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  • Many Bites Of The Apple: New Ways To Look At Attribution

    “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 Solomon, vice president of product at PebblePost. If a marketer tells you he has mastered summing up total campaign conversion rates across all channels, I have a bridge to […]

  • Today’s Biggest Ad Trend: A Flight to Quality

    “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 G. Brooks, founder and CEO at GlassView. Programmatic advertising started with the premise that advertisers were unnecessarily limiting themselves. As MediaMath founder Joe Zawadzki explained, “At the time, it […]

  • Snap’s Branded Storytelling A Bold Strategy For Mobile 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 Daniel Meehan, CEO at PadSquad. You can’t monetize poor creative. Yet so many content creators, brands and publishers simply “turn on” advertising with an automated ad tech solution and check […]

  • 6 Questions Marketers Need To Answer Before Taking Their Media In-House

    “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. Let’s get this out of the way: I’m biased. I set up an agency 12 years ago, and I still work […]

  • Better Teams Create Better 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 Kate O’Loughlin, senior vice president of media business at Tapad. More than ever, advertisers, agencies and ad tech vendors are trying to find the best way to amplify the efforts […]

  • Bidding Farewell To The Audience

    “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 Dillon Roulet, founder and CEO at Syndic8. Advertising without an audience sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s a reality that’s destined to take hold sooner, rather than later. When programmatic […]

  • Ad Tech Transparency And The Question of Market Manipulation

    “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, senior research analyst for programmatic strategy and analytics at the University of South Australia. Following many critical expert comments and scandals in 2016, the transparency debate finally seems to […]

  • Netflix’s Use Of Big Data: Lessons For Brand 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 Jonathan Cohen, principal brand analyst at Amobee. Last Friday, Netflix founder Reed Hastings celebrated Netflix getting its 100 millionth subscriber, a major milestone for a company that has spent the […]

  • Are Algorithms Ruining 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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. Inspired by results from retargeting, marketers are scrambling to stitch together customer data, unleash machine learning and deliver personalized experiences in display and […]

  • What Blockchain Can (And Can’t) Solve For 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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Few technologies are riding as high on the hype curve right now as blockchain. With its distributed nature, smart contract functionality and […]

  • Contextual Brand Safety: Now What?

    “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 John Montgomery, global executive vice president, brand safety, at GroupM. On Feb. 9, The Times, one of oldest and most venerable newspapers in the world, ran a story titled “Big […]

  • In Big Media Reviews, It’s The Little Things That Matter

    “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, president at 360i. It’s no secret that there’s been a massive uptick in media reviews in recent years, a trend that shows no signs of slowing. Unsurprisingly, the […]

  • The Tactical Implications Of The Walled Gardens

    “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. The growth of walled gardens has quickly brought media buyers through the first four stages of grief: Denial: Those little text ads don’t really work […]

  • Machines Can’t Make Sweet Marketing Jazz

    “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 Doug Smith, senior director of product management, platform and user experience, at Turn. With all that’s been written about AI in ad tech, it’s time to check in on the […]

  • Brands Need A Data Strategy That’s In A League Of Its Own

    “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 Tony Blankemeyer, partnerships lead at 84.51°. Spring is in the air, and the Major League Baseball season is in full swing. In baseball, you can’t score a run for your […]

  • The Market For Ad-Tech Startups Is As Inhospitable As Ever

    “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 Hagai Tal, CEO at Taptica. At the beginning of last year, ad tech saw a market correction. After several years of overvaluation, investors had finally sobered up. By late 2016, […]

  • How To Waste Retail Ad Dollars: Ignore Product Stock Levels, Chase Clicks

    “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 Andreas Reiffen, founder and CEO at Crealytics. If marketers are looking to waste their ad dollars, today’s digital ecosystem offers no shortage of options. They can advertise to a user […]

  • As The Facebook-Google Duopoly Fragments, Agencies Win

    “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. Although 2017 prediction pieces are barely 90 days old, we’re seeing an important development that few, if any, mentioned: We may be […]

  • What Comes First – The Data Or The Creative?

    “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 Rajiv Bhat, senior vice president of data sciences and marketplace at InMobi. When putting together a content strategy, marketers face a big question: What comes first: the data or the […]

  • The Pain And Promise Of Beacons In Retail

    “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 Handly, CEO at Reveal Mobile. Beacons entered the marketing landscape a few years ago with splashy headlines touting large national retail deployments and the ability to engage with customers […]

  • One-To-One Marketing With A 90-Degree View Of the Consumer

    “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 Bailey, executive vice president of strategy and analytics at Target Data. One-to-one is the pinnacle of marketing. It’s why a steady stream of venture capital has poured into companies […]

  • Viewability Rewards Intrusive 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 Phil Schraeder, president and chief operating officer at GumGum. Marketers like Marc Pritchard, P&G’s global brand-building officer, are beginning to throw down the gauntlet on viewability. Few publishers have sat […]

  • Ready, Fire, Aim: Consumer Privacy And Mistrust In The Digital Age 

    “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 Ramsey McGrory, chief revenue officer at Mediaocean. 2016 may well be remembered as the year of mistrust. Around the world and here in America, populist movements were fueled by a rising […]

  • Rethinking The Open Garden In The Wake Of Brand Safety Woes

    “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 Chandler, chief business officer at Kargo. What a week. More than 250 brands pulled back their ad spending due to unsafe supply in the very walled gardens that claim […]

  • B2B Marketers Have The Most To Gain With Universal IDs

    “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 Herbst, vice president of programmatic data solutions at Bombora. Despite the growth of data-driven marketing, it’s actually becoming more challenging and costly for advertisers to identify, track and accurately […]

  • It’s Still Marketing: We Just Added AI

    “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 Zimm Zimmerman, vice president of personalization at Merkle. Yes, it is still marketing. At its core, marketing is still focused on the fundamentals, including brand reinforcement, a compelling offer, incredible […]

  • Match Rates Are Just A Number

    “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 Terry Chen, product manager, Adobe Analytics Cloud. I recently overheard a few co-workers debating the merits of online dating apps. One was particularly enthusiastic about the demographic and geographic filters […]

  • Has Ad Tech and Mar Tech Investment Peaked?

    “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 Mark Smith, president at Kitewheel. Marketers’ essential need to reach consumers with the right messages along their journeys has stayed the same, but the amount of solutions available to them […]

  • Making Your Digital Media Job ‘Automation-Proof’

    “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. One thing the human brain is conditioned to do is take shortcuts in making assessments and decisions. Without this, we’d be stuck in […]

  • The Death Of The Third-Party Ad Exchange

    “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 Rajeev Goel, co-founder and CEO at PubMatic. The lifespan of and need for specialized technology providers in the ad tech industry, from sell-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs) to […]

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