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  • 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. […]

  • Beware Of The Risks Of Using A Single Demand-Side Platform (Part 1)

    “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 Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. This is Part 1 of a 2-part series. In Part 1, I will make the […]

  • Google's Exchange Is A Threat To Buyers And Sellers Of Display Media

    “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. Local, hyper-local, super-mega-hyper-local….it’s the new black. 2010 and 2011 are shaping up to be the turning point of local advertisers buying into display […]

  • Is It A Pony Or A Hand Puppet? Enhancing Brand Safety Through Real-Time Bidding

    “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. “If it is in fact a hand puppet, which finger is the head of the pony?”  This question nicely sums up the brand […]

  • Ad Tags and Stove Pipes

    “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 Mike Lewis, President and Co-Founder of Ad-Juster, an ad server discrepancy management company. Whether relaying target coordinates of hostile and friendly forces on a battlefield or passing […]

  • Does Content = Audience Online?

    “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. When watching an NFL or NASCAR event on TV, you expect that most of the commercials aired will be for beer, restaurants, shavers, […]

  • DSPs Are Not Just Cookie Monsters

    “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 Andy Monfried, CEO at Lotame. There’s been a lot of chatter in the marketplace of late on the evolving nature of DSPs, networks, SSPs, agencies, and data providers.  […]

  • Is A Demand-Side Platform The Future Of The Ad Network?

    “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. Demand Side Platforms (DSP) are hot! I can tell by the huge agency interest, and even more eager venture capitalists anxious to get […]

  • Your DSP Has RTB

    “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. Last week the folks at Admeld threw a tremendous event on the topic of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) at the […]

  • Understanding Your Data Rights

    “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 Ken Rona, PhD, V.P. Data Strategy and Client Analytics at [x+1]. Over the last couple of years, I have been in the data business, selling and buying, […]

  • Who Owns The 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 Scott Portugal, CRO at TRAFFIQ. Audience targeting has come a long way, baby. In the last 5 years, we’ve evolved from simple intra-site and intra-network retargeting to advanced, […]

  • Not Every Demand-Side Platform (DSP) Is Created Equal: What Is A True DSP?

    “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 Nat Turner, CEO, at Invite Media. If you asked a group of people in the display industry to pick the biggest theme for display in 2010, I […]

  • Are Data-Driven Opportunities for Ad Agencies Passing Them By?

    “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 Brad Terrell is VP and General Manager of Digital Media at Netezza, a data warehouse and analytic appliances company. Agency holding firms face significant strategic and operational […]

  • Winning In An Ad Exchange World

    “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 Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. Over the last two years, ad exchanges have brought an unprecedented level of targeting and […]

  • Defragmenting Media With Real-Time Bidding

    “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. It would be hard not to notice that display media buying is changing dramatically. Interesting new companies are popping […]

  • Display 2.0: The 2010 Odyssey

    “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 Bill Demas, CEO of Turn Inc., a demand-side platform and ad network provider. As the first decade of the new millennium comes to a close, the online […]

  • The Real Costs of Real-Time Bidding (RTB)

    “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 CPM Advisors, an online advertising optimization company. In late 2009, the story of Real-time bidding (RTB) in the display ad space appears to […]

  • Applying Exchange Buying Strengths To The Other 90% Of Your Buy

    “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 Paul Martino, CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. There is a widely held belief in the display advertising business that the only way to reach […]

  • Why Demos?

    “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 Ken Rona, PhD, V.P. Data Strategy and Client Analytics at [x+1]. The other day, I was speaking to an ad agency about use of third-party data in […]

  • Beyond The Hype: Why Real-Time Bidding On Ad Exchanges Is Challenged

    “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 Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. As the “AdWords-ish-ness” of DoubleClick’s AdX 2.0 interface makes obvious, the goal of today’s exchanges […]

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