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  • Native May Sink Before It Sails

    “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. Last December, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released a native advertising playbook to establish a common framework for the industry. Since then, native has become […]

  • Video Ad Targeting Isn’t Behavioral Because It’s Not Direct-Response

    “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 Greg Smith, vice president of programmatic at Tremor Video. Display ads are most commonly used for direct-response campaigns that rely on behavioral targeting. Video ads, by contrast, generally do not […]

  • We’re Overpromising And Underdelivering Again

    “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 Joel Nierman, vice president of digital and media strategy at Liquidus. I only remember a few things from back when I started in this business a decade ago as an […]

  • Advertisers Taking Programmatic In-House Is Short-Sighted

    “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, COO at Goodway Group. I see a concerning pattern forming in the marketplace. Agencies are bracing for change as advertisers heavy up on programmatic, often in-house, according to a […]

  • In the Facebook Age, It’s Time for Publishers To Face Facts

    “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 Terri Walter, chief marketing officer at PubMatic. If you hang out with publishers and others in the media business long enough, you’re going to hear one question come up for discussion […]

  • Consumers Need The Inside Track On Privacy

    “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 Lisa Joy Rosner, chief marketing officer at Neustar. The behavioral advertising train has left the station. It’s speeding along with customers’ data as its freight. Not all customers, however, want to go […]

  • Brands Need To Move Past Groundhog Day

    “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, entrepreneur-in-residence at Highland Capital Partners. In the movie “Groundhog Day,” Phil Connors, played by Bill Murray, meets his high school classmate, Ned Ryerson, over and over again while […]

  • Vacation Nation: Marketing to Summer Travelers

    “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 Eli Portnoy, president at Thinknear by Telenav. Summer. It’s a magical time of year when it’s a little easier to get away from work for a stress-free vacation. And no […]

  • Open RTB Needs Its Own Bloomberg Terminal

    “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 Engroff, chief digital media officer at The Media Kitchen and managing partner at kbs Ventures. It has become fashionable in media circles to compare the programmatic media market to […]

  • The Risk Of Clicking Facebook’s Social Plugin

    “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 technology, digital media and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. When developing an interactive campaign or product, incorporating social plug-ins is generally a quick […]

  • Gaming The Attribution System

    “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 Seph Zdarko, head of attribution initiatives and partner strategy at Quantcast. Attribution models were designed with the best of intentions: to help advertisers understand which ads lead their users to convert and […]

  • Cross-Channel Video Ad Campaigns May Be Key To Millennials’ Hearts

    “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 Kogan, co-founder and CEO at Headway Digital. I have a piece of vital advice for brand marketers everywhere: It is time to embrace programmatic video campaigns, or risk going […]

  • Does Online Advertising Actually Work?

    “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 Gough, vice president of media solutions at dunnhumby. As the IAB announced $11.6 billion in online advertising spending for the first quarter alone this year, the inevitable question arose: […]

  • Math For Marketers: Why Attribution Is Upside-Down

    “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 Geraghty, senior vice president of advanced analytics and decision sciences at 360i. There’s an old space race story that NASA spent $2 million to develop an anti-gravity pen, while […]

  • Do Digital Media Agencies Have a Plan?

    “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, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Digital agencies used to get paid for unpacking an incredibly complicated digital landscape for marketers. Faced with all kinds […]

  • With Display In Decline, Marketers Are Searching Elsewhere

    “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 Peter Davies, chief revenue officer at ROKT. Digital is constantly changing. The promises of programmatic Internet display advertising are not being fulfilled, according to my conversations with marketers around the world. As a […]

  • The Rise Of The Programmatic Media Specialist

    “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. A media agency’s core DNA has traditionally fed a model built around the media planner. In recent years, agencies have received much criticism for […]

  • Who are Programmatic’s True Constituents? It’s Not Just the 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 Dax Hamman, chief product officer of Chango. When we think of programmatic and whom it’s supposed to serve, we tend to focus on the brands. What are their goals? And […]

  • Last-Click Attribution Is Not A Hard Habit To Break

    “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. It’s been said that the easier the habit, the harder it is to change. That must be why nearly […]

  • Apple’s New Push To Randomize MAC Addresses: What’s The Impact On 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 Devin Guan, vice president of engineering at Drawbridge. In the weeks since Apple previewed iOS 8 in June, there has been a lot of talk in the digital advertising industry […]

  • Is Digital Marketing The Next Candidate For ‘Friction Disruption’?

    “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 Jeff Lunsford, CEO at Tealium. “Who are you disrupting?” entrepreneurs are almost inevitably asked in conversations with press and venture capitalists. “Whose margins are you feeding off of? What industry […]

  • Location Precision: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

    “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 Lenaghan, head of data science at PlaceIQ. There’s been a lot of talk lately about “precision” and “accuracy” in the world of mobile marketing. But it’s becoming clear that […]

  • Fútbol, Football And A Move Past Last-Touch 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 Jeff Green, founder and CEO at The Trade Desk. While I joined my fellow Americans in catching World Cup fever, I couldn’t help but lose some steam after the US […]

  • Who’s Afraid Of The Open Exchanges?

    “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. Programmatic buying has always been dogged by the reputation that it accesses remnant inventory from less desirable publishers – […]

  • Ad Tech’s Mortgage 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 Brett Wilson, co-founder and CEO at TubeMogul. In the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis, public attention centered on a single question: How the hell did that happen? Years later, […]

  • National Advertisers Should Take Pointers From Local 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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. National advertisers are often thought of as the most sophisticated users of programmatic technology, and for good reason. As some of the biggest spenders, […]

  • Why Marketers Struggle With Cross-Platform Programmatic

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brian Mikalis, senior vice president of monetization at Pandora. In general, I’m a huge fan of making the buying and selling of digital ads more efficient and effective. This desire to continually evolve and improve […]

  • Advertising Fraud: It’s Time For Asymmetrical Warfare

    “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 Ted McConnell, an independent consultant in the digital marketing space. Many Internet industry players are chiming in about how to fight ad fraud, but the scope, scale and capability of […]

  • The New Star Of The Shopper Marketing Suite

    “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 Jason Young, CEO at Crisp Media. If you work in shopper marketing today, take note: Mobile will do to your business what the Web did to direct response. To see […]

  • Placeability: Key To Measuring The Accuracy And Legitimacy Of Mobile Signals

    “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. The use of location data as a signal for content messaging, user functionality and context targeting continues to grow. At the same […]

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