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  • The Year Of Measuring Human Connection

    “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 Ephraim (Jeff) Bander, president and chief revenue officer at Sticky. American motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar famously said, “People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.” […]

  • Traffic Duplication Might Be A Bigger Problem Than Ad Fraud

    “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 Oded Poncz, founder and chief technology officer at Ubimo. With mobile ad spending set to top $30 billion, can anything get in the way of this channel? I see one […]

  • Header Bidding Killed Programmatic Direct

    “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 Jed Nahum, an independent consultant and former head of Microsoft’s global programmatic sales team. Every year in digital advertising, we seem to have a new issue or two bubbling up […]

  • Ad Tech Is Merging With Mar Tech, But Who’s in Charge?

    “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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. If technology is driving the union between marketing and advertising, who will end up steering the car? The answer to that question will play out […]

  • Ad-Tech Consolidation And The Rule Of Three

    “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 marketing strategy and analytics, at the Institute for Choice, UniSA Business School. Many experts have warned since 2014 that the programmatic ecosystem will face […]

  • Digital Media’s Much-Needed Resolutions For 2016

    “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 Petty, vice president of client solutions, media and partnerships at 84.51°. A new year for many of us means a new start, a new way of doing things and […]

  • We Need To Close The Chasm Between Brand Goals And Publisher Metrics

    “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 Ephraim (Jeff) Bander, president and chief revenue officer at Sticky. Digital media has a persistent language problem. In particular, a huge gap exists between brand advertisers’ stated RFP goals and […]

  • Lessons In Customer Intelligence From Santa Claus, Marketer Extraordinaire

    “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 Yannick Koger, principal consultant at Infinitive. Right about now, many digital marketing pros wish their campaigns and programs were guaranteed to produce as much magic and happiness as that big […]

  • In-App Advertising Is Taking Off, But When Will Messaging Open Up?

    “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 Morse, vice president of mobile products at Criteo. Consumers spend an enormous amount of time on mobile, particularly with chat and messenger apps, such as Line, WhatsApp and Facebook […]

  • As Cross-Channel Marketing Matures, Privacy Pitfalls 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 Patrick Tripp, senior product marketing manager at Adobe. It’s easy to see why marketers would be enthusiastic about the ways data can be used to enrich the customer experience for […]

  • A New Brand-Agency Model Emerges In The Age of 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 Mike Peralta, CEO at AudienceScience. While many like to believe that advertising is a mystical combination of art and science mastered by a few qualified geniuses, the truth is that […]

  • How Will Consultants, Header Bidding And Agencies Fare In 2016?

    “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 O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. 2015 was a fantastic year for many data-driven marketers, with data management platforms (DMPs), consultancies and marketers getting something nice under […]

  • Let's Ditch Combo DSPs And Bake-Offs In 2016

    “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, COO at Goodway Group. Long ago there were only small specialty stores. Now we have Walmart, where we can buy tires, a pair of shorts, fertilizer and steaks for […]

  • Your Attribution Model Is Broken

    “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 Riordan, director of special operations at TubeMogul. For decades, there’s a question that has punctuated marketers’ nightmares: “Did our advertising work?” The advent of digital advertising was supposed to […]

  • Don’t Wait Around For A Universal 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 David Dowhan, president at TruSignal. For more than a decade, the cookie was a more or less universal way to track users across the Internet. Faced with today’s multidevice world, […]

  • Boredom Makes For A Great App Retention Tool

    “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 Lior Eldan, co-founder and chief operating officer at Moburst. Everyone in marketing, especially mobile marketing, knows attention is scarce. With attention spans getting shorter, the challenge of boosting retention and […]

  • To Survive, SSPs Must Become More Than Just ‘The Pipes’

    “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 Casey Saran, senior vice president of publisher products at Yieldmo. Since its inception in 2009, real-time bidding (RTB) has been a total game changer, accounting for approximately 50% of digital […]

  • Iframes Leave Us Vulnerable To URL Fraud

    “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 Dwight Ringdahl, senior vice president of technology at RhythmOne.   The digital advertising industry is trying to clean up its act, waging a war against fraud on multiple fronts. Efforts […]

  • Does Data Limit The Opportunity To Grow Brands?

    “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 by Matt Naeger, executive vice president of strategy and analytics for Merkle’s Digital Agency Group. Yes, I am saying that it is what they deliver that matters, and that delivering it – […]

  • A New Currency To Measure Audience Quality: qaCPM

    “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 Bryan Gernert, CEO at Resonate. Over the past decade, digital marketers have relied on quantity-based measurement as a proxy for campaign performance. The volume of impressions, clicks and likes signifies […]

  • Omnichannel Is Dead. Long Live Omnichannel.

    “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 Lempner, a customer intelligence practice executive at Infinitive. Maybe it’s a sign of the maturation of digital marketing or just the reality setting in, but there is emerging buzz […]

  • Engage The Unforgiving User

    “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 Assaf Suprasky, CEO at myThings. As it becomes ever more challenging to find, retain and monetize users, app developers are fighting an uphill battle. The statistics make for grim reading: […]

  • Will Snapchat Become The Industry’s Next Walled Garden Oligopolist?

    “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, former CEO at Brilig and Snickelways. I don’t fully understand Snapchat as a user, but as an Internet entrepreneur I know powerful new media when I see it. […]

  • The Match Game: Match Rates Are The New Click-Through Rates

    “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 O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Marketers comparing data management platforms have probably asked a vendor about match rates. Unfortunately, many don’t understand what they are asking […]

  • Should A Data Scientist Lead Your Marketing Team?

    “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 Shashi Upadhyay, CEO at Lattice Engines. For the past 15 years I’ve worked with marketers from Fortune 500 companies who are trying to get their hands around the increasing amount […]

  • If You’ve Got A Problem With Fraud, You're Doing Programmatic Wrong

    “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 Nicolle Pangis, global chief revenue officer at Xaxis. With $6.3 billion destined for illicit hands this year, according to the Association of National Advertisers, ad fraud is clearly a major […]

  • Walled Gardens: Learning From The Past To Predict The Future

    “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, CEO of Labmatik. Over the past few weeks I attended a number of programmatic industry events where attendees heard about newer topics, including ad blocking and header bidding, as […]

  • To Secure The Future Of Programmatic Direct, We Need Industry-Standard Terminology

    “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 Neil Sweeney, president and CEO at JUICE Mobile. There has been a lot of discussion lately about programmatic direct and its future. We can all agree that the industry moves […]

  • Ad Budgets Should Be Driven By Branding And 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 Jonathan Opdyke, CEO and co-founder at HookLogic. The budgeting approach to advertising is broken. Today’s budgeting structures were created back in an era when consumers touched one medium at a […]

  • Bigger Data Isn’t Always Better

    “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 Omar Abdala, chief data scientist at Lotame. In a fight, would you rather be big or smart? Many would choose bigger, but when it comes to big data, more isn’t […]

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