, chief revenue officer at Arrivalist. Today, brands mainly use mobile location data to measure media effectiveness by aligning analysis with a specific campaign flight. They’ll look at start […]

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