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  • The Ascendency Of Analytics

    “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. Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to be invited to participate in Quest MT, a conference at the University of Montana […]

  • Creatives Need Better Data

    “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 Ephraim (Jeff) Bander, president and chief revenue officer at Sticky. In 2010, comScore debuted a landmark study that reported “creative quality drives more than half of the sales changes for […]

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  • For Successful Publishers And Their Ads, Small Will Be The Next Big Thing

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Peter Spande, chief revenue officer at Business Insider. The hits keep coming. Publishers must contend with so many threats that they all feel existential. The list is long but a handful of very real […]

  • Why Have We Only Mastered Viewability Measurement On Desktop?

    “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 Azad Jacobs, head of business operations at Drawbridge. Marketers increasingly and understandably want paid media to be viewable, and with that desire comes the need for third-party measurement and validation. […]

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  • Bad Data Makes Ad Fraud An Even Bigger Problem

    “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 Keith Fagan, vice president of data solutions at sovrn. While the digital advertising industry is well on its way to mitigating ad fraud via prevention and new cost models that […]

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  • Why Do Web Pages Load So Slowly In A Broadband World?

    “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 Picard, vice president of product planning at MediaMath. If you ask anyone, anywhere, if they like advertising, the answer will likely be a laugh and quick “no.” From a […]

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  • What Publishers Are Talking About At Advertising Week

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by John Trimble, chief revenue officer at Pandora. Like many events in the ad business, the conversations that happen offstage at Advertising Week can be even more impactful than those that take place in the […]

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  • Addressable Marketing Changed Yesterday

    “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 by Matt Naeger, executive vice president of strategy and analytics for Merkle’s Digital Agency Group. Addressable marketing is not new – we’ve been doing it for many years in the offline world. […]

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  • Money’s Coming To Video But The Industry Isn’t Ready

    “On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kevin Lenane, general manager of video at Integral Ad Science. If you regularly read digital advertising news, you may be forgiven for believing that marketers have embraced video advertising in a monumental way. In […]

  • Flash In The Pan: Historical Lessons Of Adobe's Macromedia Acquisition

    “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 PaperG. Adobe’s 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, along with its flagship products Flash and Dreamweaver, for $3.4 billion in stock, had huge potential. Macromedia’s plan for Flash to […]

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  • Email: The New Home Page

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Craig Kostelic, head of revenue at Bon Appétit & Epicurious, The Food Innovation Group. Publishers have historically treated their home pages as their waterfront property, with a finite amount of space and availability that […]

  • When Marketers Lose Control Of Their Campaigns

    “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 Eoin Townsend, chief product officer at Collective. Today’s digital marketers must invest in the best tools available to manage their campaigns and drive measureable results. But marketing technology tools require […]

  • LiveRail Exec: ‘Facebook Video And TV Are Not An Either/Or Thing’

    In a perfect world, products gel. For Facebook, achieving a harmony between its buy- and sell-side offerings has propelled its go-to-market strategy. While Facebook’s ad server, Atlas, is its buy-side play, LiveRail, the video SSP it acquired last July, services the sell side. “Ideally, everything works very well together,” said F. Scott Woods, head of […]

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  • The Untapped Potential Of All This Data

    “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 Amihai Ulman, founder and chief operating officer at Mass Exchange. We’ve all marveled at the new technology solutions entering the programmatic marketing and advertising ecosystems, along with the vast quantities […]

  • We Need To Overcome The Peter Principle In Digital Media

    “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 Dan Reiners, principal at Infinitive. In business, individuals rising to the level of their incompetence is often referred to as the Peter Principle. People rise through the organization, based on […]

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  • As Ad Blocking Grows, How Can We Balance The Scale Between Publishers And Consumers?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Madhura Sengupta, director of ad product technology at Edmunds. Publishers face increasing pressure in a competitive space, marked by gradual price deflation from ad exchanges, stricter viewability standards from advertisers and now the rise […]

  • Programmatic 3.0: The Next Paradigm In Inventory Procurement

    “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 O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Marketers have always craved access to quality audience at scale. That was once as easy as scheduling buys on the top […]

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  • How Our Brains React To Re-Messaging

    “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 Scharf, senior manager of display media operations and analytics at Adobe. What’s the secret to more effective retargeting? You might say brilliant creative, predictive modeling or segmented data. True, […]

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  • The Odyssey Sets Course To Attract Advertisers

    Upstart publishing platform The Odyssey is reminiscent of fellow “platishers” like Medium, Thought Catalog and Slant News. Its twist is to cultivate pods of writers who create content for their own communities. By harnessing interest about local events, The Odyssey hopes to attract a millennial audience and the advertisers that want to reach that audience. […]

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  • Who Will Win The Marketing Tech Playoffs?

    “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 Nishat Mehta, head of brands at 84.51°. As a Los Angeles Lakers fan, you might think the playoffs are the furthest thing from my mind given that it’s only September. […]

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  • For Publishers, Ad Blocking Is Painful But Don’t Call It An Apocalypse

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alex Magnin, chief revenue officer and partner at The Thought & Expression Co. Ad blocking has all the ingredients for a hot story. There are clear good guys (us publishers, of course) and villains. […]

  • First-Party Content: An Untapped Treasure Chest

    “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 Ferber, chairman at Bidtellect. Although there is much discussion around the power of first-party data, there is another first-party asset that represents a huge untapped opportunity for native advertisers. […]

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  • The Tipping Point For TV And Digital Video

    “On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Parkes, senior vice president, North America, at Amobee. The consumer shift to spending more time on digital than on TV is pushing the industry toward a tipping point in advertising budget allocation. Although […]

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  • Virtual Reality Technology Could Change The Way We Experience Marketing

    “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 Adam Foroughi, co-founder and CEO at AppLovin. Virtual reality technology is far from mainstream, but carries incredible implications for advertising. There are already 175,000 development kits for Oculus Rift in […]

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  • Ad Blocking Will Keep Growing Until We Make Ads Better

    “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. The rise of ad blocking is a symptom of a real problem: Ads suck. To slow the adoption of ad blocking and make the Internet […]

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  • To Boost Mobile Web, Publishers Should Take A Cue From Apps

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andrew Lebowski, head of sales at Epom Ad Server. Digital advertising professionals seem to agree that in-app ads outperform those served on mobile web. Not only do users spend more time in apps than […]

  • As The Ad Server’s 20th Birthday Approaches, A Look At The Disruptions That Followed

    “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 Dave Zinman, chief operating officer at RadiumOne. Back in 1994, a group of my Stanford business school classmates and I shared a fascination with the web and immediately recognized its […]

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  • As Scaled Platforms Gain Prominence, What Will Be The Fate Of RTB?

    “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 Berry, CEO at TripleLift. There’s a profound and seemingly inexorable movement in which each year we see a higher percent of media traded via real-time bidding (RTB). At face […]

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  • Bauer’s Programmatic-First Approach To Digital

    Until a few years ago, Bauer Media sat on the digital advertising sidelines. Since Bauer Media earned most of its revenue from newsstand sales of well-known brands, such as InTouch Weekly, J-14 and Life & Style, it didn’t want to give content away for free online. “The strategy until a few years ago was to […]

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  • Frequency Today Is A Joke, But It Doesn’t Have to Be

    “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 Elliot Hirsch, CEO at AdYapper. For digital advertising veterans, talking about how to manage campaign frequency might seem a bit old school. DoubleClick researcher Rick Bruner released a frequency best […]

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