“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 Nelson, CEO at Omnicom Digital. Have machines become better than humans at making decisions in marketing? As the amount of technology and data goes up, does the importance of […]
“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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. After spending three days wandering the halls of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I left with a few major takeaways. First, although […]
“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 Oisin Lunny, senior market development manager at OpenMarket. Our love affair with mobile devices shows no signs of diminishing. There are already more mobile devices on the planet than human […]
“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 Bedford, CEO at MultiView. Are you more likely to die of thirst in the middle of the ocean or a desert? It’s a trick question, because while the ocean […]
“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 Rahul Bafna, vice president of product management at Drawbridge. The biggest opportunities for brands and advertisers still live offline. People may be using the Internet more than ever before, but […]
“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 Justin Choi, CEO at Nativo. The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s recent update to the OpenRTB guidelines (PDF), which incorporate dynamic in-feed ad units, is generating lots of noise around programmatic, real-time […]
“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 Ariel Napchi, founder and CEO at Hiro Media. In recent months, several major programmers have taken steps toward adding over-the-top (OTT) content services to their capabilities, rivaling the traditional television […]
“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 Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Fraud is the ad industry’s not-so-secret problem. It impacts publishers just as much as advertisers. Advertisers have finite budgets to spend filling placements each year, […]
“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 Gerard Broussard, principal at Pre-Meditated Media. The transformation of TV from a blast-the-masses medium to a laser beam ad-targeting mechanism seems destined to accelerate over the next couple of years. […]
“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. We can thank the long struggle between advertisers and agencies for the fee structure used throughout today’s online advertising industry. […]
“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. Retailers need to build mobile phone applications. Users have shifted their digital time allocation to mobile devices, making an application the only way they […]
“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, vice president of product strategy at Varick Media Management. In digital media, change is constant, and in the past five years we’ve seen radical shifts in how 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 Nii A. Ahene, chief operating officer at CPC Strategy. Two large and powerful players dominate today’s digital advertising world: Facebook, which owns social advertising and has emerged as a big […]
“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 Baer, founder of Convince & Convert. Monetizing a revenue-starved app requires a delicate balance of creativity and business savvy. Companies need to sell ads to make money, but they […]
“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. There are many pricing models in advertising, including cost per mille (CPM), cost per impression (CPI), cost per click (CPC) and cost per action (CPA), […]
“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 Stocki, vice president of digital services at Experian Marketing Services. Within ad tech, it’s no secret that the demand for quality talent far exceeds the supply. What was once […]
“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 Dax Hamman, chief product officer of Chango. If you’re a digital marketer, you likely understand the basics of retargeting, at the very least. If you don’t, tell no one. 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 Khalid Razzaq, vice president of product management at Pixalate. Programmatic advertising’s trust deficit is on the verge of becoming an inescapable conversation. As the chorus rises around issues of quality, […]
“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 Randy Cooke, vice president of programmatic TV at SpotXchange. Television advertising has always been a relationship sell, but sometime during the late ’90s, technologies designed to streamline operations and facilitate […]
“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 Vitaly Pecherskiy, co-founder and chief operating officer at StackAdapt. I see a massive disconnect between the buzz surrounding programmatic native and the reality. In the past few years, we’ve seen […]
“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, co-founder and CEO at TripleLift. The idea that most consumers directly engage with digital advertising – even if it resonates with them – is a fiction built purely […]
“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 of Simpli.fi. The promise of one-to-one marketing has long been a goal of many advertisers. You could argue that site retargeting efforts achieve one-to-one in programmatic […]
“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 Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. In the heady days that preceded the first dot-com bust, we saw an inkling of the M&A fever that would define our modern […]
“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 Smutny, vice president of strategy at Sojern. As a marketer, my goal is to make ads as relevant as content so consumers say, “Wow. That was really helpful.” This […]
“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 client solutions at dunnhumbyUSA. Not long ago, the customer journey was straightforward and predictable. If we needed things, we’d leave our homes and head 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 Ian Hewetson, vice president of client services at Eyereturn Marketing. In the ongoing debate over traffic quality, there’s something few people are talking about: the supply-side choice to continue using […]
“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 Mayer, chief marketing officer at Trueffect. At a conference years ago, I heard Paul Ryan, Overture’s former chief technology officer, debate the benefits of optimizing to the return on […]
“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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Since the emergence of digital media, the relationship between brands and consumers has shifted from one-sided messages pushed from brands to consumers […]
“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 Glanz, co-founder and CEO at Crosswise. The ability to recognize users across devices is a hot topic in the data-driven advertising ecosystem. Some expected that web-focused marketers, agencies and 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 Hilmi Ozguc, founder and CEO at Swirl. Beacons, those small wireless devices used to trigger delivery of location-specific mobile content, have moved out of the lab and into the mainstream. […]
