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  • As Data Explodes, B2B Marketers Must Focus On What Matters Most

    “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 Mincham, vice president and associate client partner at Merkle. There is a lot of talk about the nuances in the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing spaces and how […]

  • DMP 1-2-3

    “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. Almost every marketer is starting to lean into data management technology. Whether they are trying to build an in-house programmatic practice, […]

  • Marketers Should Worry About Math Education In The 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 John Sisson, president at Wilde Agency. Today’s marketers rely more heavily on data about their audiences so they can craft personalized messages. In marketing, analytics may have always been fundamental […]

  • Location Accuracy: Ad Exchange Data Falls Short

    “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 D. Collins, scientist at Placed. Location is a big part of mobile advertising, which is why advertisers pay more when an ad request includes the user’s location. But how […]

  • Programmatic TV Buying: The Nuance of ‘Inevitability’

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. I recently formed a small roundtable discussion on programmatic TV buying, drawn from approximately 100 sales executives, representing more than 40 cable and […]

  • For Brands, Breaking Up With Fraud Is Hard To Do

    “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. It has become overwhelmingly apparent that brand marketers have become digital crime fighters. As digital ad spend continues to rise […]

  • Finding Brand Purpose Amid A Proliferation Of Channels 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 Chris Gomersall, CEO at Atomized. It feels like the only consistent trend in marketing today is the never-ending race to catch up. An explosion of new media platforms has created […]

  • When Evaluating Cross-Device Graph Technology, Look Beyond Match Accuracy

    “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 Rajiv Maheshwari, cross-device technology leader at Neustar. With consumers increasingly accessing content and shopping via multiple devices, multiscreen and cross-device identity have become critical to advertisers. It offers a unified […]

  • What’s Holding Back Programmatic In Latin America?

    “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 Victor Lopez, programmatic media director at Affiperf. Latin America is not usually in the spotlight for the latest ad tech happenings. But as with many types of technology, developing countries […]

  • Advertisers: Manage Consumer Data Like Financial 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 Tim Webster, chief strategy officer and co-founder at The Exchange Lab. Consumer data collection and privacy are increasingly hot topics as the world becomes more entwined with the technology and […]

  • You Are What You Buy

    “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 Allen Mason, vice president of strategy at 84.51°.  On a recent drive home, I wondered how data would define my family vs. the roughly 50 families that live in my […]

  • When Automation Isn’t The Answer

    “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 Opher Kahane, co-founder and CEO at Origami Logic. Not too long ago, marketing circles were abuzz with the looming death of creative Don Draper-types. With the surge in programmatic advertising, […]

  • The Dark Side 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 Steve Latham, CEO at Encore Media Metrics. First, here’s the good news: Mobile will be the freight train that drives the media industry. Now, the bad news: The lack of […]

  • Viewable Yet Unseen: It's Time For New Engagement Metrics

    “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 Phil Schraeder, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at GumGum. Being viewable and being seen are not the same. Yet today’s engagement measurement metrics do not take this key […]

  • A Simplified Ad Tech Stack: The Key To Protecting Working Media

    “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 Oleg Korenfeld, senior vice president of ad tech and platforms at Mediavest USA. It may sound simplistic, but what is the most expensive thing marketers pay for? It’s not the […]

  • Advertisers Need to Gear Up for Next-Gen Technology (And Its 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 Dhawal Mujumdar, founder at AdsNative. The only way to create the ads of the future is by staying on top of emerging trends. Digital advertising needs to keep pace in […]

  • Standardization And Imagination Can End Programmatic’s Creative Wasteland

    “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 Murphy, vice president of programmatic at RhythmOne. The challenge of developing impactful creative that can scale across the programmatic environment is one of the biggest limitations to wider adoption. […]

  • What The Past Says About The Future 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 Martin Kihn, research director at Gartner. Despite what you’ve heard, this is not the first generation to face the rush of disruption, crumbling institutions and fortunes made by mysterious engineers. […]

  • Identity-Powered Tech May Determine The Future Of 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 Paul Turner, chief commercial officer at Adbrain. The ability to specifically identify audiences online has proven to be a lucrative and effective prize for advertisers, publishers and the tech layer […]

  • Thank You Second-Price Auctions, For Getting Us This Far

    “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 Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Every major ad exchange uses second-price auctions, yet almost no major ad exchange really uses second-price auctions. Sell-side platforms have created yield-enhancing technologies, such as […]

  • Email Marketers Must Be Portfolio Managers

    “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 Jose Cebrian, vice president and general manager of email and mobile messaging at Merkle. Data-driven marketing has multiple meanings. In the traditional definition, marketers use data to drive their decisions. […]

  • Rich Media Could Be The Hardest Hit In The Flash Fallout

    “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 Gal Barnea, chief technology officer at Eyeview. Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a massive shift in the Flash and HTML5 balance as more Flash security flaws are exposed […]

  • How Can We Overcome Programmatic’s Principal-Agent Problem?

    “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 Kirk McDonald, president at PubMatic. Many in the programmatic world shamelessly borrow strategies, tactics and even language from the world of finance. Some companies have “tickers” on their websites that […]

  • Rising Above The Average: The Economics Of Performance Media 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 Mark Syal, joint managing director and director of media practice, EMEA, at Essence. Averages can hide a multitude of sins. As a media planner, you need to know that every […]

  • Automotive Brands Offer Early Road Map For Location-Based 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 Loren Hillberg, president and general manager at Thinknear by Telenav. Automotive marketing has long been organized into three well-established tiers, comprising a system that offers interesting lessons for other industries. […]

  • Are We Losing What It Means To Be Human In Our Quest For Programmatic Efficiency?

    “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 Will Doherty, vice president of business development at Index Exchange. As part of its recent Artificial Intelligence work, Google has been having conversations with its machines. Human: What is the […]

  • Ad Fraudsters’ Next Major Target: 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 Ephraim (Jeff) Bander, president and chief revenue officer at Sticky. The global mobile advertising market will hit two significant milestones in 2016, according to eMarketer: It will surpass $100 billion […]

  • Is Advertising Technology Making People’s Lives Easier?

    “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 Rachael Hadaway, vice president of media solutions at 84.51°.  The speed at which data and technology has been deployed to enable advertising functions over the last five years is astonishing. […]

  • Viewability: Let’s End The Numbers Game

    “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 Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. Viewability. It’s a phrase tossed back and forth in sales meetings, delivered solemnly by speakers pacing conference stages and increasingly mandated by brands in their […]

  • The Real Value of “Non-Working” Dollars in Digital Advertising

    “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 Julia Amorim, CEO at MediaNet. As with traditional advertising mediums, marketers who invest in digital and programmatic advertising make a distinction between working and non-working dollars, which combined make up […]

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