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  • Don't Dump Inventory In An Exchange, Leverage It First

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Al Silverstein is CEO of AudienceFuel, a publisher-to-publisher, house inventory trading platform. Everyone knows that online publishers rely on ad sales to turn a profit, but very few understand how difficult it is to actually manage […]

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  • Four Ways Viewable Impressions Will Change The Industry

    “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 Mark Hughes, CEO of C3 Metrics. Economic changes usually begin with whispers. You meet a client for coffee, and he tells you Q2 doesn’t look so good. Or […]

  • The Future is Happening: Real-Time Ad Buying

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frank Addante is founder and CEO of The Rubicon Project, a digital advertising infrastructure company. The hot topic in digital advertising today is real-time ad buying. Even for a fast-evolving industry, it felt like real-time ad […]

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  • Private Exchanges from a Premium Publisher Perspective - What Does It All Mean?

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is the second of a two-part series and written by Esco Strong, Director, Exchange Marketplace Management at Microsoft. You can read Part I here. In the first part of this series, I highlighted the common industry definitions of “Private […]

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  • Private Exchanges from a Premium Publisher Perspective - Cutting Through the Confusion

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is the first of a two-part series and written by Esco Strong, Director, Exchange Marketplace Management at Microsoft Even if you’re but a casual follower of the digital display advertising space, one such option and term you’ve no doubt […]

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  • Big Data Meets Ad Tech

    “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 Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund, a venture investment firm, and Tim Hanlon, CEO, Vertere Group, a consulting group. The brand ad market is massive (multi-multi $B), with […]

  • Mad Channels for Mad Men

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. 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. Selling digital used to be easy: how big is the budget, and do they want the News section, or […]

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  • What Data Buying Isn'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 Michael Katz, CEO of interclick, a Yahoo! company. With all the great data that data providers are making accessible today, it’s possible to interact with consumers in ways […]

  • Taking Issue With Viewable Impressions

    “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 Mark Hughes, CEO of C3 Metrics. At the worst possible time, the digital marketing measurement business is again showing inconsistencies. The issue this time is the matter of […]

  • What The Year Of The Dragon Has In Store For Marketers

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pam Horan, President of the Online Publishers Association, a not-for-profit trade organization that represents online publishers In the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, a fitting animal characterized by being driven, unafraid of […]

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  • Direct Dialing Intent

    “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, founder of Yieldbot. One of the most exciting and disruptive things going on right now in digital media is the rise of new businesses harvesting intent […]

  • Social Does Not Equal Search

    “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 Nikhil Sethi, who is co-founder/CEO Adaptly. As we look at the emergence of social as a serious contender within a typical media buy, the marketplace is noticing an evolution […]

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  • Proof: Framing The Viewable Impression

    “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 Steve Sullivan, VP, Digital Supply Chain Solutions, IAB. In the 1991 Australian film Proof, Hugo Weaving plays a blind photographer named Martin, who must rely on his other senses […]

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  • The Faulty Comparison of Analog Dollars to Digital Dimes

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. The comparison of “analog dollars” to “digital dimes” is often an attempt to explain that paltry digital revenue is coming from […]

  • Does Having A Privacy Policy Matter?

    “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. David Danziger is Director of Data and Targeting Products at Acxiom Corporation. The Future of Privacy Forum recently analyzed the top 30 paid mobile apps (across multiple mobile platforms including Blackberry, Android, and iOS) […]

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  • Digital Media: The Odd Man Out

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. The sciencification of advertising is on a clear, steady march toward greater and greater efficiencies, whether that be optimized cost for […]

  • A Publisher View on Real-Time Bidding Today

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Tyler Fitch is Director of Yield Management at Mindjolt, an online games company. The following has been building up for months after seeing article after article of DSP execs saying that publishers are wrong and should open up their all their […]

  • All Hail the V.A.D.A.R.

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Soloff, CEO, Metamarkets, a publisher analytics company. Around the time he was busy founding a retail bank, my good friend Josh Reich offered the insight that […]

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  • The Five Stages of Data Grief

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Michael Zimbalist is VP, Research & Development Operations for the New York Times Co. He also co-founded the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and serves as a member of its executive committee. In the years since Terry Kawaja first published his famous […]

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  • Why All Advertising Will Be Social – Navigating the Social Brand Map

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of XA.net. XA.net’s optim.al is a Social Media Ad Platform. Names and signs were very much what early advertising was about: in the Middle […]

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  • The Battle For Consumer Data

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Chavez, CEO, Krux Digital. The battle for consumer data just reached a new, much more feverish pitch. The day before yesterday, Apple announced what a lot […]

  • Why DSPs Are Not Enough

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Eric Bamberger, SVP, Performance Marketing Group, SearchIgnite, a unit of Dentsu’s Innovation Interactive. 2010 was a banner year for the Display industry – no pun intended.  Truthfully, Display has made a remarkable […]

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  • Dude... Would You Please Quit It With The Financial Markets Jargon Already?

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Soloff, CEO, Metamarkets, a publisher analytics company. During the summer of 2008, I was having one of those NY business breakfasts – the kind of meal […]

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  • The Drive-Time Web

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Niel Robertson, CEO of Trada, an online marketplace technology company. Driving between Boulder and Denver the other day, I did something completely old school – I turned […]

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  • Why 2011 is the Year of the Ad Network; Or, Why Nobody is an Ad Exchange

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of XA.net, an online advertising company. What’s an ad network anyway? Some would say: an entity that manages yield for both publishers and advertisers, […]

  • Say "Cheese" Agency Trading Desks, DSPs And Exchanges

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Ali C. Mirian is VP, Product and Technology, at IAC Advertising. It was the greatest cheddar cheese I have ever tasted. Sweet, yet subtly sharp, and utterly mouth-watering. Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, Vermont has one goal – to produce, age […]

  • The Evolution of Our Data-Driven Ecosystem

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Darren Herman is Founder, Varick Media Management and Chief Digital Media Officer of The Media Kitchen, kbs+p. Click To Enlarge  It’s that time of year again when business and trend forecasting articles start […]

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  • Display Will Overtake Search

    “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 Amiad Solomon, Founder & President at Peer39. Over the past ten years, the search advertising industry has grown tremendously. In no small part due to companies like Google […]

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  • From The Data Gardener - Today’s Tip: Check Your Soil

    “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 Marc Kiven, Founder and CRO BrightTag. Fall is upon us. It’s that time of year when experienced gardeners are preparing their plants for winter. It’s what you do […]

  • Attention Economics Pricing In Advertising: Cost Per Second

    “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 Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. Engagement is the unit of monetization in the ad world, yet engagement is not what is bought and sold in online […]

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