“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 Hollrah, vice president, product marketing and analyst relations, at Demandbase. One contingent must be particularly attuned to brand safety risks: B2B advertisers. Though some typically think of B2B buyers […]
“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 George Leon, chief strategy officer at Hawthorne. The fall is a huge time for sports. There’s the World Series, weekend football games, the beginning of the grueling NBA and NHL seasons and NASCAR winding […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. As anyone who sits through an upfront discussion with a TV rep will tell you, there are two kinds of annual rate increases. They’ll likely say during even-numbered […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. After several months of debate, speculation and conflicting positions following the earthquake caused by privacy regulation changes and global trends, the industry seems to cluster […]
“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 Erin Essex, product design manager at Shutterstock. Like chess, cooking and skiing, user experience (UX) can be easily understood but hard to master. It’s simple to comprehend, right? An app […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ronan Higgins, CEO at TVadSync. The MRC recently released final standards for cross-media audience measurement of TV and Video. These standards will require work for all players in the market to get a passing grade, including […]
This article is sponsored by Facebook. More than 2.7 billion people now use Facebook and its family of platforms – including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp – every month.[1] In this age of platform-based interactions, Facebook ad campaigns and customer service features are no longer a “nice-to-have,” they have become a necessary touchpoint to build customer […]
As media properties march to the drumbeat of revenue diversification, many are pursuing affiliate revenue aggressively. Meanwhile, Ziff Media Group has run a thriving affiliate commerce business for years, all the while increasing its level of data-driven sophistication. Ziff Media Group drives $1 billion in last-click attributed revenue a year. In contrast, BuzzFeed’s business totaled […]
This article is sponsored by Oracle Data Cloud. The digital world can be a scary place, so it’s no wonder that brands and agencies are clamoring to find solutions that protect brand equity without sacrificing the scale advertisers need to stay top of mind for consumers. In doing so, many are relying on stringent keyword […]
“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 Eric Berry, co-founder and CEO at TripleLift. There are several intersecting issues relating to identity in ad tech today. The challenge is that the solutions often fail to align directly […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sean Buckley, chief revenue officer at SpotX. The streaming wars have taken a nostalgic turn over the past few months. Subscription services are inking billion-dollar deals for beloved sitcoms such as “Friends,” “Seinfeld” and […]
“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 Mukund Ramachandran, chief marketing officer at Dynamic Yield. Breakneck innovation in ecommerce has flipped the fundamental calculus of retail and punished brands unable to adapt. With once-dominant brands such as Payless […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Spande, chief revenue officer and publisher at Insider Inc. The “death of cookies” may be second only to “year of mobile” as ad industry prediction fails. Both forecasts felt tired after too many false […]
“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 Jeff Nicholson, CEO at Tracer and chief media officer at VaynerMedia. These days, most people communicate with their best friends via messaging. I’d even go as far as to say that […]
The programmatic ecosystem’s maturation into the television industry happened slowly before speeding up rapidly. Dataxu is a fitting example of the trend. The longstanding demand-side platform (DSP) has reshaped its business and client mix in the past two years. Once a pure-play DSP, dataxu now has supply-side deals that put it in the tech stacks […]
“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 Sol Ross, managing director at LiveRamp. More than a year into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), its strengths and weaknesses continue to be evaluated. While the law is […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Samantha Stockman, group director at The Media Kitchen. The over-the-top (OTT) landscape is rapidly changing, ushering in a slew of new subscription and ad-supported video-on-demand services – and an abundance of advertising opportunities. There 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 Harry Kargman, founder and CEO at Kargo. The advertising industry is facing sweeping and unprecedented changes, where user targeting is being challenged with extinction. We need to accept the fact that the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Gatz, CEO and founder at Q.Digital. It was the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month and a major brand advertiser was sponsoring our Pride coverage, running creative with diverse LGBTQ representation. It was a […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO at Tatari. Until recently, television was considered an offline medium. Not anymore. Thanks to automatic content recognition technology and the shift to streaming TV, whether mobile, PC or connected […]
“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 Ramsey McGrory, chief revenue officer at Mediaocean. Major internet service providers (ISPs) will be intently watching Amazon’s corporate facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif., for the next four-plus months as it tests […]
“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 Kevin Hill, founder and CEO at VuPulse. Sure, I’d love to be able to tell you that attribution has been solved and all your marketing and ROI worries are done and […]
Viacom’s Bryson Gordon will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 15 and 16. Around five years ago, advanced TV was still “a science experiment,” said Bryson Gordon, Viacom’s EVP of advanced advertising. But during this year’s upfront cycle, data-driven buying through Vantage, Viacom’s advanced advertising platform, more than doubled. “Marketers […]
“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 Brian Monahan, global client president and head of US ventures at Dentsu Aegis Network. Technology is often overhyped in the short term and underhyped in the long term. While the […]
For many communities, the math doesn’t work anymore for ad-supported local news. Roughly 1,800 local papers closed between 2004 and 2018, replaced by only 400 online-only sites, according to a UNC study. “The news desert issue is real,” said Patch President Warren St. John. For Patch, the dearth of local content presents an opportunity 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 Kazu Takiguchi, CEO and founder at Creadits. Google giveth and Google taketh. The world’s biggest search engine can make or break an advertising campaign, and, luckily for digital marketers, Google […]
“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 Nathan Woodman, an independent consultant and former chief data officer at Havas Media Group. We don’t talk about it much, but there is a growing bias in the data that […]
“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). Smart marketers today are trying to understand the impact of their advertising across a fragmented ecosystem of platforms. In particular, we want 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 Vijoy Gopalakrishnan, senior vice president and principal at the IRI Media Center of Excellence. Fifteen years ago, ad tech was a manual affair. Piecing together ad serving was such a […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Eric Schmitt, senior director analyst at Gartner. Advertising today is filled with uncertainty. Some of the greatest unknowns revolve around consumers’ rapid adoption of streaming video, enabled by Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and Amazon. This […]
TelevisaUnivision and Disney took over Day Two of upfronts week in New York City on Tuesday, and the throughline was data quality.
Warner Bros. Discovery used its upfront stage to announce two new ad measurement efforts, including that it’s joining a CAPI-focused initiative led by OpenAP.
AdExchanger Senior Editor Alyssa Boyle and Associate Editor Victoria McNally traversed the island of Manhattan on Monday to scope out upfront presentations by NBCUniversal, Fox and Amazon.
Viant’s modest growth story took a backseat to a far louder claim: that fed-up advertisers are finally ready to ditch the rigged economics of Big Tech’s walled gardens.
Amazon Ads expects this year’s television upfronts to be an outcomes-focused affair. That may explain why the company preempted its Monday evening presentation by announcing the launch of a new ad product called Dynamic TV Creative.
For companies like Shopify, Criteo and Instacart – and even for giants like Amazon and Walmart – figuring out if the agentic oasis is real or a mirage is their priority No. 1.
