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  • Event-Level Data Enters The Spotlight

    “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 Aram Chekijian, senior vice president of analytics and insights at Accordant Media. The recent purchases of Adometry and Convertro by Google and AOL, respectively, signify anindustry that is finally taking […]

  • Machines Won’t Take Your Ad Tech Job

    “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 Lenaghan, head of data science at PlaceIQ. Warnings of the coming Skynet-ization of digital advertising are becoming increasingly common. But rest assured, the near-term future of our industry is […]

  • Cross-Device Tracking: Don’t Believe The Hype

    “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 Robert Webster, chief product officer at Crimtan. Recently the ad tech world has been getting very excited about cross-device tracking. What has been a theoretical holy grail for a long […]

  • The State Of The Privacy Debates

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO at Spanfeller Media Group, April was a banner month for the debate around privacy, ad tracking and government surveillance on the Web. There was the White House report on big data and […]

  • ‘Do Not Track’: Great For Internet Giants Like Google And 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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. I recently provided commentary for a Wall Street Journal article about the Do Not Track (DNT) proposal being crafted by the World Wide […]

  • Everything You Know About Frequency Is 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 Andrew Shebbeare, founding partner and global innovation director at Essence. It’s a slightly sensationalist headline, I admit. It’s been a while since I contributed to this series and I […]

  • Wanted: An Ad Tech Rosetta Stone

    “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 Eli Portnoy, general manager at Thinknear. There is a remarkable lack of symmetry in a traditional ad tech and ad buyer relationship. The ad tech company’s technology is invisible to […]

  • Do You Really Need A Chief Data Officer?

    “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 Matthew Keylock, senior vice president and global head of data at dunnhumby. There has been a veritable explosion of new CxO titles in the last decade. We now seem to […]

  • Being Upfront About The NewFronts

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Steve Goldberg, digital practice lead at Empirical Media. The recent NewFronts were super cool. Ambitious content, breakthrough ideas, blowout parties, even the guy who sings “Happy” wearing that weird hat. There is no doubt it […]

  • Stop Comparing Madison Avenue To Wall Street

    “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 Marcus Pratt, vice president of insights and technology at Mediasmith. In the world of ad tech, analogies are easy to find. They help make complicated matters easier to understand, lighten […]

  • Why Brands Should Like Facebook Analytics

    “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 Holly Maust, director of analytics at Moxie. Facebook measurement is no longer as easy as reporting how many likes, fans and shares your brand received. Data sophistication and intuition now play […]

  • Can Digital Ads Make You Cry?

    “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 Reid Tatoris, co-founder of Are You A Human. In the first season of “Mad Men,” there’s a great episode where the Sterling Cooper team comes across Volkswagen’s famous “Lemon” ad, […]

  • Is Your Ad Tech Like A Home-Cooked Meal Or Take-Out?

    “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 Kirk McDonald, president at PubMatic. To hear the business pages tell it, ad tech is a category very busy growing up: With high expectations for the industry’s major players, and […]

  • The Virtuous Cycle Of Programmatic 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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. Many recent articles have portrayed programmatic advertising as being in the middle of a vicious cycle, where an onslaught of nonhuman traffic and unviewable […]

  • How A Twist To Automation Can Conquer Compliance

    “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 Hagen Wenzek, founder of Freestyle Consulting. The question has been around for years. Why don’t we see an improvement in price performance of digital media trades even though we have more electronic […]

  • When Dead People Open The Mail

    “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, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. The Digital Marketing Association honored data legend Charles Stryker at its recent awards dinner. After accepting his award, he […]

  • Ignore The Silicon Valley Twilight Zone

    “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 Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. Marketers that successfully innovate in digital possess, without exception, established core competencies that deliver consistent results. These […]

  • Mobile Is Key To Unlocking Store Measurement

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. I recently bought a dress at a Uniqlo store in New York. Given the mobile soapbox upon which I typically stand, this […]

  • Death Of The B2B Ad Campaign

    “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 Russell Glass, CEO at Bizo. Yes, the B2B advertising campaign is in the last throes of death. Don’t believe me? I’ll explain. It all started with the buyer’s journey, which […]

  • Forget Data. It’s The Math – And New Customers – 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 Christopher Skinner, CEO at MakeBuzz. Marketing data started to become a big deal in the early 1970s. It was the first time household data was structured and organized in databases […]

  • In Defense Of Consumer Scores

    “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. I get it. Starting with our first-grade report card and continuing to the last time we pulled our credit report, we’ve feared someone else having […]

  • A Big Data Truth: It’s All Relative

    “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 Susan Zhang, data scientist at PlaceIQ. In the early 1900s, David Hilbert set out to prove the consistency of mathematics by reducing all mathematical statements into a formal language, from […]

  • Masters Of The Data Universe

    “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 Nardone, CEO at [x+1], and Ed See, principal at Deloitte for marketing and customer analytics. If you tuned into the Masters Tournament last month, you were treated to a […]

  • Agencies Undermine Mobile

    “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 Christopher Hansen, president at Netmining. It seems silly to think that mobile Web usage caught the advertising industry off guard. Existing ad companies, be they agencies or ad tech, were so […]

  • One-to-One: Overrated

    “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 Baker, CEO at DataXu. All marketers are rightly daunted by the cost and complexity of collecting vast quantities of consumer data and connecting it to their specific tastes in […]

  • When It Comes To Data, Bigger Is 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 John Shomaker, CEO at AdJuggler. The New York Times recently ran a column by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, two professors in NYU’s computer science department, questioning the merits and […]

  • What We Can Learn From Baseball And Big 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 Yannick Koger, principal consultant, big data and business intelligence, at Infinitive. Yogi Berra once said that it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. He could just have easily been talking […]

  • Programmatic Is Strategic

    “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 Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. There has been discussion recently on whether programmatic is a strategy or not. I believe programmatic is not a strategy, but it is strategic. Here’s […]

  • Localizing The Message Makes Brands Relevant

    “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 Eli Portnoy, general manager at Thinknear. Advertisers at national brands tend to think of location as a targeting tool. If they need to reach people in Los Angeles, for example, […]

  • Why Publishers Should Help Brand Marketers Launch Programmatic Campaigns

    “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 Stockfleth Larsen, chief marketing officer of Adform. Brand marketers love TV. It’s standard, has global reach, scales quickly and is an easy pitch in boardrooms. But most of all, […]

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