“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. I spend a lot of time traveling the country and meeting with big marketers to understand how they get new customers. Most of their internal marketing conversations […]
“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 Jim Caruso, vice president of product strategy at Varick Media Management. Advertisers are very excited about the rapid growth of mobile usage among consumers. By keeping Internet-connected devices close at […]
“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 Joy Baer, president at Strata. Recent reports that Pinterest is seeking $1 million to $2 million commitments from advertisers mark a bold strategy for the company, especially considering that it […]
“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 Shaina Boone, senior vice president of marketing science at Critical Mass. Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Since then, the Internet has enabled unprecedented access […]
“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 Jon Heller, co-CEO and co-founder at FreeWheel. When the MRC recently announced it had lifted its advisory on viewable impressions for display advertising, it noted that enhancements to standards on […]
“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 director at Gartner. You can’t swing a cat video in the marketing and ad tech space these days without hitting someone who says they have a hub, […]
“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 Seideman, US director of the targeting and exchange team at Microsoft. Programmatic has been never simple. But back in 2010, programmatic only meant one thing: the auctioning off […]
“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 Roman Shraga, data scientist at PlaceIQ. Is there a metric you use to evaluate the effectiveness of something critical to your company’s success? What about a metric used by your […]
“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. Mobile exchange inventory has gotten a bad rap. The age of programmatic and RTB had brought tremendous improvements and advantages to exchanges. Publishers can […]
“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 Casale, vice president of strategy at Casale Media Inc. One of programmatic’s key promises has always been that it would disrupt the ad networks’ lock on inventory supply in […]
“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 Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. I had the great fortune to moderate a panel called “Programmatic Guaranteed” at AdExchanger’s recent Programmatic.io conference in San Francisco. The prep conversations for […]
“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 Phillips, CEO at Dstillery. We hear a lot about device match rates these days. Maybe too much. It started a few years ago, when the advertising industry decided it […]
“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 Rossen, senior director of digital attribution at MarketShare. I am an audiophile. I enjoy music, especially the quality of music. As an audiophile, I have come to appreciate the […]
“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. The industry initially treated mobile like a silo in the rush to get ads onto devices. Marketers, eager to leverage these new devices, pushed agencies to […]
“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 Giles Goodwin, co-founder and president of product and technology at Flite. Display advertising had almost been written off when native advertising made its mark against a backdrop of controversy. While […]
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 Brooks Bell, founder and CEO of Brooks Bell Inc. Businesses capture mountains of data and increasingly use it to make smarter decisions. Customer data has become a valuable asset for […]
“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 Nishat Mehta, executive vice president of global partnerships at dunnhumby. Consumers further consolidated the number of retailers they invested in last year, shopping at fewer stores than in the past, […]
“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 Bob Buch, CEO at SocialWire. Off-network ads from Twitter and Facebook are poised to transform the display ad industry and disrupt many exchanges that have dominated the display market for […]
“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 Scharf, manager of display media operations and analytics at Adobe. The topic of viewability has infiltrated our lives. Viewability vendors flood the marketplace as marketers take steps to measure […]
“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 Ernie Cormier, CEO at Nexage. At first blush, there are two strategic imperatives in digital advertising that appear to conflict. First, marketers are catching up to the massive consumer shift […]
“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 Benjamin Masse, vice president and general manager, a2x, at Triton Digital. The advertising industry has changed dramatically in recent years. The digital age and vast array of audience-tracking data has […]
“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 Ted McConnell, a consultant at AudienceScience. Lately, trade pundits are predicting the disintermediation of agencies at the hands of digital. Indeed, like Jurassic Park, the ecosystem will produce outcomes no […]
“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. The proliferation of connected electronics has spurred new interest in device-recognition technologies even though they have been […]
“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. We’ve all heard the hype about hyperlocal marketing. This kind of mobile targeting allows brands to reach consumers on mobile devices and […]
“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. If you search Google for “transparency + ad tech,” you’ll get more than 20 million search results. Nearly every network, DSP and publisher claims […]
“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. Programmatic RTB has seen the lion’s share of venture capital funding and an enormous amount of innovation, yet RTB […]
“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 Sacha Xavier Reich, partner, media and innovation director for Neo@Ogilvy. It’s funny that they call it native advertising because it is anything but indigenous. Native advertising can be described as 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 Eric Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. In a recent column, Criteo CEO Jean-Baptiste Rudelle opined about the virtues of cost-per-click (CPC). I think he was right about the challenges and how […]
“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 Evan Schwartz, CEO at ActionX. Brands are paying closer attention to the benefits of broadening their mobile-only campaigns to include multiple consumer devices. This shift in strategy reflects a growing […]
“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. I’ve said before that IBM and other consultancies control the future of digital media because they can get better access to both client and media […]
