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  • Smart Marketers Can Use Data To Build Trust

    “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 Milen Mahadevan, senior vice president and head of client solutions and capabilities at 84.51°. Data is amazing. It will transform your business and create demand by connecting with customers better. […]

  • Can’t We Finally Move Past Click Attribution?

    “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 digital at Bon Appétit & Epicurious, The Food Innovation Group Although many have noted the shortfalls of using click-through rates (CTR), premium publishers still fall victim to the pressure of […]

  • An Ad Tech Temperature Check

    “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. Clayton Christensen, the father of “disruptive innovation,” would love the ad technology industry. With more than 2,500 Lumascape companies across various […]

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  • What Can Programmatic TV Learn From Display?

    “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.  For the first time this year, more than half of digital display advertising spending will be transacted programmatically. The practice of media trading with RTB, private […]

  • Will Programmatic Make Audio Advertising The Next Big Thing?

    “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 Evan Krauss, vice president of emerging solutions at PubMatic. With 160 million people in the US listening to digital audio every day, advertisers’ ears are perking up at the possibilities. […]

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  • Utah Publisher Achieves Symbiosis With Facebook's News Feed

    As audiences increasingly find and engage with content on Facebook, publishers face two choices: Keep trying to monetize that audience off of Facebook, or find a way to sell their Facebook audiences to advertisers. Deseret Digital Media is going the latter route, using posts in its FamilyShare Facebook feed as part of the native advertising […]

  • With Ad Blocking Growing, What Rights Do Publishers And Advertisers Have?

    “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 Malachard, CEO at Byyd. In what many regarded as a litmus test for the advertising industry, a court in Germany ruled last month against two publishers, Die Zeit and […]

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  • Ad Tech Salespeople Need A Common Parlance For Brands

    “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 Chandler, senior vice president of revenue at Rubicon Project’s Buyer Cloud. As more brands discuss in-house automation strategies, there is an increasing need to educate brand marketers on the […]

  • In Today’s Scam-Plagued Ad Industry, Where Will Fraudsters Win?

    “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 Wheeler, CEO at 33Across. It was abundantly clear at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads I/O conference last week that fraud will continue to plague the industry for the foreseeable future. Its […]

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  • Publishers Must Move Beyond Ad Servers To Unlock The Full Efficiency of Programmatic

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jourdain-Alexander Casale, senior director of solutions at Index Exchange. For more than 15 years, ad servers have been the go-to standard for publishers booking, trafficking and serving direct advertising campaigns. The ad server is […]

  • Smart Cities May Be A Godsend For Data-Driven Marketers – If They Maintain Trust

    “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 Mike Weston, CEO at Profusion. Imagine a world where every movement is tracked and analyzed. Businesses know everyone’s route to work, shopping habits, places they’ve eaten and socialized and friends, […]

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  • Programmatic TV: Further Ahead, Further Behind Than You Think

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Walt Horstman, president at AudienceXpress. Based on the number of times it was cited in recent upfront presentations, people’s perception of programmatic TV appears to have morphed from wry skepticism among industry insiders to […]

  • It's Too Early For Bulletproof Viewability

    “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 Paul Rostkowski, president at Varick Media Management.  Viewability has become a major issue in online advertising, having come to represent advertisers’ fear and lack of trust in digital. Brands want […]

  • Is Ad Blocking Akin To Theft?

    “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 Josh Speyer, CEO at AerServ. Israeli startup Shine recently made waves in the mobile ad tech world with its ad blocking platform, which enables users to remove ads from the […]

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  • Widening Discrepancies: The Industry’s Dirt Under The Rug

    “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 it comes to discrepancies in digital advertising, publishers bear the brunt of the cost. It’s a fact that is so ingrained in the standard processes used […]

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  • Fighting For Short-Term Gain On Viewability Will Hurt Long-Term

    “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 Michele Appello, director of business solutions at Improve Digital. What makes an ad viewable? Your answer may differ based on whether you work on the buy side or the sell […]

  • Tribune Publishing Focuses On Being A Data-First Sales Organization

    Publishers often talk about wanting to “help the buyer however it wants to buy,” embracing methods like private marketplaces, direct sales or automated guaranteed. But a big part of how buyers want to buy today is with data. Tribune Publishing wants to create more data-focused advertising opportunities throughout the organization – which includes the Los […]

  • Why Programmatic Budgets Will See Massive Growth

    “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 strategic partnerships at MediaMath. There was a time when advertising was a game of statistical assumptions about the types of people who were consuming media. […]

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  • Can’t Marketing Tech Vendors And Agencies Just Get Along?

    “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 Mendel Senf, CEO at Yieldr. There’s been plenty of commentary on the problems that exist within digital advertising, spanning from fraud and viewability issues to opaque practices and brand safety […]

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  • Where Did All The Marketers Go?

    “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 Patrick Hounsell, executive vice president and chief digital officer at Merkle. I was at an industry conference recently. It was another in a long line of events where one smart industry […]

  • Apple’s ‘1984’ TV Commercial Holds Lessons For Today’s Mobile Video Ads

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Matevz Klanjsek, co-founder and chief product officer at Celtra. Ridley Scott produced two masterpieces early in his career: “Blade Runner” in 1982, which some considered the greatest science fiction film ever made, and the […]

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  • Please Stop Calling It ‘Currency’

    “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. Every couple of years, the industry develops an infatuation with a new topic. Today’s infatuation: describing the current media trading […]

  • Programmatic Requires A Dynamic Approach To Creative

    “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 Paul Longo, managing director at Accordant Media. Every brand has a checklist when it comes to its programmatic media strategy. Right time – check. Right place – check. Right message – […]

  • With Data Becoming A Currency, Brands Need To Sharpen Their Analytics Skills

    “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 Finn Faldi, CEO at Trueffect. Data has become the modern-day currency for brands to maintain a competitive advantage. As a result, brands have increasingly built entire infrastructures – a combination of […]

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  • What Can American Publishers Learn From Europe?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Romain Job, US general manager at Smart AdServer.  Many digital publishers in Europe are thriving in an advertising market very different from that in the US. Those distinctions offer important insights for US publishers, […]

  • Programmatic TV: A Monumental Upgrade For Advertisers

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rany Ng, product management director, video and TV advertising, DoubleClick by Google. I enjoy a good binge-watching session of “Breaking Bad” as much as the next person. But when it comes to television, what […]

  • The Ad Tech And Mar Tech Convergence Accelerates

    “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 strategic alliances at Demandbase. Last year, I declared the convergence of ad tech and marketing tech to be a key theme of 2014. Since then, […]

  • Dynamic Audiences Beat Dynamic 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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. Dynamic ads, where the ad shown to a particular user reflects products viewed or pages visited, have been a popular mainstay of programmatic advertising […]

  • With Two Sides To The Viewability Equation, Discrepancies Persist

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Dave Marquard, director of product management, publisher products, at Integral Ad Science. Now that the MRC has defined that for a digital display ad to be viewable, half of the creative must be in […]

  • Where Is Your Company’s Next Data Dalai Lama?

    “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 Lung Huang, vice president of global partnerships at 84.51°. Little known fact: The Dalai Lama is technically not chosen, but rather found. This idea of “being found rather than chosen” […]

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