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  • Share Of Attention: Advertising’s Newest Time-Based Metric

    “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 Marc Guldimann, CEO at Sled Mobile. Viewability, the concept that advertising should be seen to be paid for, has taken the advertising industry by storm. It’s interesting to read the […]

  • Data: Define The Rules, Seize The Opportunity

    “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 Thaer Namruti, European strategy director at Acxiom. Before you can score points in any game, you need to know the rules. How is “winning” or “success” defined? In data-driven marketing, some […]

  • Focus On Customers, Not Technology

    “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 Gilliard, general manager, Americas, at AdTruth, which is part of Experian Marketing Services. The role of technology in marketing is dramatically changing. It began with interdependent tools that solved […]

  • Optimization: A Journey, With No Silver Bullet

    “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 Erik Weiss, chief revenue officer at Datacratic. One of the biggest benefits of digital advertising is the ability to use performance metrics. Attribution may be disputable but some campaign conversion […]

  • Second-Party Data About To Go Mainstream

    “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 Sands, CEO at Signal. For two decades, ad tech has heavily depended on third-party data, collected and aggregated by vendors across multiple websites or offline sources. It’s plentiful, but […]

  • We Need Clearer Fraud Definitions, More Standardized Measurement

    “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 Kathy Leake, CEO at Qualia. Buyers and sellers agree that ad impression fraud is a huge issue. Yet no one has agreed on how to define, identify and counter fraud, […]

  • Getting The DMP Integration Right

    “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 Dominic Satur, US platform director at Flashtalking. Data-driven marketing is only as strong as the ability to ingest, model and apply the data at our fingertips. But as adoption of data-management […]

  • Interoperability: The Health of Your Marketing Stack Depends On 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 Marc Grabowski, CEO at Iris Mobile. It recently dawned on me that the entire world would be dramatically improved if more global leaders had a marketing tech or automation background. […]

  • Apple, Facebook And Firefox Prepare To Bury The Banner Ad

    “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 Bob Gilbreath, co-founder and president of Ahalogy. When Apple recently announced it would allow a downloadable ad-blocking extension in its upcoming iOS9 release, I clicked to read the coverage at PC Magazine. I […]

  • Buy-Side Guarantees Only Prolong Our Viewability 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 Brian d’Alessandro, senior vice president of digital intelligence at Dstillery. Despite their allure, buy-side guarantees of 100% ad viewability will not solve our industry’s ad viewability problem. I believe these […]

  • Google’s Jedi Mind Trick: These Are Not The Ads You’re Looking For

    “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 Rosenberg, senior vice president of marketing at 140 Proof. As we wander around the web, there are so many ads talking, blinking and popping out at you that it […]

  • Calling Out Suppliers of Fraudulent Inventory Will Go A Long Way

    “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. We have increasingly become familiar with jaw-dropping, disheartening stats around digital advertising fraud. A recent study suggests that there is […]

  • Smart Marketers Can Use Data To Build Trust

    “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 Milen Mahadevan, senior vice president and head of client solutions and capabilities at 84.51°. Data is amazing. It will transform your business and create demand by connecting with customers better. […]

  • An Ad Tech Temperature Check

    “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. Clayton Christensen, the father of “disruptive innovation,” would love the ad technology industry. With more than 2,500 Lumascape companies across various […]

  • Will Programmatic Make Audio Advertising The Next Big Thing?

    “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 Evan Krauss, vice president of emerging solutions at PubMatic. With 160 million people in the US listening to digital audio every day, advertisers’ ears are perking up at the possibilities. […]

  • With Ad Blocking Growing, What Rights Do Publishers And Advertisers 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 Victor Malachard, CEO at Byyd. In what many regarded as a litmus test for the advertising industry, a court in Germany ruled last month against two publishers, Die Zeit and […]

  • Ad Tech Salespeople Need A Common Parlance For 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 written by Adam Chandler, senior vice president of revenue at Rubicon Project’s Buyer Cloud. As more brands discuss in-house automation strategies, there is an increasing need to educate brand marketers on the […]

  • In Today’s Scam-Plagued Ad Industry, Where Will Fraudsters Win?

    “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. It was abundantly clear at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads I/O conference last week that fraud will continue to plague the industry for the foreseeable future. Its […]

  • Smart Cities May Be A Godsend For Data-Driven Marketers – If They Maintain Trust

    “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 Weston, CEO at Profusion. Imagine a world where every movement is tracked and analyzed. Businesses know everyone’s route to work, shopping habits, places they’ve eaten and socialized and friends, […]

  • It's Too Early For Bulletproof Viewability

    “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 Rostkowski, president at Varick Media Management.  Viewability has become a major issue in online advertising, having come to represent advertisers’ fear and lack of trust in digital. Brands want […]

  • Is Ad Blocking Akin To Theft?

    “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 Josh Speyer, CEO at AerServ. Israeli startup Shine recently made waves in the mobile ad tech world with its ad blocking platform, which enables users to remove ads from the […]

  • Fighting For Short-Term Gain On Viewability Will Hurt Long-Term

    “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 Michele Appello, director of business solutions at Improve Digital. What makes an ad viewable? Your answer may differ based on whether you work on the buy side or the sell […]

  • Why Programmatic Budgets Will See Massive Growth

    “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 Picard, vice president of strategic partnerships at MediaMath. There was a time when advertising was a game of statistical assumptions about the types of people who were consuming media. […]

  • Can’t Marketing Tech Vendors And Agencies Just Get Along?

    “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 Mendel Senf, CEO at Yieldr. There’s been plenty of commentary on the problems that exist within digital advertising, spanning from fraud and viewability issues to opaque practices and brand safety […]

  • Where Did All The Marketers Go?

    “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 Patrick Hounsell, executive vice president and chief digital officer at Merkle. I was at an industry conference recently. It was another in a long line of events where one smart industry […]

  • Please Stop Calling It ‘Currency’

    “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 Amihai Ulman, founder and chief operating officer at Mass Exchange. Every couple of years, the industry develops an infatuation with a new topic. Today’s infatuation: describing the current media trading […]

  • Programmatic Requires A Dynamic Approach To 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 Paul Longo, managing director at Accordant Media. Every brand has a checklist when it comes to its programmatic media strategy. Right time – check. Right place – check. Right message – […]

  • With Data Becoming A Currency, Brands Need To Sharpen Their Analytics Skills

    “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 Finn Faldi, CEO at Trueffect. Data has become the modern-day currency for brands to maintain a competitive advantage. As a result, brands have increasingly built entire infrastructures – a combination of […]

  • The Ad Tech And Mar Tech Convergence Accelerates

    “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 Louis Moynihan, vice president of strategic alliances at Demandbase. Last year, I declared the convergence of ad tech and marketing tech to be a key theme of 2014. Since then, […]

  • Dynamic Audiences Beat Dynamic Ads

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. Dynamic ads, where the ad shown to a particular user reflects products viewed or pages visited, have been a popular mainstay of programmatic advertising […]

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