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  • 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 […]

  • Making Transparency Real

    “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 Eric Porres, CMO at Lotame. There’s been a lot of talk lately about the need for data transparency. That makes sense: With the increasing value of data collected […]

  • The Role Of Brands In Data

    “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. It is easy to understand the role a brand can play in determining the value of media.  Assuming all things are […]

  • Why Third-Party Ad Servers Are Necessary In The Emerging DSP Market

    George Allen is Senior Product Manager, Mediaplex, an advertising technology solutions company, and a division of ValueClick. The arrival of Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) may very well signal a better way to access exchange media inventory, but if you are thinking that means doing away with your third party ad server, keep reading. DSPs have […]

  • Why Magic And Media Buying Are Not The Same Thing

    “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. Magic (illusion), the art of appearing to perform supernatural feats using sleight of hand or other methods. Building […]

  • Transparency – A New Definition

    “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. Transparency and Value, Value and Transparency. The Ying & Yang of digital media and two concepts that are embedded into nearly every conversation […]

  • Gaining Clarity in the Spot Buy

    “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 Roland Cozzolino, CTO of MediaMath, an online advertising technology company. Whenever someone wants to understand the basics of RTB, I like to tell them that they need to understand […]

  • The Power Of Your Data

    “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. For anyone who has been watching the data space over the last year and a half, the explosion of […]

  • The Emergence of Audience Selling

    “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. “So far audience targeted media optimization has been a huge party that only the demand side has shown up for. The supply side […]

  • The Advertising Value of Shopping Data: Finding Target Markets

    “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 Part II of a two-part column (Part I is here) written by Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at Akamai. Mention ‘shopping data’ to an agency […]

  • Placement Matters Because Brands Matter

    “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 recent years, the focus of online advertising has shifted toward audience targeting, using cookie data to find users anywhere across […]

  • The Advertising Value of Shopping Data: Finding In-Market Buyers

    “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 Part I of a two-part column written by Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at Akamai. Targeting is only as good as the data that you […]

  • Value Per Customer - A New Way To View Publisher Value

    “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. Real-time audience buying is currently being heralded as the next paradigm shift in our industry. Empowering agencies to leverage their own data as […]

  • Stop Paying for Fraudulent View-Throughs

    “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 Josh McFarland, CEO of TellApart, an ecommerce data and ads platform. Dear retargeting advertiser — We all agree online advertising needs a more comprehensive metric than the click.  […]

  • Is it a Mountain or a Molehill?

    “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. Since I run a venture-backed company, I spend more time with venture capitalists than any sane person should.  Of late, one topic keeps […]

  • Slow to Move: Why Inventory Centralization Is Taking More Time Than We Thought

    “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, a demand-side platform. The companies like ours that started looking at the buying-side opportunity in display in 2007 were encouraged by what […]

  • Real-Time Benefits of Semantic Knowledge

    “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, CEO at Peer39. In a world where information changes constantly, it can be a steep challenge just to keep up with the latest news and trends. […]

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