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  • 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 […]

  • Are DSPs Too Powerful For Most Users?

    “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. All too often in today’s digital advertising industry, new agency hires are quickly handed the keys to technologies that can unleash millions of dollars in […]

  • Since Real-World Places Are Dynamic, Geofences Should Be, Too

    “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 Alistair Goodman, CEO at Placecast. In the world of mobile marketing, geofencing has become the lingua franca for agency buyers, retailers, techies and data analysts. Everyone understands the idea of […]

  • People-Based Marketing Offers Great Promise, But Ad Hoc Processes Slow Scale-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 Stephanie Russell, vice president of enterprise solutions at Merkle.  Data-driven marketers now have the ability to target individual people – not just cookies – in so many types of media, […]

  • Real-Time Data Isn’t Always Necessary

    “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. Two-thirds of of publishers, regardless of size, believe that real-time data is important to their efforts, according to a recent […]

  • Are Artificial Price Floors The Next Iteration Of 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 Jim Caruso, senior vice president of product and client strategy at Varick Media Management. The digital advertising industry has a history of concerns around viewability, brand safety and nonhuman traffic, […]

  • As Ad Blocking Grows, What Legal Recourse Do Publishers And Marketers Have?

    “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 Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. Ad-blocking software has long been a concern of agencies, marketers and publishers, but recent developments have pushed the issue to the forefront. Now […]

  • Marketers Need To Master Content Sequencing

    “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, head of products at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. With the momentum behind ad blocking currently looking unstoppable, the ad industry is having a collective moment of reflection. It boils […]

  • The New Lawmen Of Ad Tech

    “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 Simeon Simeonov, founder and chief technology officer at Swoop. While most ad tech companies busily rake in short-term revenues, a handful of major players are quietly taking the law into their own […]

  • Apple Gives Video Publishers An Early Holiday Gift: Search

    “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 Frank Sinton, founder and CEO at Beachfront Media. “Hundreds of channels, and still nothing to watch,” as the old adage goes. In the app world, which will soon include the […]

  • Facebook Unveils Slideshow To Boost Video Ads In Emerging Markets

    Video advertising has grown steadily in recent years, with some predicting that spending will top $5.4 billion next year. Now a new video tool and ad unit from Facebook could send digital video ad spending even higher, particularly in developing countries. The social media giant on Thursday officially launched Slideshow, a dynamic ad unit that […]

  • Brands And Agencies Should Practice Safe Advertising With Google

    “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 Zvika Netter, co-founder and CEO at Innovid. The disruption and transformation among media giants right now is not only an ideal breeding ground for industry reinvention. It’s also the perfect […]

  • Macro Programmatic Vs. Micro: Stepping Over Dollars In The Pursuit Of Pennies

    “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 Flanagan, director of strategic partnerships at DataXu. It has been said that we usually fail not because of the lack of a solution, but because we set out to […]

  • Implementation Is The Destination: Slowing Down Can Boost The Value Of Ad Tech

    “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 Haight, an executive at Infinitive. In the digital advertising business, time is always of the essence. We offer real-time auctions and immediate placements and track impressions in microseconds. The […]

  • Is PII Still The Third Rail Of Privacy For Ad Tech?

    “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. The rules around the merger of personally identifiable information (PII) with ad-serving data are perhaps the most oft-referenced privacy rules in ad tech. […]

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