“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 Oz Etzioni, CEO at Clinch. 2021 is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for advertising technology. After several fallow years for ad tech companies and a necessary period of […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Jo Kinsella, President, TVSquared. Since the dawn of TV, Nielsen ratings have been the gold standard for marketers. They measured the percentage of a group (e.g., women aged 18-49) or households in a particular designated […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rich Calkins, Director of Product Management, OpenX. For ad tech wonks who spend countless hours in industry working groups, getting deep in the weeds to solve problems is all but required. But when it […]
“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 Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis + Gilbert. Since the early days of the internet, when federal regulators expressed concern that […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. The words we use matter. Last month, for example, the Media Rating Council recategorized the term “over-the-top” as “connected TV,” which is what most people in the industry mean when they refer to streaming. The distinction is important, because it helps buyers […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Sona Pehlivanian, vice president, addressable campaign management and operations at New York Interconnect. As the move toward a privacy-first digital landscape gains steam on multiple fronts, many ad industry players are turning to the TV […]
This article is sponsored by Oracle Advertising. CTV is undoubtedly becoming a critical slice of the advertising pie. After months at home in lockdown, without restaurants, movie theaters or live events to attend, television – more specifically, CTV – was the real winner. Between Q3 2019 and Q3 2020, streaming adoption increased 11% among viewers […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by David Levy, CEO at OpenAP. The pandemic boom in streaming TV drove a massive investment in programming. US production companies produced 537 shows last year, up from just 381 the year before – despite the […]
”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 Sharon Harris, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Jellyfish. Data privacy is front and center in every digital technology conversation today. CMOs are now the stewards of the brand-consumer relationship and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Damian Benders, general manager of B Code Media. The world’s commitment to addressing social injustice has been magnified and reinvigorated. After the movement gained massive momentum in the past year, more advertisers acknowledged the […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Jean-Christophe Peube, SVP, Analytics & Customer Experience, Smart. Gangsters always follow the money. And today, all roads lead the digital ad fraudsters to the over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) space, where prices are high and […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Frank Sgrizzi, Advisor, Topwater Advisory Group and former EVP of Sales and Client Partnerships at WarnerMedia. “On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Chowla, Sr. Director of Product Management, PubMatic. Header bidding is now widespread and successful on the web, and Prebid.js is the most widely used solution. However, the majority of publishers using Prebid are […]
“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 Warren Lapa, CEO, Unique. When Google announced its plans to block third-party tracking in Chrome, the ad tech ecosystem immediately pivoted to first-party data and derived personal identifiers. The pitch […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Lynn Chealander, Director, Product Management, Xandr. Imagine the Air Buddies franchise churns out a 15th movie, and you’re rightly excited to see it on the big screen. But when you get to the theater, you […]
This article is sponsored by Connexity. The Google/Facebook/Amazon hegemony isn’t falling anytime soon, but the familiarity of ad offerings and constant swerves in consumer behavior are driving retailers to investigate new tactics. “Google, Facebook and Amazon are obviously still important to digital strategy, but they’re becoming increasingly crowded and challenging,” according to Bob Caputo, EVP, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kean Wang, VP, Product & Strategy, Intowow Innovation. When Google Ad Exchange completed the last mile of the industry’s transition from second-price auctions to first-price auctions in September 2019, publishers were enthusiastic about the […]
“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 Trevor Testwuide, CEO and Co-Founder, Measured. With less customer tracking and online data collection, advertisers are rethinking their ad targeting and attribution methods. The time has come to revisit a measurement approach […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Lara O’Shea, Executive Strategy Director, VMLY&R. Those who lived in noughties Britain will remember the scenes in Little Britain where David Walliams played customer service advisor Carol Beers; she lived behind her computer screen, […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Oleg Sokolan, Director of Demand Partnerships at Admixer. Linear TV was on its way out for years, but the pandemic truly accelerated the loss of impressions and the massive consumer switch to connected TV (CTV). […]
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 AJ Brown, CEO and co-founder of LeadsRx. The mother of all “what ifs” for enterprise marketers is: What if all consumer tracking went away, eliminating the possibility of identifying anonymous […]
“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 Darren Goldie, CEO/Founder, Locationify. Prior to the digital revolution, location data was explicit – it referred to fixed physical stores. Today, location data matters because people check their phones before […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Premesh Purayil, CTO, Freestar. As we all know, Google’s Core Web Vitals scores and related changes to search result prioritization have thrust site speed and user experience to the forefront for all publishers. Ask […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Andre Swanston, CEO and Co-Founder of Tru Optik, a TransUnion company. We’re in a golden era of streaming. More US broadband households now subscribe to over-the-top (OTT) than a pay-TV service. Digitization has shepherded in […]
This article is sponsored by GroundTruth. As consumers continue to evolve the way they shop and interact with brands, accuracy has become more critical than ever for advertisers and publishers. Relationships across the ad tech spectrum now strongly depend on truth in data, and increasingly this applies not only to online data but to location-based […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Matlick, CEO and co-founder, Bombora. Google’s decision to delay third-party cookie deprecation may feel like a life raft to many in the ad industry, but the longer timeline feels bittersweet to publishers. Endemic […]
This article is sponsored by RTB House. Google’s recently updated timeline for phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome wasn’t the end of the story. Late on Friday, July 23, Google launched a dedicated website with a more detailed running timeline, which it plans to update every month. It announced the website’s launch via tweet rather […]
“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 Dor Birnboim, US VP, Strategic Partnerships, ironSource Attribution is a key part of successfully scaling and optimizing user acquisition campaigns for the highest quality users. But there is no one-size-fits-all […]
“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 Kelly Herrick, Global Recruiting Lead, Prohaska Consulting, and Founder of Searchlight 2021 is turning out to be a great reset for many companies. The industry is coming back in full […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Felix Zeng, head of programmatic at IBM Watson Advertising. The downward-sliding scale of third-party identifiers is leaving publishers and marketers scrambling to figure out what will replace the digital currencies that we’ve relied on […]
As performance takes center-stage in more advertising discussions, demands to solve fragmentation and cruddy measurement are reaching a fever pitch.
A word of caution to digital advertising companies, as they go all in on AI algorithms: They need to build these solutions with ownership, governance and accountability from the start – or AI could sink them with a single mistake.
To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.
Roblox is making its under-13 audience available to advertisers for the first time. And it named youth-focused ad marketplace SuperAwesome as its exclusive advertising partner for under-13 users.
Prebid is turning the page on what might be called its second chapter as the organization navigates some major changes in the digital advertising landscape and within its own ranks.
Performance CTV tech company Keynes launched an AI-powered platform. Tuckernuck says it can finally “pop open the hood” and see what’s working.
