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  • We Will All Be Carpenters in 2013

    “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 Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. It’s been a long time coming. Those of us in the industry, both as creators and the […]

  • The Unstructured Data Challenge

    “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 Matthew Keylock, SVP, Media Partnerships at dunnhumby.  Within an industry rapidly becoming obsessed with unstructured data, are we losing our focus? Unstructured data, data from customer emails, social media, video, and […]

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  • Constructing the 'Professional Graph'

    “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 Greg Lieber, VP of Business Development at GraphEffect. Advertisers, welcome to the “professional graph.” LinkedIn recently announced the launch of its Ads API, which will allow developers to build […]

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  • Barriers to Benchmarking, And How Agencies Can Overcome Them

    “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. While on vacation in Turkey this past week, I vacillated between aimlessly wandering the streets one day to carefully researching the possibilities […]

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  • 2012: A Year that Surprised Us

    “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 Seideman, Director of Sales, Exchange and Targeting, Microsoft Advertising  The holidays are upon us, and it is that time of year when we can reflect on the past 12 […]

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  • Online Marketing: Top Trends for 2013

    “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 Sid Shah, Director of Business Analytics for Advertising Solutions, Adobe.  A combination of established trends and new technology innovations will cause 2013 to be an eventful year for digital marketing. Here […]

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  • A Viewability Technology Primer, Part 2: Vendor Selection & Applications

    “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 the second installment in a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Part I is here). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions […]

  • A Viewability Technology Primer, Part 1: Promises & Pitfalls

    “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 part one of a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Read part 2). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions Implementation […]

  • Market Research Goes Social

    “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. Today’s social advertising campaigns and branded social communities reach tens of thousands, even millions of people. Brands now benefit from cultivated communities that act on special […]

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  • Advancing The 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 John Nardone, CEO at [x+1]. It has been argued that the proliferation of ad technologies over the last few years has not really advanced our industry. Moreover, some suggest […]

  • How Big Data Sparks Creativity And Culture In Startup Land

    “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  Greg Keller, Chief Operating Officer at LinkSmart. Green arrows up. Red arrows down. The distillation of large amounts of data into simple information that users can understand and take […]

  • You Say You Don’t Want a Revolution?

    “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 Jonathan Mendez, CEO and founder of Yieldbot. “It’s still day one (for the Internet). The alarm clock hasn’t even gone off. We haven’t even hit the snooze alarm. […]

  • Beauty of Digital GRPs Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

    “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 Kevin Haley, Chief Scientist at Videology. Verification is good. Everyone wants to know that what they bought is what they got. With regard to online video, for years the […]

  • Adding To The Brand Conversation

    “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 Mukund Ramachandran, General Manager, Brand Advertising Solutions, DataXu. Over the summer, Bob Arnold of Kellogg started a column called Brand Aware on AdExchanger. Bob wrote something everyone in digital marketing can relate to: […]

  • Viewability: The Path to Less Digital Waste

    “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 Jessica Sanfilippo, group media director at 360i.  Below the fold, partial ad loads, and other related (and unwanted) occurrences on the island of misfit banners are the digital equivalents […]

  • Time For A New Mobile Ad Format

    “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. I’ve been designing, prototyping and deploying new ad formats in digital advertising for more than 15 years. I started one of the first rich […]

  • The Banner Blindness Cure: How Fewer Ads Can Equal More Revenue

    “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 Dave Zinman, CEO of Infolinks. The economics of online advertising are at best confusing and at worst completely backwards. We’ve got a zillion systems to target ads and auction […]

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  • Less is More: Pricing Your Way Out of Data Congestion

    “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 […]

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  • 3 Ways Apple Can Transform iPhone Advertising With Its New IDFA

    “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 […]

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  • The News Of My Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated! -The Banner

    “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 […]

  • Why Marketers Shouldn’t Compare Google ROI to Facebook ROI

    “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 […]

  • Perfect Your Facebook Ad Strategy This Holiday Season

    “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). […]

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  • Measuring Facebook In a Post-'Like' World

    “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 […]

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  • Designing for the Data-Driven Organization

    “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 […]

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  • Optimizing for Viewability? Know the Risks

    “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 […]

  • The Rise of Paid Media Publishing

    “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 […]

  • Pins, Tweets, and Likes: Use Social Data to Inform Content Strategies

    “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 […]

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  • How Behavioral Data Gets Big

      “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 […]

  • Perils of the Ad Viewability Craze

    “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 […]

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  • Vetting Mobile Vendors: A Month of 'Yes'

    “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. […]

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