Opinion

“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 Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai.  Pricing a shared asset like data can be counterintuitive. Data is a non-rival good, like a toll road.  Even though people expect to pay for and […]

“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 Michael Oiknine, CEO of Apsalar. Every iPhone comes with an identification number — like a serial number – that’s used for connecting data to a specific handset. Until recently, the […]

“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. There has been much talk lately about the demise of the banner as an effective communications tool. These conversations can be self-centered, pointless, naïve, or all […]

“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 Kaminski, President US of iProspect. In the battle for digital advertising dollars, Google is the established leader and Facebook is the scrappy newcomer. While Google offers an expansive […]

“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 Laura O’Shaughnessy, CEO of SocialCode. This holiday season, analysts expect sales growth to come in a percentage point lower than the previous two years at 4.1% (National Retail Federation). […]

“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 Kyle Barber, SVP Global Performance Lead at McCann Worldgroup. Wouldn’t it be great if there were one simple metric that neatly measured the effectiveness of all social media advertising and […]

“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 Bitsy Bentley, Director of Data Visualization at GfK. Think graphic designer, and what comes to mind? PowerPoint decks? Infographics with cute cartoons? Yes, it all has its place, and […]

“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 Pancer, COO of Media6Degrees. Viewability – it’s a word of the moment. I’m pro-viewability (it’s hard to not be!) but there are issues with establishing it as 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 Will Price, CEO of Flite.  Brands are increasingly embracing content marketing, behaving like publishers for their owned and earned media in today’s digital world.  Coca-Cola’s “Liquid and Linked” video […]

“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 Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. Millions of people are now pinning, tweeting, re-tweeting, hashtagging, liking, sharing, and commenting throughout the day. While […]

  “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, EVP Global Partners at Dunnhumby. When my family and I moved to New York City, one of the first items we purchased was a Sodastream home carbonation […]

“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 Peter Davies, SVP Sales & Marketing at Adconion Direct. The current definition of an “in-view” ad impression, according to the IAB’s Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) initiative, is this: “Fifty […]

“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 Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. In my July column I wrote about the large number of mobile ad networks chasing a limited amount of advertiser demand. […]

“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 Bosco, COO of ChoiceStream. Massive amounts of data, combined with state-of-the-art computing power, has allowed for one of the most interesting and direct ties between digital advertising and […]

“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 Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets. Since late 2009 and the advent of the RTB era, online marketers have had access to a tremendous tool. RTB has allowed them to […]

“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 Peter Klein, SVP of media services at MediaWhiz, an integrated digital media agency and part of the Hyper Marketing Inc. network. It’s easy to take a prominent stance against […]

“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 Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. Marketers preparing for Q4 are no doubt keenly aware of the importance 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 Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. Today’s consumer expects a lot from her digital devices. A busy parent looking for Mario Batali’s latest […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joanna O’Connell is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Last week, I participated in AdExchanger’s first ever conference and I thought I’d use the column today to share several themes I heard over the […]

“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 Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer at MDC Partners’ The Media Kitchen. There was a seminal study done a few years ago by comScore, Tacoda and Starcom USA called “Natural […]

“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 Decker, a managing director at Mindshare, a GroupM agency. Most people in the digital marketing world wouldn’t credit Albert Einstein as a founding father of digital marketing, but […]

“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. Ever since my March column addressing viewable impressions, I’ve been tagged as “that […]

“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 Turner, General Manager of EMEA, Adaptly. The social ecosystem is waging change on traditional powerbases within the industry. Not only has power shifted back to the publisher (the […]

“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, CEO at Rare Crowds. Ad tech is a fascinating and constantly evolving space.  We’ve seen several ‘waves’ of evolution in ad tech over the years, and I believe […]

“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. Today’s media buyers and sellers are playing on a whole new field, where preying on consumer behavior is the norm and big data is the apparent […]

“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 Jeremy Ozen, cofounder of Vistar Media.  Here’s a trivia question: When and where was the first ever display ad? Some of you will answer 1994 on Hotwired.com.  That AT&T […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Chavez, founder and CEO of Krux Digital. When he was running the Right Media Exchange, Ramsey McGrory posited what I call the McGrory Conjecture during a panel […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matthew Keylock, SVP, Media Partnerships at dunnhumby.  Display advertising has suffered the same ailment plaguing much of digital marketing – frequent irrelevance is easy and cheap. This trend […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Shim, CEO at Placed. While there are a handful of companies close to realizing the potential of location-based targeting, as an overall industry there is a gap between […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Berke, president at AdRoll. “We’re a technology company, but we provide managed services for large accounts.”  How many times have you heard something along those lines from […]