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  • Does Having A Privacy Policy Matter?

    “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. David Danziger is Director of Data and Targeting Products at Acxiom Corporation. The Future of Privacy Forum recently analyzed the top 30 paid mobile apps (across multiple mobile platforms including Blackberry, Android, and iOS) […]

  • Digital Media: The Odd Man Out

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. The sciencification of advertising is on a clear, steady march toward greater and greater efficiencies, whether that be optimized cost for […]

  • All Hail the V.A.D.A.R.

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Soloff, CEO, Metamarkets, a publisher analytics company. Around the time he was busy founding a retail bank, my good friend Josh Reich offered the insight that […]

  • Why All Advertising Will Be Social – Navigating the Social Brand Map

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column 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 XA.net. XA.net’s optim.al is a Social Media Ad Platform. Names and signs were very much what early advertising was about: in the Middle […]

  • The Battle For Consumer Data

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Chavez, CEO, Krux Digital. The battle for consumer data just reached a new, much more feverish pitch. The day before yesterday, Apple announced what a lot […]

  • Why DSPs Are Not Enough

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Eric Bamberger, SVP, Performance Marketing Group, SearchIgnite, a unit of Dentsu’s Innovation Interactive. 2010 was a banner year for the Display industry – no pun intended.  Truthfully, Display has made a remarkable […]

  • Dude... Would You Please Quit It With The Financial Markets Jargon Already?

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Soloff, CEO, Metamarkets, a publisher analytics company. During the summer of 2008, I was having one of those NY business breakfasts – the kind of meal […]

  • The Drive-Time Web

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Niel Robertson, CEO of Trada, an online marketplace technology company. Driving between Boulder and Denver the other day, I did something completely old school – I turned […]

  • Why 2011 is the Year of the Ad Network; Or, Why Nobody is an Ad Exchange

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column 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 XA.net, an online advertising company. What’s an ad network anyway? Some would say: an entity that manages yield for both publishers and advertisers, […]

  • The Evolution of Our Data-Driven Ecosystem

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Darren Herman is Founder, Varick Media Management and Chief Digital Media Officer of The Media Kitchen, kbs+p. Click To Enlarge  It’s that time of year again when business and trend forecasting articles start […]

  • Display Will Overtake Search

    “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 Amiad Solomon, Founder & President at Peer39. Over the past ten years, the search advertising industry has grown tremendously. In no small part due to companies like Google […]

  • From The Data Gardener - Today’s Tip: Check Your Soil

    “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 Marc Kiven, Founder and CRO BrightTag. Fall is upon us. It’s that time of year when experienced gardeners are preparing their plants for winter. It’s what you do […]

  • Attention Economics Pricing In Advertising: Cost Per Second

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. Engagement is the unit of monetization in the ad world, yet engagement is not what is bought and sold in online […]

  • Audience? Please... Why Context is the Future of Web Monetization

    “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, founder of Yieldbot. Context comes from the Latin word contexere. The literal meaning is “joining together by weaving”. The Greeks had a word not just for […]

  • What Marketers Need To Know About Conversion Attribution

    “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 Alan Pearlstein, CEO at Cross Pixel Media. I believe that retargeting has flaws and any active participant should be aware of them before engaging in the tactic.  The […]

  • Why The Number One Issue In Retargeting Is Not Privacy

    “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 Chris Zaharias, SVP of Sales at Dapper, an online advertising technology company. Repeat after me: The #1 issue in retargeting is not privacy The #1 issue in retargeting is […]

  • A New Metric For Audience Buying And Selling: The ARPU

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. Several weeks back, I wrote an opinion piece that explored “attention economics” or the importance of impression quality in online advertising. […]

  • How We Bring Brand Dollars Online

    “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 Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. As we all know, the balance between the amount of time people spend on the internet and the online […]

  • Media Is From Mars And Creative Is From Venus

    “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 Karl Siebrecht at AdReady. “Media Is From Mars And Creative Is From Venus” Cheesy title for a column? Perhaps. Critically important topic that has been vastly underrepresented amidst […]

  • Confused Seas -And, What Ad Tech Companies Will Win In 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. Today’s column is written by Scott Portugal, CRO at TRAFFIQ. “Confused sea conditions are best avoided since there is no getting around them… Confused sea conditions occur as a result of major shifts […]

  • Personalized Retargeting Is Overkill

    “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 Alan Pearlstein, CEO at Cross Pixel Media. I have been overwhelmed by Zappos retargeting ads recently. Apparently, I am not the only one. Michael Learmonth wrote a piece […]

  • Why Prices Of Real-Time Bids Are Overinflated

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column 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 XA.net, an online advertising company. It’s a convenient fiction: the CPMs garnered from real-time bidding (RTB) are high and going higher right now, […]

  • Keywords Don't Cut It

    “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 Amiad Solomon, Founder & President at Peer39. In an effort to improve the accuracy of its search engine, Google recently acquired Metaweb, a semantic Web company with a […]

  • Today's Ad Exchanges Don't Work

    Joe Doran is a board member at Legolas Media. He was previously founding CEO of Media6Degrees and GM for Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. A few years ago, online publishers were told that salvation was just around the corner if only they’d sell their inventory on ad exchanges. Buyers would bid—in real-time no less—on available inventory […]

  • Stop Making Sense

    “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 Scott Portugal, CRO at TRAFFIQ. “We can build an DSP to manage RTB’s, leveraging data exchange segments for hyper-targeting and optimizing against CTR and eCPA to improve ROAS […]

  • Why Real-Time Bidding Wins

    “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 Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. Now that Google has bought Invite Media and publicly stated that the purchase was all about real time bidding […]

  • Attention Economics in Online Advertising

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics, a behavioral analytics platform for publishers. As Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley recently pointed out, 28% percent of consumers time is […]

  • What Ad Networks Should Focus On

    “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 Brian O'Kelley, CEO at AppNexus. Ad networks are an integral part of today’s display advertising ecosystem and I find the oft-cited reports of their demise greatly exaggerated. In […]

  • Learning To Love Remnant

    “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 Amiad Solomon, Founder & President at Peer39. Look up the word “remnant” in a dictionary and you’ll find definitions that pretty accurately describe how the word is used […]

  • Pre-emptive Brand Safety: DSP To The Rescue

    “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 Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. Nearly every online marketer is concerned with transparency and brand safety.  These seem to be the biggest roadblocks to brands embracing display.  A […]

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