“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. In the late 1990s, when the internet was still relatively new, the “content is king” mantra was an overwhelming omnipresence that eventually fell […]
“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 Hannu Verkasalo, founder and CEO at Verto Analytics. Over the past decade, one of the most important success metrics for brands and marketers has been the size of their audience […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, CEO and founder at STAQ. When I heard about the “cable wars” of the major investment banks in order to minimize latency, I completely understood. They wanted to make their fiber-cable connection […]
“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 Seph Zdarko, director of data, modeling, partnerships and attribution initiatives at Quantcast. The Oxford English Dictionary and Google tell us that the word “fraud” has Latin origin. Cheating people through criminal deception […]
“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 Noah Jessop, head of data at Liquid. A “wildcatter” is oil slang for someone who drills speculative oil wells, oftentimes in areas not known to be oil fields. This term […]
Satellite TV provider Dish Network is exploring more ways to match marketers’ first-party data with its own window into TV viewership following the launch of its programmatic exchange last fall. Dish already offered access to 82 segments, like age, sex, income and a plethora of propensities, such as the likelihood of a household to watch […]
“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 Robin Opie, vice president of data science at Oracle Data Cloud. Digital marketing offers a seemingly limitless number of different measurement metrics to evaluate campaigns. Some are confusing and worthless, […]
“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. Buyers talk about the need for access and transparency. Sellers talk about the power of header bidding technology. While the language may be […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. The ad tech LUMAscape has long been contracting, but one categorical staple of the cluttered landscape is now in danger of disappearing entirely. The supply-side 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 Chris Dobson, CEO at The Exchange Lab. Next month’s 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be the most connected games to date. For context, the 2014 Sochi Olympics […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kean Graham, founder and CEO at MonetizeMore. It’s clear that header bidding isn’t Google’s favorite ad tech innovation. The company claims header bidding slows down page speeds and reduces ad viewability because ads take […]
“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 Desaulniers, co-founder and president at Go2mobi. The mobile ad space is in transition. Mobile programmatic is exploding and global spend is at an all-time high. That has created a […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, vice president of global data strategy and agency lead at Krux. As a longtime digital practitioner, I sometimes feel ashamed that I haven’t clicked on many banner ads in the last 10 […]
“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 Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. Over the past year, we’ve seen news articles document the struggles of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model in programmatic. It appears that some major industry players […]
In the land of VC-backed media brands, Thought Catalog wants to be the indie media brand that could. Founded in 2010, The Thought & Expression Co., which includes sites Thought Catalog and Quote Catalog, hasn’t taken on any investment. Just 35 people work out of its Williamsburg, Brooklyn, office, including Alex Magnin, the chief revenue […]
“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°. There is so much data that can make a person’s every touch point and experience more rewarding. It’s all about 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 Louis Moynihan, vice president of product innovation at Demandbase. Microsoft will pay $26.2 billion for LinkedIn, which represents a 50% premium on LinkedIn’s stock price at the time when the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Todd Tran, global senior vice president of mobile and programmatic at Teads. How do you determine whether a video ad campaign is successful? Especially when buyers of video inventory all seem to have different […]
“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 Jeff Puzenski, an executive at Infinitive. “I can’t trust the data.” “Using the new system slows me down.” “We’re different, so this system won’t work for us.” Those who work […]
“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 Carla Holtze, CEO and co-founder at Parrable. People-based marketing – the ability to reach the right person, at the right time, on the right device – has been a practice […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jarrod Dicker, head of ad product and technology at The Washington Post. The publishing world now, more than ever, is extraordinarily fast. What used to take seconds for a URL load can now take […]
A year ago, E.W. Scripps–owned video network Newsy was predominantly a desktop-focused site. A lot has changed for the publisher, whose 55-person editorial team endeavors to put its own spin on the stories of the day across verticals, from global news and policy to culture and entertainment. Newsy is now on pace to hit one […]
“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 Christian Brucculeri, director and CEO at Snaps. If you’ve been reading some of the tech trades lately, you would be forgiven for believing that the bots have finally taken over […]
“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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. A few years ago, a pair of researchers from Google and Microsoft named Randall Lewis and Justin Rao circulated a depressing paper called […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Danny Khatib, co-founder, president and chief operating officer at Livingly Media. Publishers that surfed the recent wave of header bidding for display ads have had a nice ride. That ride will continue, but publishers […]
“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 Victor Wong, CEO at Thunder. Rich media came onto the scene with great fanfare and promise. Moving, interactive creative would certainly be more effective and engaging than static banner 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 Kathy Leake, CEO at Qualia. There’s a race in our industry to be “right” about the state of cross-device data science. Instead, we should be the smartest about how we’ve not […]
“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 Rik van der Kooi, corporate vice president, Microsoft Search Advertising. We are entering a new era of digital transformation, one that will profoundly change how we interact with technology. People […]
“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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. Maybe you rolled your eyes when you heard that some Instagram users were protesting the platform’s decision to change its algorithm so that it surfaces […]
“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 Riordan, director of special operations at TubeMogul. In March 2011, a major earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami that led to a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, […]
The Trade Desk is less than a third as valuable as it was a year ago. It retains about one-tenth of its high-water market cap from December 2024, when the company was worth almost $70 billion. Why did investors lose the faith?
McGrath left Prebid in June following five years as board chairman after stepping down as SVP of product management at Magnite. But now, overseeing Prebid will be his full-time job.
Telly, the startup that gives away free smart TVs in exchange for data and ad exposure, is making its home screen ads available for brands to buy programmatically – and pushing for industry standards to help attract more spend.
L’Oréal adopted creative AI platform Springboards to generate creative ideas that led to a collaborative, ongoing ideation process.
Google won’t have to break up its ads business after being declared an online monopolist. Meanwhile, Amazon faces a lawsuit from the FTC alleging that it charged advertisers more than necessary for ecommerce ads.
Buy-side experts said it’s another example of a Big Tech platform taking advantage of the lack of transparency built into programmatic ad auctions. And they’re not optimistic change is coming.
