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 Martin Albrecht, managing partner and co-founder at Crossmedia. Media agencies undoubtedly will come under scrutiny after an Association of National Advertisers (ANA) report on rebate practices comes out on Tuesday. […]

“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 Bridget Bidlack, vice president of global product management at Experian Marketing Services. First-party data is one of an organization’s most important marketing assets yet many struggle to activate it effectively. […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. The recent acquisition of TiVo by the company Rovi triggered an odd memory for me. There was an off-leash beach near our apartment […]

“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 Phil Schraeder, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at GumGum. You’re more likely to win the lottery than click on a banner ad. That may be funny, but it’s […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Gabe Bender, product strategy lead at Sharethrough. Although programmatic advertising is approaching critical mass, the industry has failed to standardize auction pricing, and the debate continues over hard-price floors, soft-price floors and everything in […]

“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 Jamie Hill, CEO at adMarketplace. Over the past few years, there has been a recurring narrative in the ad tech trades: Ad tech is having a midlife crisis. An ad […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ted Dhanik, CEO at engage:BDR. Publishers, here’s why fill rate is low. Advertisers, this is why viewability is dismal and campaigns aren’t serving effectively. As browsers drop support for Flash, ad servers aren’t keeping […]

“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 Bob Buch, CEO at Manifest Commerce, a division of Rakuten Marketing.  If Sun Tzu were to update “The Art of War” to include modern-day digital advertising, he would say, “When […]

Bloomberg Media wants to reach its target audience of affluent businesspeople wherever they happen to be over the course of the day. That might mean mobile and TV in the morning, radio on the way to work, websites during the workday and magazines at night. “Our brand has the ability and importance to connect 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 Marc Goldberg, chief revenue officer at Trust Metrics. Bad actors in digital media know that media buyers rely so much on numbers that they are often blind to obvious problems. […]