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  • 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” […]

  • Bonnier Shares Pub-Side Analytics For Private Marketplace Success

    The rise of private marketplaces has transferred power to publishers, who can communicate information about fill rates, win rates and floor prices to buyers. “What makes programmatic successful is having insights to communicate to the trading desk,” said Sean Holzman, chief digital revenue officer for Bonnier, publisher of Popular Science, Saveur and Field & Stream, […]

  • The Best Digital Advertising Always Taps Human Creativity

    “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 Lux Narayan, co-founder and CEO at Unmetric. It’s sad to see the “Mad Men” series come to an end. The show struck a nostalgic chord for me and others with […]

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  • Unified Data Management Requires Unified Teams

    “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 Ali Bohra, director of product marketing at Adobe. Are you reaching your audience where they are most often? It’s an increasingly important question for marketers today. The rapid proliferation of […]

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  • Buy Media, Get Creative for Free

    “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 Gilbreath, co-founder and president of Ahalogy. Back in the golden years of advertising, the creative agency was king and media folks were second-class citizens. A typical agency meeting was spent debating […]

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  • How Do We Bridge The Gap Between The NewFronts And Upfronts?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lorne Brown, CEO at Operative. How can we reach the people we’d ordinarily try to reach on their televisions, now that they no longer look at their televisions? Consumers aren’t just watching cat videos […]

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  • Facebook: Quietly Killing The Remarketing Industry

    “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, CEO at SocialWire. Facebook launched a remarketing product in February called Dynamic Product Ads (DPAs), which essentially represents the beginning of the end for the hundreds of ad […]

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  • For Publishers, TV Requires A Balancing Act

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Reed Barker, vice president of cable ad products at The Weather Company. Remember when you were a kid and you finally realized that there was no Santa Claus? There was a decision on the […]

  • How Not To Get Fired Before Next Year’s Upfronts

    “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 Jay Stocki, vice president of digital services at Experian Marketing Services. You won’t get fired for buying age and gender gross rating points (GRPs) at this year’s upfronts. But mark […]

  • Device Bridging And Geofencing: A Buyer’s Perspective

    “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 Thierry Cornet, partner portfolio manager at UM. The market is awash with mobile ad networks claiming to be specialists in geolocation and, more recently, device bridging. But pulling back the […]

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  • We Need Trust In Every Layer Of The Digital Ad Taxonomy

    “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 Tony Casson, senior director of ad tech products at sovrn. Advertising impressions are the means by which advertisers attribute value to people they hope to engage in ad campaigns. The […]

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  • Video Is Consuming The Digital Ad Industry

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Daren Trousdell, CEO at OneUp Sports. I recently had a discussion with a digital industry leader whose company aims to grow video’s scale and overall inventory levels to take advantage of rising demand. The part […]

  • How Can We Move To High Predictability Ad Serving?

    “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 Nanda Kishore, chief technology officer at ShareThis. When you’re an Olympic sprinter, the only thing that matters is speed. But when you’re an online advertiser, you need more than just […]

  • It’s The End Of The Upfronts As We Know Them (And I Feel Fine)

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bob Rupczynski, vice president of media, data and CRM at Kraft Foods Group. You can’t fool me. I see you there. You’re reading this on your phone in the middle of another NewFront (or […]

  • Measuring the Previously Unmeasurable: Out-of-Home Goes Mobile

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Earlier this week, I participated in the Five Boro Bike Tour, a 40-mile trek through the streets of New York. We rode […]

  • It’s Time To Rethink Cross-Device Accuracy

    “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 Tim Abraham, director of data platforms at Adbrain. Digital channels have provided a great return in dollar value and consumer insights. The emergence of cross-device solutions measurement has become a […]

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  • Viewability: A Currency, Not A Metric

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, VP of business development at Index Exchange. In order to effectively leverage viewability in a programmatic marketplace, buyers and sellers need to start thinking of it as a currency and not as […]

  • The Fallacy of Calling Atlas People-Based ‘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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. If I’ve learned one thing from my 20 years in marketing, it’s this: When brands market to people, they expect to be able […]

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  • What’s Your Level Of Confidence In The 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 Kathy Leake, CEO at Qualia. As cross-screen marketing continues to evolve, the industry’s approach to the underlying data science also will mature. The amount of time consumers spend per platform […]

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  • How The Rise Of Publisher Coalitions Helps Programmatic

    The joke is that France’s socialist roots made it easy for publisher coalitions to spring up in the country. La Place Media led the way, three years ago, followed by Audience Square in December 2012. But now the idea of cooperation among former competitors is spreading. In recent weeks, AdExchanger profiled coalitions in the UK […]

  • How Should We Measure Media Value?

    “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. Measuring the comparative value of media inventory has been a longstanding challenge. For both sides, the relative value of media […]

  • The Math Behind Wrongly Aligned Advertiser KPIs

    “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 Triscari, CEO of Labmatik. It is a response to “Advertisers May Unknowingly Add To The Industry’s Fraud Problem,” posted on AdExchanger on April 23. The interplay of demand, supply and […]

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  • The Video Ad Market Could Be Unrecognizable In 6 Months

    “On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Hagai Tal, CEO at Taptica. Video is a powerhouse advertising tool because it can engage on multiple levels, and advertisers increasingly want to leverage video across channels. After years of technological advancement in […]

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