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  • Mastering Content Distribution in a Cross-Channel World

    “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 Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. Today’s consumer expects a lot from her digital devices. A busy parent looking for Mario Batali’s latest […]

  • Storytelling and the Last Milliseconds

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joanna O’Connell is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Last week, I participated in AdExchanger’s first ever conference and I thought I’d use the column today to share several themes I heard over the […]

  • What Happens When Your Audience Doesn't 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 Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer at MDC Partners’ The Media Kitchen. There was a seminal study done a few years ago by comScore, Tacoda and Starcom USA called “Natural […]

  • Digital Planners: Practice 'Darwinian' Optimization

    “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 Decker, a managing director at Mindshare, a GroupM agency. Most people in the digital marketing world wouldn’t credit Albert Einstein as a founding father of digital marketing, but […]

  • 'Viewable Ads' and Brand Dollars: We've Seen This Movie Before

    “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 Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. Ever since my March column addressing viewable impressions, I’ve been tagged as “that […]

  • How Social Is Breaking Old Agency Models

    “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 Turner, General Manager of EMEA, Adaptly. The social ecosystem is waging change on traditional powerbases within the industry. Not only has power shifted back to the publisher (the […]

  • Entering the Fourth Wave of Ad Technology Innovation

    “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. Ad tech is a fascinating and constantly evolving space.  We’ve seen several ‘waves’ of evolution in ad tech over the years, and I believe […]

  • Time To Include (Digital) Out-Of-Home In Our Definition of Programmatic Media

    “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 Jeremy Ozen, cofounder of Vistar Media.  Here’s a trivia question: When and where was the first ever display ad? Some of you will answer 1994 on Hotwired.com.  That AT&T […]

  • Charting the Path to Direct Sold RTB Advertising

    “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 Tom Chavez, founder and CEO of Krux Digital. When he was running the Right Media Exchange, Ramsey McGrory posited what I call the McGrory Conjecture during a panel […]

  • Use Closed-Loop Data to Unlock Display Ad Effectiveness

    “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 Matthew Keylock, SVP, Media Partnerships at dunnhumby.  Display advertising has suffered the same ailment plaguing much of digital marketing – frequent irrelevance is easy and cheap. This trend […]

  • Location Targeting: Perception And Reality

    “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 David Shim, CEO at Placed. While there are a handful of companies close to realizing the potential of location-based targeting, as an overall industry there is a gap between […]

  • Service: A Dirty Word in Ad Tech?

    “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 Adam Berke, president at AdRoll. “We’re a technology company, but we provide managed services for large accounts.”  How many times have you heard something along those lines from […]

  • How CIOs Can Get Into the Marketing Game

    “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 Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. I’ve talked a lot about the odd couple pairing of the CMO and […]

  • Why Media Companies Are Being Eaten by Tech Companies

    “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 Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. My friend and colleague Todd Herman (LinkedIn) once wrote a strategy paper about video content when we worked together at Microsoft. Called “Don’t […]

  • The Myth of the End-to-End Ad Tech Solution

    “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 Michael Greene, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. The term “end-to-end” gets thrown around a lot in digital advertising circles and is increasingly part of the conversations we have with […]

  • You Don’t Control Your Digital Technology Decisions, M&A Does

    “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 Cameron Hulett, who is Executive Head of Solution Strategy at Acceleration. When someone is betting millions, they’ve typically done their homework. So when you see the current M&A activity in […]

  • What Behavior Are You Targeting?

    “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 happened to me a year or so ago, but it happens to millions of people […]

  • Data Does Not Kill Creativity

    “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 Marc Schwartz, who is EVP, Global Director of Performance Analytics at McCann Worldgroup. Advertising has always been about change. Evolving communication technologies are the most recent drivers of this change.  These […]

  • Attribution Move Shows Facebook Is (Finally) Listening

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joanna O’Connell is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Is Facebook finally getting over itself? Or, rather, is Facebook actually starting to realize that its place in the advertising ecosystem is just that – […]

  • Mobile Reps: Call Me, Maybe

    “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, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. The mobile media space is as exciting as it is daunting. As a digital media director, it seems there are more […]

  • Viewable Impressions And iFrames: Protecting Your Blind 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 Mark Hughes, CEO of C3 Metrics. It was a Michael Lewis book before it was a Sandra Bullock movie. Published in 2006, “The Blind Side” stated very elegantly what most football […]

  • The Evolution of 'Programmatic Buying' Into 'Programmatic Premium'

    “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 Ran Cohen, president and co-founder of Legolas Media. Programmatic Buying: The reduction (but not elimination) of human decision-making in the serving of digital ads. It promises to solve many of the […]

  • New Marketing Rules For the Age of Personalization

    “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 Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. When the “Four P’s of Marketing” were first developed by E. Jerome […]

  • Time For Alternative Attribution Models

    “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 Ronald Paul, CEO at Quisma, a European performance marketing agency and a subsidiary of WPP Group’s GroupM. When working in online advertising, if you try and evaluate individual channels […]

  • There Are No Awards For Data People In A Creative Agency

    “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 Marc Schwartz, who is EVP, Global Director of Performance Analytics at McCann Worldgroup. I recently left Cannes, where the majority of the Lions were awarded to creative agencies. Creative agencies […]

  • The Golden Age of Advertising Technology

    “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. Ad tech is over. The landscape is overcrowded, venture capitalists have moved on, and […]

  • Digital Publishers: Facebook’s Mobile Problem Is Your Problem, Too

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Michael Greene is Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. Many in the industry have watched with interest (and perhaps a bit of schadenfreude) as Facebook shares have plunged to under $27. Obviously, multiple factors […]

  • Facebook Age Calls for New Metrics

    “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 Nikhil Sethi, who is co-founder/CEO Adaptly. In the world of social media and social networks, native advertising models are taking over. Anything I can do as a consumer – […]

  • The Attribution Error

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Jeremy Stanley is SVP Product and Data Sciences for Collective. As an industry we have largely concluded that existing measurement solutions (CTR, view-through and click-through conversion) have glaring flaws. And so we have […]

  • 'Viewable Impression' Boosters Ignore Simple Math

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joshua Koran is VP Digital Product Management, Research and Data for AT&T AdWorks.  Much has been written about the “viewable impression” metric, which banishes impressions that go unnoticed by consumers. It relies on […]

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