“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Various complaints argue that RTB is incompatible with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and other privacy regulations emerging around the world. Regardless of the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Patrick O’Leary, founder and CEO at boostr. Much has changed in selling media and advertising. The original relationship-focused DNA of the typical ad seller is no longer sufficient to thrive. Programmatic has flipped the equation, requiring strong analytical and numerical skills. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. As we all know, “cookies are crumbling” – third-party cookies specifically. But the crumbling goes far beyond cookies and into other ways of tracking users, including fingerprinting, link decoration, localStorage and other […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Keith Abbey, vice president of publisher growth at Sovrn. With less than six months to California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement, the law is still nebulous and far from its final shape. But that […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and, soon, California seem to be doing their best to rain on the programmatic parade. […]
When Remedy Health acquired Vertical Health in April, a key reason was the health site’s expertise in using data and targeting. Remedy Health, which didn’t run programmatic ads before, is now adopting Vertical Health’s in-house data platform for its sites, including HealthCentral and HIV management site TheBody. Vertical Health’s portfolio focuses on information for people […]
It’s a cliche to say that data is fuel but, in GasBuddy’s case, that’s literally true. The GasBuddy app, which helps drivers crowdsource information about cheap fuel prices, has access to opted-in location data from more than 15 million monthly active users. Users are more than willing to share their data, because they’re receiving a utility […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christopher Guenther, senior vice president, global head of programmatic, at News Corp. One of the oldest tenets of business has been to put the customer first – and it holds especially true for media. Publishers […]
Digital media brands are course-correcting to focus on profitability – and PopSugar is no exception. The media brand has been profitable for a year by following the playbook of diversifying revenue and improving the margin on existing revenue. Offline, the millennial women-focused publication is cashing in on the generation’s obsession with experiences, throwing a signature […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Kershaw, chief technology officer for Rubicon Project. It’s hardly revolutionary to predict the end of the third-party cookie. Digital advertising’s fundamental currency for the last ten years is under increasing strain. Regulators are […]
Consequence of Sound prides itself on its independent coverage of the music and film industries. But it doesn’t have the mass reach and recognition that easily entices buyers to go direct. On the open marketplace, it kills: Over 1,500 advertisers spend more than $100 per month on the open exchange with Consequence of Sound. As […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. I find brand safety one of the most baffling contradictions of our industry. It often represents the exact opposite situation in which any quality media […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jason Boshoff, chief operating officer at Bidtellect. If an advertiser’s primary objective is to hit a numeric KPI or a first- or third-party audience to achieve one, does it make sense to pay two to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Stephanie Layser, vice president of advertising technology and operations at News Corp. On an overcast day in April at Google’s New York headquarters, the tech giant’s product managers presented their vision for the latest innovation […]
Yelp is moving from targeting your local corner restaurant to businesses with hundreds or thousands of locations. Tom Foran, Yelp’s SVP of national sales, is leading this effort. It’s working. National sales grew 22% in the past year. Revenue for its top 100 customers soared 50%. His 250-person team is focused on Yelp’s “multi-location segment” […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. The death of the cookie has been predicted since at least 2013, but the third-party cookie has lingered so long because the advertising industry still depends […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Bender, global head of publisher strategy and business development at Prohaska Consulting. Sales teams are finally arming themselves with programmatic knowledge, but it’s not enough. The industry shift to audience-based buying requires a new […]
Mobile programmatic is in the seventh-inning stretch: It’s come a long way, but there’s still a lot of work to do, says Rick Welch, head of programmatic advertising at Flipboard. In the three years since Welch joined the mobile news aggregation app from Condé Nast in late 2016, more open exchange-oriented players have hit the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Grant Whitmore, chief digital operations officer at Tribune Publishing. For more than a decade a persistent imbalance in data and technology has dogged the programmatic marketplace, putting publishers at a distinct information disadvantage. Publishers […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Weaver, senior vice president of business growth and development at Al Jazeera Media Network. Following the 2016 presidential election, the impact of so-called “fake news” reverberated around the world. As a result, society […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. There has been a lot of noise about the upcoming updates to Google’s auction dynamics, including the practical details of what’s changing and […]
Highsnobiety curates and recommends the latest sneakers, streetwear and men’s fashion to its readers. Now David Fischer, the founder and CEO of the 14-year-old media brand, is using that expertise to create its own ecommerce, direct-to-consumer business. Highsnobiety’s first product “drop” in May, a partnership with Prada’s streetwear imprint “Linea Rossa,” sold out of the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Amazon bought Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) tool last week. If you’re not a Sizmek customer, this may not seem like a big deal. And […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. Does behavioral targeting make publishers more money? That’s a huge question with many potential ramifications, most significantly the conversations about government regulation of user tracking. A study released last week examined that […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Some could argue that media brands’ first-party user-level data is of high quality, but probably not unique if compared to Google’s, Facebook’s or Amazon’s. What […]
The New York Post promoted Sean Giancola to publisher and CEO in January after Jesse Angelo left the company. Giancola, who describes his background as “part publishing, part digital,” now oversees a newsroom for the first time. He’s also taking over several existing projects that will launch this year, he said. Revenue diversification is a […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Courtney Glaze, vice president of revenue operations at Vox Media. It’s not always lasting love at first sight. The media dating pool is big, and consumers have unlimited options. Companies need to use every […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Cimino, president at Cimino Collaborative and head of data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. I saw the vulnerabilities of cookies as far back as 2013. In an article titled, “The Cookie Has Five Years […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ben Dixon, CEO at Adslot. The traditional TV ecosystem still attracts immense money in advertising – an estimated $69.2 billion in 2019 – despite the continued proliferation of cord cutters, who shun content that can’t […]
Digital media companies who bet on social distribution and video have fallen on hard times, but Group Nine Media is angling to be the exception. Group Nine, whose brands include Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis and Seeker, has developed a holding company model designed to reduce costs by sharing backend resources – while still efficiently reaching […]
