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 Bruno Gralpois, co-founder and principal at Agency Mania Solutions. Breakups happen, especially between clients and their agencies. But what is most shocking is that nearly one third of agency-client relationships last […]

NBCUniversal wants its content to appear wherever viewers want it: places like YouTube, Roku, NBC apps, Snapchat, mobile phones and work computers, in addition to linear streams in their living room. But scheduling ads that will light up across all of these platforms is a highly fragmented, manual process. So NBCUniversal hired former Kargo President […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. As we close the chapter on the last decade, congrats to the publishers that are still standing. Now it’s time to take a step in: A fundamentally different approach is needed 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 Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. Some point to browser privacy changes and comments from regulators as evidence that real-time bidding and tracking are ending. Indeed, the long-anticipated “death […]

“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 Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. The tide is turning in an ecosystem that should work harmonically but has for years favored one side at the expense […]

“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 Matt Voda, CEO at OptiMine Software. The 2019 holiday season is nearly complete, and in only a matter of days, thousands of companies doing business in the United States will be […]

“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Looking back on 2019, any TV media professional will tell you the past year has been anything but “same ’ol, same ’ol.” Everything from acquisitions to tech […]

“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 Justin Choi, founder and CEO at Nativo. The pace of change in advertising is accelerating, but technology is no longer the sole driver. Instead, privacy regulations and heated competition among […]

The watchword at entertainment and sports media company Whistle is distribution. “We go direct-to-consumer on whichever platforms our audience prefers to do their watching,” said Alison Meyer, who leads brand marketing solutions at Whistle. Originally known for its influencer-led sports content, Whistle has since branched out into lifestyle, humor and general entertainment – anything “positive and […]

Ten years ago, national TV was a steal. Today, marketers are getting priced out by skyrocketing ad rates, even as audiences decline. Despite ratings falling by double-digits across geos and dayparts, TV networks have maintained flat revenues by raising the cost of their inventory, said James Fennessy, CEO at Standard Media Index (SMI), a data […]

“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 Fayez Mohamood, CEO at Bluecore. When ecommerce-first or pure-play brands such as Warby Parker, Glossier or Bonobos move to physical retail locations, they’re often referred to as innovators. Alternatively, when […]

“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 Jared Belsky, CEO at 360i. In most marketing organizations, brand and performance are pitted against each other, and budgets are chopped up accordingly. It’s an ingrained practice that ultimately gives large […]

“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 Tom Triscari, co-founder and managing partner at Labmatik. Programmatic often feels like a Churchillian riddle, wrapped in a data mystery, inside a $100 billion enigma. Perhaps this is why log data […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Lucie Laurendon, senior product marketing manager at Smart. Google’s surprising move to a first-price unified auction was met with cautious optimism and doses of skepticism. Dropping last-look advantage in Google Ad Manager’s second-price auction […]

“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 Kerel Cooper, SVP of global marketing at LiveIntent. Technology, obviously, has its barriers. It takes skill, patience, resolve and education to really compete and innovate in our complicated field. For […]

“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Bloxham, senior vice president of global media and entertainment at Magid. With all the talk of the streaming wars and the arrival of services from the leviathans of the media business, it’s easy […]

“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 Briggs Davidson, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting. Very soon, the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States yet – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — will be a […]

“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Some kids go straight from high school to Harvard. Others take a gap year ­to “find themselves,” tinker in their friend’s garage or simply […]

This article is sponsored by SpotX. To learn more about the future of TV and cross-screen video, read “SpotX’s Guide to 2020 Trends in Video Advertising.”  Spurred by a new wave of OTT content and subscription services, 2019 might be remembered as the year OTT and connected TV (CTV) finally achieved widespread consumer adoption. According […]

“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 Dan Linton, global data privacy officer at W2O Group. Bemoaning the impending sunsetting of the advertising cookie and decrying the supposed cognitive dissonance of consumers wanting more personalization and privacy at […]

“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Maggie Zhang, executive vice president of video research and insights at Dentsu Aegis Network. Nowadays, anyone can easily find enthusiastic advocates for TV attribution at every turn, myself included. As we celebrate the newfound capabilities to […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brendan Spain, vice president of advertising for the Americas at the Financial Times. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 came to a head when mortgage-backed securities that had received AAA ratings were jammed with […]

“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 Matt Greitzer, co-founder at Actable Data. The onslaught of technology companies disrupting the marketing services landscape continues unabated. Despite consolidation – and some capitulation – in advertising technology, the adjacent […]

Millennials are all about streaming on the sofa, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still go to the movies. The addressable audience in movie theaters is massive, said Jerry Canning, VP of digital ad sales at National CineMedia (NCM), a cinema advertising network that curates pre-show featurettes, movie news and trivia across more than 21,000 […]

“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 Joseph Ranzenbach, director of product management, mobile and video, at Integral Ad Science. The Open Measurement initiative was created to solve for an industry-level challenge: Consumer attention had gone mobile […]

“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 Kurt Donnell, president at Freestar. Right or wrong, the general public associates the term “cookie” with a perceived online privacy invasion. But cookies, along with other tracking technologies, provide the […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). Wouldn’t it be nice to have one TV platform for advertisers to use that competes with Google and Facebook? While […]

“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 Andy Littlewood, head of knowledge at MediaCom US. Not many things are linear in 2019, and certainly not when it comes to the complex question of connecting brands with consumers. […]

The demand-side platform (DSP) category was starting to get pretty boring. Forrester stopped conducting DSP waves last year, due to the minimal differentiation and innovation. And VC investments have all but dried up. But the programmatic ecosystem has geared back up as tech companies eye “the next battleground” of cross-channel video, said Philip Smolin, Amobee’s […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chip Schenck, senior vice president of data and programmatic solutions at Meredith Corp. In the ad tech supply chain, supply-side platforms (SSPs) have traditionally served as a proxy for the publisher, helping manage ad […]