“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Elizabeth Zalman is co-Founder at Media Armor, a mobile advertising technology company. “The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, […]
“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 Rob Schmults, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Intent Media, an online ad platform for ecommerce publishers. “Intent Marketing” – matching offers (and a little later in history, ads) to the […]
“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. I am biased, I’ll admit it. I wrote the first technical impression counting standards for the IAB in 1998. And I […]
“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 […]
“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 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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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) […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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, […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
OpenX CTO Joel Meyer, who was named Prebid’s new chairman, previews the org’s next phase and helping publishers navigate competing agentic protocols.
Alphonso – LG’s ad tech division – finally has a way out of its legal drama with parent company LG Electronics. Actually, it has three potential options.
Much like the ecosystem of life that surrounds a blue whale, a market of AI SaaS vendors is springing up around the biggest AI companies. And AI data startup Micro1 is emblematic of the shifting nature of these early-stage AI vendors.
How long does it take you to decide what to watch after you turn your TV on?
Just in time for new TV programming to hit the screens in September, Nielsen is rolling out a few upgrades to its video measurement currency that will go live by the end of August
According to Horizon Media’s Bob Lord, most agencies are trying to solve the wrong problem by obsessing over cost efficiency at a time when AI has quietly unlocked something far more valuable: the ability to become a growth partner to advertisers.
