Opinion

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Daniel Heer, founder and CEO at Zeotap. A central topic at CES last month – which will undoubtedly become the next frontier for digital advertising – was the arrival of 5G. It should be […]

This article is sponsored by Prebid.org. 2018 wasn’t the year header bidding first began disrupting how exchanges and publishers thought about monetizing their inventory, but it may be remembered as the year it reached an inflection point. According to the ServerBid Header Bidding Industry Index, nearly 75% of the U.S.’s top 1,000 websites had adopted header […]

Last June, Well+Good was acquired for $10 million by Leaf Group, which will pay another $9 million if it hits performance targets through 2020. Bootstrapped, profitable and diversified, in terms of its revenue streams, the wellness publisher avoided the pitfalls of raising too much money, going all-in on Facebook or relying on only one source […]

“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 Oleg Korenfeld, global chief platforms officer at Wavemaker. I assume that digitally focused marketers usually don’t spend much time thinking about out-of-home (OOH) media, at least not compared to the time […]

Branded Entertainment Network (BEN), an LA-based agency that specializes in product placement and influencer marketing, wants to bring a more data-driven approach to Hollywood brand marketing. Last March the company promoted Ricky Ray Butler to CEO, three years after adding Butler with the acquisition of Plaid Social Labs, the social marketing tech company he founded. […]

“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 Sarah Rose, vice president of digital ad operations at IPG Mediabrands. The digital media ecosystem is inherently a marketplace of pixel exchange, where data is captured for audience collection and […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Radmir Nasyrov, CEO at Roxot. I believe Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), ITP 2.0, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and similar privacy initiatives will change programmatic advertising as we know it today. In a cookie-less […]

“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. Sir Francis Bacon is often credited with the phrase, “Knowledge is power.” It is […]

“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. Love is in the air – and not just in the seasonal aisle at Target. The smell of chocolate and roses got me thinking: Which advanced TV […]

“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 Gil Elbaz, CEO at Factual. Many believed that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would protect consumer privacy, rein in behemoths like Facebook, Google and Amazon and give competitors more […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Justin Choi, founder and CEO at Nativo. The age of the platform has, without a doubt, taken a serious toll on publishers. Direct content consumption on publisher sites gave way to content discovery via […]

“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 Dhawal Mujumdar, co-founder at Polymorph. To combat domain fraud, ads.txt was implemented as a tool for publishers to disclose which exchanges are authorized to sell their inventory. Why don’t we […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Paul Alfieri, chief marketing officer at Cadent. Addressable TV advertising is gaining momentum, with total annual spend projected to exceed $3 billion, according to eMarketer. But like any emerging medium, the noise and hype can […]

“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 Richard B. Newman, internet marketing attorney at Hinch Newman. Geofencing is becoming increasingly popular as a means by which to deliver hypertargeted advertising content. At the same time, today’s data […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Phil Bohn, senior vice president of sales and revenue for Mediavine. Flooring is one of publishers’ most important yet least-discussed programmatic revenue strategies. Open auctions fill a large amount of ad inventory for almost […]

“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 Wheeler, CEO at 33Across. Economic downturns are both cyclical and inevitable. Since getting my first advertising job in 1993, I’ve been through a few recessions. With the exception of Sept. […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Lance Neuhauser, CEO at 4C Insights. To maintain incremental growth, today’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) darlings are looking to expand beyond the digital sandbox where they grew up. After years of slathering on the search and Facebook ads, DTC […]

“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 Dominique Shelton Leipzig, partner at Perkins Coie. Major data breaches can tarnish brand reputations and call into question the safety of their data practices. And given the bevy of privacy and […]

Blavity CEO Morgan DeBaun saw a gap in the media market: a lack of content for black millennials like herself. In 2014, she left her tech job to launch Blavity. “We needed a place, a platform and a media brand that could speak to our stories as part of the young, black creative culture,” DeBaun […]

This article is sponsored by GSTV. It turns out fueling up can predict more about consumer behavior than marketers might expect.   A recent study produced by Mastercard and GSTV revealed fueling up leads to significant patterns in consumer spending. After analyzing nearly a year’s worth of aggregated, anonymized transaction data on Mastercard’s network, the […]

“On TV And Video“ is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chuck Moxley, chief marketing officer at 4INFO. The good news: Today’s TV viewers are more reachable across more addressable channels than ever before, broadening how and where they consume media. The bad news: Many […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Offer Yehudai, president at Fyber. 2018 has seen a spate of ad networks purchasing supply chain companies. For instance, Criteo acquired Managed, AppLovin bought MAX and Tapjoy joined forces with Tapdaq. At first glance, these acquisitions can be […]

“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 Sweeney, CEO at Xaxis, North America Despite prevalent misconceptions, programmatic advertising requires deep human input to properly manage, guide and meld the wealth of technologies and strategies in service […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andrew Hoeberichts, general manager of advanced TV at ADARA. What’s an advertiser to do when media planning meets audience targeting? It’s the best and worst case scenario. You get great content and great audiences, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alysia Borsa, chief marketing and data officer at Meredith Corp.  As the industry clamors for more transparency in the supply chain, publishers should take the lead. Publishers are sitting on high-quality, proprietary data sets. Their […]

“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 Rivi Bloch, CEO at Taptica. Get a marketer from a big brand in a room with a mobile app developer and, odds are, you will see the two have very […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rob Norman, GroupM senior adviser. It’s advisable during a full or partial eclipse to not look directly at the sun, but rather to view it after turning your back and using a pinhole projection. […]

“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 Cory Munchbach, senior vice president of strategy at BlueConic. Marketers are grappling with the roles that different technologies play in marketing operations, campaigns, measurement and more. While CMOs and their organizations […]

“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. Some consider ad blockers to be the first user-led mass rebellion against bad advertising practices, booming around 2015 and not stopping since. But ad blocking […]

This article is sponsored by MoPub. As time spent in mobile apps continues to soar, in-app ad spend has followed. In fact, in-app’s share of mobile video advertising alone is projected to grow to 84% by 2023, according to a report by Forrester. Yet despite steady growth in this category over the last few years, the […]