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  • Time For Alternative Attribution Models

    “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 Ronald Paul, CEO at Quisma, a European performance marketing agency and a subsidiary of WPP Group’s GroupM. When working in online advertising, if you try and evaluate individual channels […]

  • There Are No Awards For Data People In A Creative Agency

    “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 Marc Schwartz, who is EVP, Global Director of Performance Analytics at McCann Worldgroup. I recently left Cannes, where the majority of the Lions were awarded to creative agencies. Creative agencies […]

  • The Golden Age of Advertising Technology

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Terence Kawaja is Founder and CEO at LUMA Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on the digital media sectors. Ad tech is over. The landscape is overcrowded, venture capitalists have moved on, and […]

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  • The 'Temporary' Problem with Second Price Auctions

    Today’s column is in response to “Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model” and written by Andrew Casale, VP of Strategy, Casale Media. I am not an advocate of dynamic floors. Nor do I think switching RTB to first price auctions is likely to happen. Every auction that publishers have run on our platform, to date, has […]

  • Digital Publishers: Facebook’s Mobile Problem Is Your Problem, Too

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Michael Greene is Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. Many in the industry have watched with interest (and perhaps a bit of schadenfreude) as Facebook shares have plunged to under $27. Obviously, multiple factors […]

  • Facebook Age Calls for New Metrics

    “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. In the world of social media and social networks, native advertising models are taking over. Anything I can do as a consumer – […]

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  • The Attribution Error

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Jeremy Stanley is SVP Product and Data Sciences for Collective. As an industry we have largely concluded that existing measurement solutions (CTR, view-through and click-through conversion) have glaring flaws. And so we have […]

  • 'Viewable Impression' Boosters Ignore Simple Math

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joshua Koran is VP Digital Product Management, Research and Data for AT&T AdWorks.  Much has been written about the “viewable impression” metric, which banishes impressions that go unnoticed by consumers. It relies on […]

  • Response: Will We Really Grow Display By Incentivizing Low Bidding?

    Today’s column is in response to “Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model” and written by Jonathan Wolf, Chief Buying Officer at Criteo, a buy-side, display ad tech company. Esco Strong at Microsoft wrote an interesting piece in a personal capacity on this site this week. While I am and remain a fan of Esco, and his […]

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  • Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Esco Strong, Director, Display Marketplace Strategy at Microsoft Advertising. Opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent those of his employer. Amidst some of the more popular discussion topics of today, I’m often surprised […]

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  • Looking Forward To A World Ruled By The Viewable Impression

    “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 Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. Ad impressions will drop by 50% or more. CPM’s will increase commensurately. ComScore 500 publishers will finally get the respect they deserve and recapture market […]

  • A New Model for Ad Buying Products

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Mario Diez is CEO of quadrantONE, a joint venture of Tribune Company, Gannett, Hearst and The New York Times Company, which offers exclusive ad inventory on news and information sites across U.S. local […]

  • The Digital Ad Industry Needs To Innovate For Consumers

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. David Levy is co-founder of SocialVibe, a digital advertising technology company. Jerry Neumann posed a question on AdExchanger the other day that should strike a chord with anyone who works in media and […]

  • Advertising Impact - Not 'Attribution'

    “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, […]

  • Regarding The Marketing Of 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 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 […]

  • Moving to "Viewable Impressions" Isn’t The Answer

    “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 […]

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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 […]

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