Opinion

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by James McLoughlin, director of data science at Inscape. Smart TV viewing data can measure the viewing habits of a target audience, but not everyone who integrates it into a targeted marketing campaign realizes 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 Greg Anderson, managing director at Xaxis.  The constant growth in the numbers of devices and media outlets has rapidly changed the ways in which consumers can access content. That has […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Patrick O’Leary, founder and CEO at boostr. Much has changed in selling media and advertising. The original relationship-focused DNA of the typical ad seller is no longer sufficient to thrive. Programmatic has flipped the equation, requiring strong analytical and numerical skills. […]

“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 Carl Spaulding, executive vice president of strategy at NCSolutions. Advertisers need a refresher course on the difference between attribution and causation – and why proving the latter is so much […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Lindsey Harju, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Time-sensitive marketing triggers are nothing new. Ever moved and received a mailbox full of offers? In the last few months, my business partner and I have sold […]

“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 all know, “cookies are crumbling” – third-party cookies specifically. But the crumbling goes far beyond cookies and into other ways of tracking users, including fingerprinting, link decoration, localStorage and other […]

“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 Rob Hyams, chief creative officer and partner at McMillan. B2B marketers’ worlds are filled with complexity – in the competitive landscape, products, pricing, channels, customers and their organizations, not to mention […]

“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Bender, partner, global head of publisher strategy and business development at Prohaska Consulting. As we hyper-target, we can’t forget to hyper-message. While programmatic has revolutionized the way media is transacted over the past decade, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Keith Abbey, vice president of publisher growth at Sovrn. With less than six months to California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement, the law is still nebulous and far from its final shape. But that […]

“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 Carl Smith, owner, Bureau of Digital. Corporations have long been known to poach talent from marketing and advertising agencies every five years or so, a practice that continues today with a […]

Jodie McAfee, SVP of sales and marketing at Vizio-owned Inscape, likes to stay “within whispering distance” of the engineering team. “I don’t ever want to be out there promising what I can’t deliver,” said McAfee, who joined Vizio in 2015 after more than four years helping build Samsung’s ad platform. But that doesn’t stop the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and, soon, California seem to be doing their best to rain on the programmatic parade. […]

“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 Pieter de Zwart, chief technology officer at Eyeota. The ad tech industry today is effectively chasing quarters into oncoming traffic. We are taking user concerns like privacy entirely too lightly, or […]

When Remedy Health acquired Vertical Health in April, a key reason was the health site’s expertise in using data and targeting. Remedy Health, which didn’t run programmatic ads before, is now adopting Vertical Health’s in-house data platform for its sites, including HealthCentral and HIV management site TheBody. Vertical Health’s portfolio focuses on information for people […]

“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ocean Fine, senior vice president of sales and demand at Factual. Linear TV has always attracted ad budget from the Johnson & Johnsons and Campbell Soups of the world. In the digital era, those players 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 Mitchell Reichgut, founder and CEO at Jun Group. There’s a parable about a master calligrapher who sold his work for enormous sums of money. One day, a man asked the calligrapher […]

It’s a cliche to say that data is fuel but, in GasBuddy’s case, that’s literally true. The GasBuddy app, which helps drivers crowdsource information about cheap fuel prices, has access to opted-in location data from more than 15 million monthly active users. Users are more than willing to share their data, because they’re receiving a utility […]

“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 Rishad Tobaccowala, chief growth officer at Publicis Groupe. Today, leaders are more challenged than they have ever been, with many of the next generations skeptical of our capabilities, integrity and […]

“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Maggie Zhang, senior vice president of video research and insights at Dentsu Aegis Network. Call it irony, but the topic of capturing a customer’s attention now dominates the attention of brand marketers. As anyone in 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 Dave Helmreich, group vice president at Oracle Marketing Cloud. As the popularity of mobile shopping continues to skyrocket, there’s one key thing to remember: While the outcome is the same […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christopher Guenther, senior vice president, global head of programmatic, at News Corp. One of the oldest tenets of business has been to put the customer first – and it holds especially true for media. Publishers […]

“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 Scott Tieman, global head of programmatic services at Accenture Interactive. The death of cookies is beginning to have real impacts for brands, publishers and everyone in between. Ultimately, it will […]

It’s a safe bet that the next generation of TV advertising and analytics will be an incredibly lucrative category. But that’s about the only safe bet anyone can make. “There are a lot of question marks around this space,” said Elgin Thompson, managing director of technology investment banking at JMP Securities. There are fundamental questions […]

“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. If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were a private business, it would be having […]

Digital media brands are course-correcting to focus on profitability – and PopSugar is no exception. The media brand has been profitable for a year by following the playbook of diversifying revenue and improving the margin on existing revenue. Offline, the millennial women-focused publication is cashing in on the generation’s obsession with experiences, throwing a signature […]

“On TV and Video” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. High-stakes political elections are around the corner. To motivate voter turnout and drive home key candidate and issue messages, ad spend levels are anticipated to break records. […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Kershaw, chief technology officer for Rubicon Project. It’s hardly revolutionary to predict the end of the third-party cookie. Digital advertising’s fundamental currency for the last ten years is under increasing strain. Regulators are […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hines, advertising practice lead at Infinitive. The rise of interactive programming has raised eyebrows in media circles. Netflix’s choose-your-own episode of “Black Mirror” and the previous experiment with “Puss in Book” are widely […]

Consequence of Sound prides itself on its independent coverage of the music and film industries. But it doesn’t have the mass reach and recognition that easily entices buyers to go direct. On the open marketplace, it kills: Over 1,500 advertisers spend more than $100 per month on the open exchange with Consequence of Sound. As […]

“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 Katie Malone, director of data science research and development, at Civis Analytics. Seven years ago, I was hanging out at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, working as a graduate student researcher […]