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  • This Year, Social M&A Will Venture Into The Enterprise

    “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 Jessica Luterman Naeve, Managing Director at DeSilva & Phillips Media Investment Bankers. 2012 was a big year for social media – big multiples and headline deals – a testament […]

  • DSPs Vs. Personalized Retargeters. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

    “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 Tal Keinan, CEO of AdExtent. Personalized retargeting has become its own frothy category, with many pure-play personalized retargeting vendors seeking to solve the technology and media problem of doing […]

  • Shiny New Toys (Or: Data Comes From The Darndest Things)

    “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 Kyle Barber, SVP Global Performance Lead at McCann Worldgroup. The holidays are a wonderful time to catch up with family, unwind, eat a little too much.  Yet all I’ve been hearing […]

  • Why Viewable Impressions Won’t Matter

    “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 Calic, Chief Revenue Officer at The Media Trust. Based on the velocity of articles written on the topic last year, “viewable impressions” has displaced “ad verification” as the […]

  • How Newspapers Can Save Themselves

    “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 Andy Monfried, CEO of Lotame.  Old-school newspaper people are generally hard working, gritty, risk taking, roll-up-your-sleeve folks who aren’t afraid to go the extra mile. They will do anything to […]

  • Is Ad Avoidance Inevitable?

    “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 Rob Leathern, CEO of social advertising platform Optim.al.  Like many in our industry, I have a love/hate relationship with advertising. Even though I’m an ad technology entrepreneur, I actively […]

  • Evolution, Not Revolution At CES

    “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 Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer of The Media Kitchen and President of kbs+p Ventures, both of which are part of MDC Partners. AdExchanger asked Herman to give us […]

  • The Emergence of Engagement

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Dan Grigorovici is CEO at AdMobius. If brands and agencies are ever expected to invest significant dollars in mobile then it’s time for the industry to get serious about measurement. While it’s true that progress […]

  • Resolving For The Future

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Terence Kawaja is Founder and CEO at LUMA Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on the digital media sectors. In lieu of making the ubiquitous end of year Top 10 lists or predictions, […]

  • 2013 Will Bring A Talent Correction in Digital Media Sales

    “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 Adam Chandler, CRO in Residence at Lerer Ventures. This fall, a number of companies, most notably Federated Media, announced sales force downsizings. In the process, these companies began what I expect […]

  • The Power Of The First-Party Consumer Relationship

    “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 Gordon McLeod, president of Krux Digital. I recently hosted an event for media industry friends where famed photographer Rick Smolan, co-creator of the just-released The Human Face of Big […]

  • Online Video GRPs Place Undue Burden on Publishers

    “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 Mark Trefgarne, CEO of LiveRail, a provider of a supply-side platform for video. The need for online GRPs has come clearly into focus this year. Solutions like ComScore VCE, DoubleVerify […]

  • We Will All Be Carpenters in 2013

    “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. It’s been a long time coming. Those of us in the industry, both as creators and the […]

  • The Unstructured Data Challenge

    “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 Matthew Keylock, SVP, Media Partnerships at dunnhumby.  Within an industry rapidly becoming obsessed with unstructured data, are we losing our focus? Unstructured data, data from customer emails, social media, video, and […]

  • Constructing the 'Professional Graph'

    “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 Lieber, VP of Business Development at GraphEffect. Advertisers, welcome to the “professional graph.” LinkedIn recently announced the launch of its Ads API, which will allow developers to build […]

  • Barriers to Benchmarking, And How Agencies Can Overcome 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 Kyle Barber, SVP Global Performance Lead at McCann Worldgroup. While on vacation in Turkey this past week, I vacillated between aimlessly wandering the streets one day to carefully researching the possibilities […]

  • 2012: A Year that Surprised 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 by  Jay Seideman, Director of Sales, Exchange and Targeting, Microsoft Advertising  The holidays are upon us, and it is that time of year when we can reflect on the past 12 […]

  • Online Marketing: Top Trends for 2013

    “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 Sid Shah, Director of Business Analytics for Advertising Solutions, Adobe.  A combination of established trends and new technology innovations will cause 2013 to be an eventful year for digital marketing. Here […]

  • A Viewability Technology Primer, Part 2: Vendor Selection & Applications

    “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 the second installment in a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Part I is here). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions […]

  • A Viewability Technology Primer, Part 1: Promises & Pitfalls

    “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 part one of a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Read part 2). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions Implementation […]

  • Market Research Goes Social

    “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 Laura O’Shaughnessy, CEO of SocialCode. Today’s social advertising campaigns and branded social communities reach tens of thousands, even millions of people. Brands now benefit from cultivated communities that act on special […]

  • Advancing The 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 John Nardone, CEO at [x+1]. It has been argued that the proliferation of ad technologies over the last few years has not really advanced our industry. Moreover, some suggest […]

  • How Big Data Sparks Creativity And Culture In Startup Land

    “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 Keller, Chief Operating Officer at LinkSmart. Green arrows up. Red arrows down. The distillation of large amounts of data into simple information that users can understand and take […]

  • You Say You Don’t Want a Revolution?

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Mendez, CEO and founder of Yieldbot. “It’s still day one (for the Internet). The alarm clock hasn’t even gone off. We haven’t even hit the snooze alarm. […]

  • Beauty of Digital GRPs Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

    “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 Haley, Chief Scientist at Videology. Verification is good. Everyone wants to know that what they bought is what they got. With regard to online video, for years the […]

  • Adding To The Brand Conversation

    “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 Mukund Ramachandran, General Manager, Brand Advertising Solutions, DataXu. Over the summer, Bob Arnold of Kellogg started a column called Brand Aware on AdExchanger. Bob wrote something everyone in digital marketing can relate to: […]

  • Viewability: The Path to Less Digital Waste

    “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 Jessica Sanfilippo, group media director at 360i.  Below the fold, partial ad loads, and other related (and unwanted) occurrences on the island of misfit banners are the digital equivalents […]

  • Time For A New Mobile Ad Format

    “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, CEO at Rare Crowds. I’ve been designing, prototyping and deploying new ad formats in digital advertising for more than 15 years. I started one of the first rich […]

  • The Banner Blindness Cure: How Fewer Ads Can Equal More Revenue

    “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 Dave Zinman, CEO of Infolinks. The economics of online advertising are at best confusing and at worst completely backwards. We’ve got a zillion systems to target ads and auction […]

  • Less is More: Pricing Your Way Out of Data Congestion

    “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 Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai.  Pricing a shared asset like data can be counterintuitive. Data is a non-rival good, like a toll road.  Even though people expect to pay for and […]

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