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  • Big Data: The Time For Talking Is 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 Lung Huang, vice president of digital advertising and global partnerships at dunnhumby. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy asks the wizard if he has ever been frightened. The Great […]

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  • Retargeting And Prospecting: An Integrated Approach

    “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 Gurman Hundal, co-founder of Media iQ. Ad network pitches usually go like this: Their proprietary technology enables them to prospect new potential customers for advertisers. The truth is that, in […]

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  • Programmatic Premium: Can We Settle On One Definition?

    “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 Anthony Katsur, CEO of Maxifier. What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to “programmatic premium,” quite a lot. Interpretations of this term differ widely, as evidenced by the […]

  • 5 Types Of Performance Marketing Fraud

    “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 Bodhi Short, SVP of Operations & Product Development at Integrate. It often takes only two words to pause a deal with brands and agencies: performance marketing. This effect is reinforced […]

  • Can Facebook Solve Its Relevance 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 Chris Tuleya, VP of Direct Response at Underscore Marketing. For months, the industry has been abuzz about Facebook’s Real-Time Bidding exchange, with pundits touting the millions of impressions it makes […]

  • How To Hire In Programmatic Sales

    “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 Ed Carey, VP Demand Sales at The Rubicon Project. At this stage of the programmatic growth story, almost every business in the chain of marketers, agencies, platforms, and publishers has […]

  • How Publishers Can Beat Agencies In Trading-Desk 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 Chris O’Hara, Chief Revenue Officer at NextMark. Worthless. That’s what I – and most of my colleagues – thought of leftover or remnant advertising when I was selling highly premium banner […]

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  • Display Advertising Fraud is a Sell-Side 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 by Douglas de Jager, founder of Spider.io.  In Will Luttrell’s AdExchanger article of last week, he argues that if the display advertising buy side adopts better performance metrics then the problem of fraud […]

  • 10 Tips For 'Real-Time Branding'

    “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 Andrew Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Chief Strategist at Essence Digital. No doubt about it: Direct response marketers bankrolled the real-time bidding revolution, while brand dollars keep fuelling growth on the reservation side. […]

  • The Elusive Integrated Campaign: How To Get There

    “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 Jim Parkinson, Chief Digital Officer, Valassis. Today, marketers have a unique opportunity to engage consumers through the integration of print and digital mediums. The marketer who is able to […]

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  • Only The Buy-Side Can Solve Our Fraud 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 Will Luttrell, Co-founder and CTO at Integral Ad Science. Fraud impacts the entire online advertising industry and costs us millions of dollars each year. While everyone can play a role in […]

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  • Beyond the Firewall: Why Business Intelligence Matters To 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 Khurrum Malik, CMO at eXelate. Advertisers who fully grasp the interplay between ad tech and Business Intelligence (BI) will maximize customer lifetime value in the accelerating digital world. Here’s why. In […]

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  • Reducing Private Exchange Friction With a New Protocol Upgrade

    “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 Andrew Casale, VP Strategy, Casale Media. Private exchanges were designed to bring publishers and buyers closer together, address concerns of channel conflict, and ultimately increase inventory value. We have yet to see […]

  • All You Can Eat (And Other Real Solutions To The Online Privacy Fiasco)

    “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 Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. Have you seen recent articles about the Firefox cookie-blocking privacy debate? I don’t blame those of us in the digital media community for going […]

  • Is Demand For FBX Dynamic Enough For It To Compete?

    “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 Jesse Pujji, CEO at Ampush. Facebook’s announcement of a real time advertising exchange in June last year was one of the biggest stories of 2012. Even though data is still scarce […]

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  • The Case For Twitter Investment: An ROI-Focused Attribution Approach

    “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 Phil Gross, Director of Product Management at Visual IQ. With Facebook’s purchase of Atlas, all eyes are on social media measurement. Twitter provides an interesting challenge with respect to measurement, as there […]

  • Debunking 6 Myths Of Marketing Attribution

    “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 Heather Pidgeon, VP of Services at iProspect. As most of us know, fear of the unknown often comes from a lack of understanding. Due to the many new and unfamiliar factors […]

  • We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Third-Party Cookies

    “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. I’ve been writing about some of the ethical issues with “opt-out” third-party tracking for a long time. It’s a practice that makes me extremely […]

  • The Two Media Pillars That Will Remain Standing 100 Years From Now

    “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 Kirk McDonald, President at PubMatic. The constant stream of new technologies in our everyday lives has created a “shiny new penny” syndrome. One day it’s emerging mobile apps that take the […]

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  • The Clock Is Ticking On 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 Eric Franchi, Co-founder at Undertone. Digital media does not lack topics suitable for debate and disagreement. We have a variety of forums to debate them in real time over the web, […]

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  • Firefox Cookie-Block Is The First Step Toward A Better Tomorrow

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. Mozilla recently announced that the next version of Firefox, one of the most popular web browsers in the world, would come with a default setting that […]

  • Barriers to Trading Innovation

    “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 Gurman Hundal, Co-founder at Media IQ. The expression “the elephant in the room” feels rather fitting when considering barriers to display trading innovation. As digital marketers, we have many “elephants” — […]

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  • A Publisher's History Of Programmatic 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 Chris O’Hara, Chief Revenue Officer at NextMark. It’s hard to argue that the banner ad era has been good to publishers. After a brief initial period in which banner inventory […]

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  • Sifting The Programmatic Conflation and Conflagration

    “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 Jed Nahum, Senior Director of Programmatic Sales at Microsoft Advertising. At the recent IAB Annual Leadership Conference, I attended a cocktail-fueled discussion of programmatic.  The discussion started with a […]

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  • Please Track Me?

    “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, executive VP-global partners at Dunnhumby. Fundamentally, people prefer to be treated personally. We like to be called by name at our favorite restaurant. A resort hotel’s excellence often is […]

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  • Privacy Confusion Is A Real Problem. Time To Solve 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 by Jay Stocki, VP of Business Development at Bering Media. All opinions are Jay’s alone and not those of Bering Media. We have a privacy problem in online advertising. An anecdote that sums […]

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  • Easy Pickings? The Trouble With Low-Hanging Fruit

    “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 Andrew Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Chief Strategist at Essence Digital. Digital marketing is at risk of becoming a demand-harvesting machine. We’re getting so good at finding audiences that will obligingly convert that […]

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  • The End Of Single Channel Measurement

    “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 Kim Reed Perell, the CEO of Adconion Direct.   Consumers are now everywhere when it comes to digital. They are networking on social media sites, watching videos, checking email, reading news […]

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  • Let's Not Expand 'Programmatic' To Include Everything

    “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 Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. Over the last three months, the word “programmatic” has been featured in the […]

  • Programmatic Premium Isn’t Just About Efficiency

    “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. The industry is rife with conversations about programmatic premium media buying and selling right now, and I could write a column about each of […]

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