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  • 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 […]

  • Nadav Dray, VP Operations, AnyClip

    Preparing For Life Without Mid-Roll

    “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 Nadav Dray, VP Operations at AnyClip. As of Aug. 5, Google’s Chrome browser will begin blocking traffic from sites that are not compliant with the latest standards from the Coalition […]

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    Building A Better Content Machine: The Scorecard

    “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. It’s time to move beyond one-off pieces of content. Sure, interesting singular pieces can pique visitor interest. But […]

  • Allison Schiff, senior editor, AdExchanger

    Big Tech Beware, Congress Is Learning Ad Tech Lingo

    “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. A lot of people in the ad industry probably don’t know exactly what Google’s […]

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    Distinguishing Good Data From The Bad

    “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 Nish Desai, senior director of technology, operations and partnerships at Xaxis. Marketers have ever-growing streams of data and signals they can use to activate and optimize their advertising campaigns. But […]

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    The Great Pause Of 2020

    “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 Wheeler, CEO at 33Across. We’ve all had to take a huge pause in common everyday functions of life during this coronavirus pandemic: how we live and work. How our […]

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    The Facebook Boycott For The Rest Of Us

    “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 Kevin Ryan, CEO at Motivity Marketing. Surviving without Facebook should be easy for any advertiser to do. From a success measurement perspective, it should be just another interchangeable channel on […]

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    What The Inventor Of The Shipping Container Can Teach Us About Platform 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 Ruben Schreurs, CEO at Digital Decisions. In the early 1950s, Malcolm Purcell McLean stood in a massive line of trucks waiting to be offloaded by dock workers. The tedious process […]

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    The Low-Risk Decision To Pause Facebook

    “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 Peterson, managing partner at Rain the Growth Agency. Pausing advertising on Facebook can look risky. Facebook has become the marketing lifeblood of a long tail of small businesses while serving […]

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    Reducing Advertising Waste Requires Better Verification In These 3 Areas

    “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 Danilo Tauro, global director of media, tech and data at Procter & Gamble. Is advertising waste being driven by lack of technology, incentives, capabilities or all of the above? To […]

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    The Winners Of A Broken Duopoly Are Many, Not Few

    “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. As an industry, we’ve spent the last several years talking about the duopoly, specifically how Google and Facebook receive and control around 60% of […]

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    IDFA Apocalypse: What We Know (And Don't)

    “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 Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. It’s been a couple of weeks since the Apple WWDC conference, where we learned how the IDFA will become opt-in for consumers. Arguably this change […]

  • How I Would Change Facebook’s Algorithm

    “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 Kunal Gupta, CEO at Polar. I believe Facebook’s course ahead will have to start with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg showing some humility and accepting that they were wrong in […]

  • No More Inflammatory Jargon: Change Blacklist To Blocklist

    “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 Kraft, a principal at AQKraft Advisory Services and a former ad tech executive, most recently at Maven and AppNexus. Eighteen months ago, well before the recent protests against systemic […]

  • Brand Marketers Are Needed To Build The Post-Third-Party Cookie Ecosystem

    “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 Hugo Loriot, partner and managing director at 55. For the vast majority of marketers who have never visited a GitHub repository, now is the time to do so, because this is […]

  • The IDFA’s Uncertain Future Reinforces The Necessity Of First-Party Data Collection

    “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 Simon Harris, head of sales EMEA at MightyHive. Over the past 24 months, Apple has implemented increasingly aggressive iterations of Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), with the feature now blocking third-party cookies by […]

  • Marketers Need To Get Their Digital Display Houses In Order

    “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 Christian Polman, chief strategy officer at Ebiquity. Programmatic media buying and the vagaries of the digital media ecosystem hit the headlines again recently with the publication of PwC’s research report for ISBA. […]

  • Returning To Profitability Means Reducing The Cost Of Selling In The Wake Of COVID-19

    “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 Helberg, executive vice president and chief media officer at RPA. The COVID-19 shelter-in-place dynamic has compromised many business categories and nearly toppled others. The world of commerce has been […]

  • A Decade Of Marketing Inefficiency Is Being Laid Bare

    “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 Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic implications are catapulting the tech-driven marketing world into a new phase of maturity: a long-overdue period of […]

  • During The Restart, Advertisers Will Need To Do More With Less. That Could Be An Asset.

    “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 Philip Smolin, chief strategy officer at Amobee. Society has restarted, and businesses are learning a new normal in real time. They’re adapting to changing public health measures, evolving consumer behaviors […]

  • With The End Of Browser Cookie Support, What Will Happen To Measurement And Attribution?

    “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 Angelina Eng, vice president of measurement and attribution at IAB and IAB Tech Lab. In less than two years, many publishers, advertisers, data vendors and technology platforms will need to reevaluate […]

  • First-Party Data Was Never Enough For Marketers. That’s Glaringly Obvious Now.

    “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 Solomon, chief growth officer at Lotame. Mid-30s cord-cutter woman lives in the city, eats out regularly, shops at high-end stores. Two-car family of four lives in the burbs, commutes […]

  • Media-Buying Strategies Must Adapt In Times Of Crisis

    “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 Rémi Lemonnier, co-founder at Scibids. Intelligence, success and even survival are often determined by one’s ability to adapt to change. The current crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and protests […]

  • Google Experiments Hint At Cookie-Free 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 Martin Kihn, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud.  In late April, Google announced in-market tests for some of the proposals in its Privacy Sandbox, where the cookie-free web is […]

  • No Going ‘Back’

    “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 Doug Weaver, founder and CEO at Upstream Group. Throughout this pandemic many of us have managed our vision of the future by making it about the past. We talk about […]

  • How Should Buyers Approach A Programmatic Reopening?

    “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 Mario Diez, CEO at Peer39. Programmatic spending has slouched as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, and with more than half of global brands planning to freeze ad spend for the next […]

  • Free Reach, Fact-Checking And Platform Responsibility

    “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 Joshua Lowcock, chief digital and global brand safety officer at UM Worldwide. Twitter’s decision to flag one of President Trump’s tweets with a fact-check has set a precedent for how social media […]

  • Allison Schiff, senior editor, AdExchanger

    Why Won’t Mark Zuckerberg Give Ground On Trump’s Posts? Because He Doesn’t Want 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 Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. Mark Zuckerberg sees himself as a defender of free speech. His detractors consider […]

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