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  • 4 Wishes For Tomorrow’s Programmatic Direct Technologies

    “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 of Bionic Advertising Systems. Standardizing operations on a media management system and putting together a media plan are huge undertakings, with a ton […]

  • As Programmatic Flies High, Watch Out For Its Crosshairs

    “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 Steve Goldberg, senior adviser at EmpiricalMedia. “What was the exact day programmatic went from mostly aspiration to complete validity?” This is a serious question I posed last week to 10 […]

  • Be Mine: Data-Driven Valentine’s Day Wishes

    “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 Lung Huang, vice president of digital advertising, global partnerships, at dunnhumby. Now that we’re done hearing every industry pundit give their New Year’s resolution or big predictions for 2014, it’s […]

  • Getting Specific About 'Marketing Tech' Convergence

    “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 Louis Moynihan, vice president of business development at Demandbase. The convergence of “ad tech” and “marketing tech” has already emerged as a key theme for 2014. There’s just one problem. […]

  • How To Use RTB For Targeted Reach Instead Of Retargeting

    “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 was recently told by an executive in a position to know that 70 to 80% of revenue in the RTB space comes from […]

  • Why Private Exchanges Can Be More Than Just A Publisher 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 Paul Rostkowski, president at Varick Media Management. Online advertising is workflow-intensive, requiring agencies to field large teams of media planners and buyers to deal with orders. RTB has emerged to […]

  • Combating Impression Fraud Isn't Easy. Here’s What To Do Today

    “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, director of insights and technology at Mediasmith. Some estimate that a quarter or more of exchange media could be fraudulent. This has generated much discussion within the industry, […]

  • Why Social Matters In A Programmatic 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 Prasanta Behera, vice president of ad products at ShareThis. In today’s digital market, buyers need more than the traditional frameworks used to classify ad inventory. Content needs to be treated […]

  • Is Your Location Strategy Worth It? Here’s How To Tell

    “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. If you’ve ever been served an ad for a Los Angeles restaurant while visiting the San Diego Zoo, you’ve seen how imprecise location-targeted ads […]

  • Mobile Is Eating Display

    “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 Steketee, head of paid social and emerging media capabilities at Merkle. The growth rate of mobile is kind of like China’s economy: impossible to really track. The rapid takeover of […]

  • 5 Ad Tech Memes To Know For 2014

    “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 of Bionic Advertising Systems. Well, at least it’s not “The Year of Mobile” again. Or, maybe it is. After several days of media […]

  • Native And Automated Advertising: Complementary Or Competing?

    “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 Stevens, general manager for international at Rubicon Project. It’s fair to say that native advertising may have generated more column inches in the industry press than most any other […]

  • 3 Keys To Optimize Your Programmatic Ad Buys

    “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. Many marketers believe that programmatic media-buying platforms will optimize their ad campaigns but, in reality, nothing could […]

  • Is 2014 The Year – Or Death – Of 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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. More than ever, consumers connect with brands through mobile communications and perform transactions on mobile devices. According to comScore, 2013 was the […]

  • Why Wasting Impressions Is Good For 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 Joel Nierman, marketing and media director at Critical Mass Chicago. Improving the targeting of advertising has been a focus for the ad industry ever since John Wanamaker implied that it […]

  • Should We Still Call It Social?

    “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 Nikhil Sethi, CEO at Adaptly. What is social and what isn’t? Ultimately, when we say “social,” we refer to platforms with an associated network of people that allows for ideas […]

  • Ad Tech: Shifting From 'Why' To '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 Richard Sobel, senior director of account management and platform solutions at PubMatic. There are very few industry conversations I’ve had over the past year that perplex me more than the […]

  • How Storytelling Evolves In A World With More Screens And 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 Joe Fullman, director of digital strategy at Arnold Worldwide. A strategic approach to mobile is about more than mobile apps, adaptive design principles and display campaigns with teeny tiny banners. […]

  • The Real Promise Of Programmatic: Always On, Multichannel 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 Russell Glass, CEO at Bizo. Real-time bidding (RTB) emerged in the last few years as a new approach to buying and selling online display advertising in real time. The promise of RTB was, […]

  • Big Data 2.0: Valuing, Connecting, Protecting And Embracing 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 Niladri Batabyal, vice president of innovation at PlaceIQ. It seems like only yesterday that the big data movement revolutionized the way brands and marketers connected with their consumers. The first […]

  • Taking The Long View On Viewability

    “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. It’s that time of the year when industry analysts and self-appointed pundits (including yours truly) gaze into their crystal balls and predict the future […]

  • How Big Retail Can Use Big Data To Act Small

    “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 global media and partnerships at dunnhumby. If you frequent a small business, the owner may get to know you and ask you questions about your […]

  • Ad IDs Kill The Cookie. What Then?

    “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 Cameron Hulett, executive director at EMEA Undertone. When Google revealed plans for its own Internet tracking technology – called AdID – to replace the cookie, it signalled the death knell […]

  • Why The Transactional RFP Business Is Dying

    “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 of Bionic Advertising Systems. Direct mail is an amazing thing. It costs roughly $750 CPM to put a glossy catalogue in the mail, […]

  • Are Marketers Prepared For Data-Driven Advertising?

    Skills in data-driven disciplines are in high demand, and many marketers are picking up the quantitative skills they need on the job. The problem, said John Deighton, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is that while many marketers obtain quantitative skills as they work, business students, including marketers, are at a disadvantage […]

  • A Call For Sharper Bidding

    “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. It goes without saying that increased familiarity with programmatic buying has brought forth a lot of great executions among marketers. […]

  • How Audience Extension Hurts Data's Integrity

    “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 Jeff Sporn, SVP and GM for digital solutions at IXI, an Equifax division. Data is important for every online advertiser, but the rise in demand has led many to take shortcuts. […]

  • Physical And Digital Worlds Collide

    “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. Location metadata is revealing fresh insights about consumer behavior and giving marketers the ability to target a consumer by location context across channels. Using […]

  • Big Data’s Next Frontier: 2014 Will Be The Year Of Speed

    “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 Tewksbury, global vice president for product strategy at Experian Marketing Services. American Civil War experts recently posited that neither the tactical genius of Grant nor the moral superiority of Lincoln […]

  • On Language - Premium

    “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Ramsey McGrory was CEO of AddThis and previously ran Right Media for Yahoo!  I read a lot: business plans and other fiction, nonfiction and — more recently — William Safire’s “On Language” columns. I’ve always been […]

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