“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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. More than a decade ago, Harvard Business School professor Gerald Zaltman reported that 95% of consumers’ purchase decision-making takes place […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. One of programmatic’s biggest benefits has been the liquidity it offered in the marketplace for display advertising impressions. Before programmatic and real-time bidding (RTB), in particular, the market […]
“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. The one certainty of digital marketing over the last 20 years is that it is always changing […]
“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 Emad Georgy, senior vice president of product development and global head of development at Experian Marketing Services. In the age of the half-read article, far too few have taken the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Grant Brown, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Rant. Viewability has surged as a No. 1 priority for media companies this year as brands and agencies increasingly push for proof that consumers saw their […]
“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 Brian Dolan, founder and president at WorkReduce. I was in a bar with an ad tech CEO who was describing a visit to a luxury brand CMO. “It’s my first […]
“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 Stephen Upstone, CEO at LoopMe. Big, dominant Internet and app players are investing heavily in mobile native video advertising. Facebook, for example, could sell $700 million worth of autoplay native […]
“On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by John A. Holmes, partner at Sq1. Programmatic television is the future of advertising. By purchasing TV inventory programmatically, brands can pair the full-screen sight, sound and motion experience of television with the advanced […]
“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. While we love stories of disruption in business, actual disruption of your personal life and work is a lot less fun. At this moment, any advertising […]
“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 Hagai Shechter, CEO and founder at Fraudlogix. Online ad fraud is a problem nearly as old as the online advertising industry itself. By now the existence of fake traffic, including bots […]
Answers.com, long a haven of performance marketers seeking scale and efficiency, has bigger dreams: to create enough value for advertisers to seek it out for direct sales. The publisher, which reaches 73 million unique users on desktop and 35 million on mobile, first added a direct sales arm in 2013. But its efforts to establish […]
“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 Peralta, CEO at AudienceScience. As the digital media industry continues to push for a deeper understanding of ad viewability, some advertisers, including Havas, GroupM and Unilever, are making it […]
“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 Kristin Marlow, managing director at Accordant Media. The recent Nielsen acquisition of eXelate, an independent data management platform (DMP), marks the latest in a string of major mergers that 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 Andrew Shebbeare, founding partner and global innovation director at Essence. I believe we are entering the second age of programmatic. If the first phase of this revolution was characterized by […]
“On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Go to any ad tech conference this spring and you’re sure to hear people buzzing about how digital video – specifically mobile video – is […]
“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 Denise Colella, CEO at Maxifier. Programmatic ad tech has made the advertising process easier, faster and more efficient, but it cannot drive great advertising strategy alone. Insights gleaned from 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 Bosko Milekic, co-founder and vice president of technology at AdGear. After scoring space for your client’s ad on a few premium websites, the reports rolling through your demand-side platform show […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Randol, vice president of programmatic sales strategy at Pandora. Five years ago, programmatic buyers were in the driver’s seat, with access to an overabundance of cheap, programmatically accessible inventory. Cookies were all you […]
“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 Marc Grabowski, CEO at Iris Mobile. Marketers need to reprioritize their remarketing and display reengagement decision stack because the status quo is antiquated. Display remarketing, retargeting and reengagement – terms […]
“On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Bokor, senior vice president and director of advanced media at MediaVest. Although a commonly agreed upon definition of programmatic TV doesn’t exist yet – making it perhaps the most abused term in […]
“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 Justin Petty, vice president of global media and partnerships at dunnhumby. The big data revolution helped to create a new job title: the data scientist. The title, which Harvard Business […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. Ad fraud is present across all layers of the advertising ecosystem, but there is one behavioral factor that is more likely to predict the presence of […]
“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 Augustine Fou, digital strategist and independent ad fraud researcher. The ways that malware-compromised PCs can cause ad fraud, including fake ad impressions, fake clicks, ad injection and cookie stuffing, 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 Patrick Hopf, president and founder at SourceKnowledge. Challenges like viewability, fraud and bot traffic have seized the attention of the online advertising industry, but instead of getting distracted by problems […]
Video supply-side platform consolidation was huge last year – Telstra (Ooyala) grabbed Videoplaza, Facebook bought LiveRail and RTL Group planted a majority stake in SpotXchange. But in the wake of all the acquisitions, new SSPs also arose. The latest is Videa, a TV SSP backed by broadcaster Cox, unveiled Thursday. Videa has been in beta […]
“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 Editorial brands have an emotional relationship with their audiences. Advertisers work with editorial brands to get the halo effect of […]
“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 Andy Fisher, chief analytics officer at Merkle. The TV network industry has seen extraordinary change over the past several years. Consumer viewing behaviors are in constant flux as they consume […]
The programmatic auction has changed drastically since its first iteration. The addition of intermediaries and complex auctions across multiple verticals has created fragmentation for publishers and marketers. And AI is adding further complexity.
Hundreds of exasperated and unexpected ad industry phone calls were made on Sunday, as agencies and ad tech vendors discussed the fallout of Publicis Groupe’s $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp over the weekend.
Meet Kovva, a new AI ad tech startup tackling the unglamorous gruntwork that programmatic has never fully automated.
Upfront week is officially over. In case you missed any of the dog-and-pony shows — including Chappell Roan belting out “Pink Pony Club” during YouTube’s Broadcast — don’t worry; we’ve got you covered.
During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results.
TelevisaUnivision and Disney took over Day Two of upfronts week in New York City on Tuesday, and the throughline was data quality.
