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  • Match Rates Are A Red Herring

    “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 Tom Phillips, CEO at Dstillery. We hear a lot about device match rates these days. Maybe too much. It started a few years ago, when the advertising industry decided it […]

  • A Sound Check For Digital 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 Marc Rossen, senior director of digital attribution at MarketShare. I am an audiophile. I enjoy music, especially the quality of music. As an audiophile, I have come to appreciate the […]

  • Mobile: Still A Pain Point For The Buy Side

    “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 Christopher Hansen, president at Netmining. The industry initially treated mobile like a silo in the rush to get ads onto devices. Marketers, eager to leverage these new devices, pushed agencies to […]

  • Native Programmatic Will Scale When Everyone Loosens Up

    “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 Giles Goodwin, co-founder and president of product and technology at Flite. Display advertising had almost been written off when native advertising made its mark against a backdrop of controversy. While […]

  • Who Should Own Customer 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 Brooks Bell, founder and CEO of Brooks Bell Inc. Businesses capture mountains of data and increasingly use it to make smarter decisions. Customer data has become a valuable asset for […]

  • My Customer, My Friend

    “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 Nishat Mehta, executive vice president of global partnerships at dunnhumby. Consumers further consolidated the number of retailers they invested in last year, shopping at fewer stores than in the past, […]

  • Facebook And Twitter Will Dominate Display Ads in Two Years (Or Less)

    “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 Buch, CEO at SocialWire. Off-network ads from Twitter and Facebook are poised to transform the display ad industry and disrupt many exchanges that have dominated the display market for […]

  • The Forgotten Side Of 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 Matt Scharf, manager of display media operations and analytics at Adobe. The topic of viewability has infiltrated our lives. Viewability vendors flood the marketplace as marketers take steps to measure […]

  • Why Mobile And Cross-Screen Strategies Clash (And How To Fix Them)

    “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 Ernie Cormier, CEO at Nexage. At first blush, there are two strategic imperatives in digital advertising that appear to conflict. First, marketers are catching up to the massive consumer shift […]

  • In Defense Of The GRP

    “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 Benjamin Masse, vice president and general manager, a2x, at Triton Digital. The advertising industry has changed dramatically in recent years. The digital age and vast array of audience-tracking data has […]

  • The Not-So-Secret Agent’s Dilemma

    “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, a consultant at AudienceScience. Lately, trade pundits are predicting the disintermediation of agencies at the hands of digital. Indeed, like Jurassic Park, the ecosystem will produce outcomes no […]

  • How Device Recognition Can Make Marketing Campaigns Better

    “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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. The proliferation of connected electronics has spurred new interest in device-recognition technologies even though they have been […]

  • Zoom Out: Go Beyond Hyper-Local

    “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. We’ve all heard the hype about hyperlocal marketing. This kind of mobile targeting allows brands to reach consumers on mobile devices and […]

  • Let’s Be Clear About Transparency

    “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. If you search Google for “transparency + ad tech,” you’ll get more than 20 million search results. Nearly every network, DSP and publisher claims […]

  • Workflow Automation Is About To Get Interesting

    “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. Programmatic RTB has seen the lion’s share of venture capital funding and an enormous amount of innovation, yet RTB […]

  • Native Ads That Make You Go Postal

    “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 Sacha Xavier Reich, partner, media and innovation director for Neo@Ogilvy. It’s funny that they call it native advertising because it is anything but indigenous. Native advertising can be described as ads […]

  • The Business Case for Cost-Per-Thousand

    “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. In a recent column, Criteo CEO Jean-Baptiste Rudelle opined about the virtues of cost-per-click (CPC). I think he was right about the challenges and how […]

  • Dark Horses In The Cross-Device Targeting Race

    “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 Schwartz, CEO at ActionX. Brands are paying closer attention to the benefits of broadening their mobile-only campaigns to include multiple consumer devices. This shift in strategy reflects a growing […]

  • Agencies Need To Get Into The Boardroom (Or Die Trying)

    “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 Christopher Skinner, CEO at MakeBuzz. I’ve said before that IBM and other consultancies control the future of digital media because they can get better access to both client and media […]

  • If You Want To Measure Incrementality, Do It 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 Sebastien Blanc, general manager, US, at Struq. Considering the number of channels where marketers can spend their budgets, understanding and proving a return on ad spend (ROAS) is vital. If […]

  • The Business Case For Cost-Per-Click

    “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 Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, CEO and co-founder at Criteo. Digital advertising moves quickly — sometimes too quickly. The market and technology has evolved significantly over the past five years to drive the […]

  • The Innovation Paradox

    “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, general manager at Thinknear. Job listings always include requirements, such as a minimum level of experience, a degree in a related field, fluency in certain languages or residence […]

  • ETL: The Most Important Acronym You've Never Heard 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 Mike Driscoll, CEO and founder of Metamarkets. Data is the fuel and the exhaust of programmatic advertising. It informs every transaction, and every transaction generates more of it. As impression […]

  • Scale: A Third-Party Data Killer

    “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 Alan Pearlstein, CEO and co-founder of Cross Pixel Inc. A fundamental difference between offline and online data usage is associated marketing cost. Digital ads (banners) delivered to specific audiences across […]

  • Always Be Selling: TV, Social And Measurable ROI

    “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. Ah, February — the season for major television events that aren’t dominated by the trucks-and-beer crowd of the regular football season. […]

  • Find The Signal Within Big Data’s Cacophony

    “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 Juan M. Huerta, senior data scientist at PlaceIQ. It has been said that we are in an era of big data. Not a day goes by without hearing about a […]

  • Measure The Speed Of Your 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 Marcus Tewksbury, global vice president for product strategy at Experian Marketing Services. How fast is fast? Racing to a friend’s wedding on a farmland highway west of Chicago, I found out […]

  • The Dirty Secret Behind Your Media’s Price Tag

    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 Kence Anderson, CEO and founder at Apptimyze. There’s a dirty little secret in ad tech: All sorts of fees and charges are hidden in the cost of your media. Various […]

  • A New Attribution Metric To Rule Them All

    “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 Roger Barnette, president at IgnitionOne. Brand marketers have long judged success of their digital advertising by using the “soft goals” of brand engagement. Soft goals, such as reach, views and […]

  • Hello, Enterprise. Goodbye, CPM.

    “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 Alex Kelleher, founder and CEO at Cognitive Match. Advertising technology is mostly paid for on a usage basis: serve more ads, make more money. This has been true of media […]

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