Opinion

“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 Jennifer Pelino, vice president of omnichannel media at 84.51°. As marketing and technology converge, marketers must practice due diligence and push for greater quality control in the audience data they […]

“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 Smith, president at Kitewheel. Marketers, being marketers, are always looking to invent new names for their products to make those products seem better than previous iterations. This is most […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Yaniv Makover, co-founder and CEO at Keywee. Branded content is a major revenue driver for publishers, as illustrated by The Washington Post’s WP BrandStudio or The New York Times’ T Brand Studio, which played a […]

“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 David Danziger, vice president of enterprise partnerships at The Trade Desk. In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Juliet famously asked, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Randy Cooke, vice president of programmatic TV at SpotX. It’s not uncommon to hear conference panelists wax quixotic about how linear TV addressability will imminently become the standard of campaign fulfillment in the United […]

“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 Maor Sadra, managing director and chief revenue officer at AppLift. Within the next few years, the crowded LUMAscape will have 70% fewer logos on it, which is a good thing […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Header bidding is here to stay. So it’s time we stop talking about what the technology does for publishers and start talking about […]

“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 Ken Zi Wang, founder and CEO at Traction Labs. Twitter deserves props for closing a live-streaming partnership deal with the NFL. It beat out Facebook, Amazon and Verizon for the […]

“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 Asaf Greiner, founder and CEO at Protected Media. Online fraud is nothing new, but now there are more players. More cyber criminals are profiting, and more people are rallying behind […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. I spent the first 10 years of my career in traditional media. The past 10 have been in digital. When I made the transition I was astounded by […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. The Washington Post recently announced its new “lightning fast” mobile pages, using Google’s progressive web apps technology. Progressive web apps allow a mobile website to behave more […]

“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. The only way to get data to flow from marketing to advertising and back again is through an identity graph. The Japanese were […]

“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 Montgomery, executive vice president of brand safety at GroupM Worldwide. On Sept. 16, Sourcepoint CEO and co-founder Ben Barokas penned the column, “Where Will Facebook’s Ad Reinsertion Move Leave […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Vincent Cacace, founder and CEO at Vertebrae.io. Brands want to know their ads are being seen, by how many real humans, and how those ads help sell their products. But beyond those basics, there’s […]

“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 James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Online advertising owes its rapid growth to JavaScript tags. Finally, without serious code changes, publishers could copy and paste JavaScript and make money from ads […]

“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 Ben Barokas, co-founder and CEO at Sourcepoint. Following Facebook’s announcement last month, ad-blocking software may be rendered ineffective on the social network. With its decision to bypass blocking technology on […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Cimino, advisor and data lead for Prohaska Consulting and Altiscale. Publishers’ and brands’ segment data may flow through their data management platforms (DMP), but since they don’t own the user IDs (the platform […]

“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 Fain, co-founder and CEO at Cognitiv. In a time where big holding companies are expecting all buying to go programmatic – Dentsu is the latest – it is more […]

Quiznos is working to connect the dots between digital ad exposures and store visitation. After emerging from bankruptcy in 2014, Quiznos reduced its brick-and-mortar presence. With fewer stores, each location had to work harder. So Quiznos changed its media mix to support its new retail footprint. Although television used to be a focal point for […]

BuzzFeed set its stake in branded content back when display was king. Today, as publications derive an increasing share of their revenue from branded content, Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown sees that competition creating a market. “More awareness and education in the marketplace creates more opportunity for everyone,” Brown said. “We’re excited about our share […]

“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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. We are going to see a bunch of classic ad tech firms get funded by Chinese money in the next two years. This will result […]

“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 Bob Buch, SVP of social at Rakuten Marketing.  I recently hosted a roundtable dinner series with more than 30 marketing leaders at some of the world’s most prominent retail and […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joan FitzGerald, vice president of product management and business development at TiVo. The data-driven, highly targeted, programmatic audience buying that has been the hallmark of digital advertising is now sparking a revolution in how […]

“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 Jason Rothman, general manager, mobile and social, at SteelHouse. WhatsApp last month announced its plan to share data with Facebook, opening its doors to the marketing and advertising worlds. The […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim McGinty, senior director of content marketing at IDG. Brands churn out massive volumes of content in hopes that it resonates with their customers. At the same time, customer expectations are higher than ever […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. For the last 50 years, brand advertising has focused on building awareness, while direct response used its power to increase sales. But in a TV marketplace where […]

“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. The arms race between consumers and advertisers goes back as far as I can remember. The battle rages on with the myriad of […]

Business Insider’s sales team sells everything from programmatic to sponsored content and sponsorships. “One meeting will be focused on content creation, tentpole sponsorships and really big executions with lots of creative services layered in,” said CRO Pete Spande. “The next conversation might be about how their DMP [data management platform] connects to our DMP, and […]

“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 Nicole Ferry, partner and executive director of strategy at Sullivan. Earlier this summer, the SEC approved Investors Exchange (IEX) to become a public stock exchange, putting the pro-transparency startup squarely […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jayson Dubin, founder and CEO at Playwire. Last year, viewers spent more time watching digital video than ever before. In 2011, adults spent an average of 21 minutes watching online video every day, and by […]