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  • I Have Seen The Future Of Measurement, And It Is … Messy

    “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, senior vice president of strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Measurement is a footnote – outglamorized by targeting and the opera of browsers, pushed into the corner during debates about the future […]

  • Ad Creative And Placement Context Must Work Hand-In-Hand In The Post-IDFA Era

    “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 Si Crowhurst, VP of Vungle Creative Labs. In early 2021, Apple will make its unique identifier for advertisers (IDFA) opt-in – meaning users will need to consent to being tracked […]

  • 5 Ways To Make Your Amazon Ads Stand 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 Mike Farrell, senior director of integrated digital strategy at Sidecar. Advertising on Amazon requires you to balance both offensive and defensive tactics. The overall goal is to appear alongside competitors and […]

  • Here’s How Moves By Google And Apple Will Impact The Relevance Of Marketers’ Creative

    “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 Malik Roberts, technical solution lead at Ad-Lib. As consumers, our data is becoming more private and less accessible. We’re becoming more difficult to track as we move around the internet, consume […]

  • 6 Pro Tips for Successful Mobile Games App 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 Ido Zehori, data science team leader at BigaBid. One in five users forget about an app after using it for the first time. They’re originally drawn to the app from an offer […]

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    Agencies, Brands and Publishers Beware: A Service Provider Approach To CCPA Is Risky

    “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 Leigh Freund, president and CEO at the Network Advertising Initiative. Uncertainty has clouded preparations for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ever since the law passed in 2018. Even […]

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    A/B Testing: What’s Old Will Be New Again In A Post-IDFA 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 Christophe Collet, CEO at S4M. When was the last time you heard A/B testing and IDFA in the same sentence? The former is traditional ad campaign testing methodology going back […]

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    B2B Marketers Must Take Personalization Further Than Their B2C Peers

    “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 Michael McLaren, global CEO, B2B Group, at Merkle. As more customer engagements move away from in-person contact to digital channels and virtual environments, the trends that were already driving the need for […]

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    Inclusive Advertising Needs To Extend To Audience Planning

    “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 JoAnne Monfradi Dunn, CEO at Alliant. Brands are attracted to audience targeting because it helps them home in on customers and prospects that represent likely buyers and the highest return […]

  • First- and Third-Party Data Lexicons Complicated The Evolution Of Data. Here’s How We Fix 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 Matt Spiegel, EVP of marketing solutions and head of the media vertical at TransUnion. You would be hard pressed to find someone in this industry who doesn’t think marketing has […]

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    We Can’t Let The Open Web Become A ‘Tragedy Of The Commons’

    “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 James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees.  The web was built on the vision that it would be free to the world as a public good and basic right for all. While in many […]

  • How To Own Data And Measure Performance In A Cookieless 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 Scott Tieman, head of programmatic services, and Brad Herndon, managing director of personalization and marketing analytics, both at Accenture Interactive. Despite the abundance of consumer data caused by the COVID-19 […]

  • Advertisers Must Take The Lead In The Next Privacy Sandbox

    “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 Sabella, CTO at PubMatic. As Google Chrome slowly dribbles out concepts for a cookieless future with little structure, many media buyers in the industry are getting restless to have […]

  • Allison Schiff, senior editor, AdExchanger

    Why Platform Changes Are A Bigger Deal Than GDPR

    “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 Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. The ad industry is facing a pair of interrelated existential threats: government regulation and […]

  • Are Black Voices Disappearing From LinkedIn?

    “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 Belinda Smith, marketing and diversity activist. My personal experience with LinkedIn changed overnight on May 26. The murder of George Floyd was the first time I remember seeing a flood […]

  • Brands Must Devise Different Strategies For Amazon, Social Media And The Open Web

    “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 Seraj Bharwani, Chief Strategy Officer at AcuityAds. Since the advent of One-Click checkout, advertisers have realized that awareness, consideration and purchase can all happen in seconds for consumable products. Thus, the […]

  • How To Secure User Consent On Apple Devices Early Next Year? It Starts With UX

    “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 Katie Hutcherson Madding, VP of product at Adjust. With the restrictions on IDFA scheduled for release in early 2021, app developers have a new and business-critical challenge ahead: the user opt-in. […]

  • Why Email Will – And Won’t – Be The Online Ad Industry’s Next Main Identifier

    “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 Ron Jacobson, CEO and co-founder at Rockerbox. Every couple of years, the foundations of online advertising are completely ripped apart. This time, it’s the impending death of third-party cookies and […]

  • Why Browsers Shouldn’t Be The Gatekeepers Of The Internet

    “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 Diarmuid Gill, CTO at Criteo. Since web browsers were released over 25 years ago, they have amassed a significant amount of power. They’re sources of both supply and demand, all while […]

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    Identity Needs A Solution Capable Of Actually Winning

    “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, president and partner at Goodway Group. In the cola wars, it was Coke vs. Pepsi. In the battle of the coasts, it’s New York vs. Los Angeles. Rap? Tupac vs. […]

  • The New Frontier For Personalized, Data-Driven Marketing Success

    “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 Laura Desmond, founder and CEO at Eagle Vista Partners. The current COVID-19 crisis has been an unprecedented game-changer for marketers. The last decade was driven by business and digital transformation, from […]

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    Building A Better Content Machine: The Assembly Line

    “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 Bibhakar Pandey, vice president of customer experience and marketing services at Capgemini. A content assembly line is exactly what it sounds like: a series of progressive steps to create and […]

  • Algorithmically Incorrect: The Lies Big Tech Tells Advertisers

    “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 Adam Heimlich, CEO at Chalice Custom Algorithms If you hire a street team to give out coupons and pay them on coupons redeemed, you’d better make sure they’re not handing them […]

  • How The Death Of Digital IDs Will Reshape The Marketing Mix

    “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 Ari Buchalter, CEO at Intersection. The impending demise of the cookie, IDFA, and likely all 1-to-1 identifiers available to third parties will rewrite the rules across the entire media mix. Our […]

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    Want To Use Carrier Data? 4 Things You Must Know To Maximize 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 Brian Chap, founder of Tech Recipes. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple may have some of the best data on the market, but they lack the ability to provide the most […]

  • Shiv Gupta, founder, U of Digital

    Calling BS In 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 Shiv Gupta, founder at U of Digital. Ad tech is full of BS. Why is that? Because when companies create confusion about their products, to make themselves sound more advanced than […]

  • Paul Cimino

    Balancing The 3 S’s (Scale, Signal And Safety) In A New 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 Paul Cimino, president at Cimino Collaborative Consulting. Safety and privacy have become driving forces in advertising. New laws, ad blocking and OS/browser changes have turned the industry upside down. I […]

  • The Great CDP Shakeout (Is Not Forthcoming)

    “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 Greitzer, co-founder and CEO at Actable. There are a lot of customer data platforms in the market. And I mean a lot – my team tracks this closely and […]

  • Huge Issue On The November 2020 Ballot – No, Not That One. CCPA 2.0!

    “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 Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. There’s an election this November, and there will be a huge issue on the […]

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    An Open Letter To Apple: Thank You For Throwing The Industry In Flux

    “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 Maor Sadra, co-founder and CEO at Incrmntal. Dear Apple, During the last WWDC conference you threw a bomb and put the in-app performance marketing world in flux by making the […]

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