Opinion

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Grant Whitmore, chief digital operations officer at Tribune Publishing. For more than a decade a persistent imbalance in data and technology has dogged the programmatic marketplace, putting publishers at a distinct information disadvantage. 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 Simone Chaffiotte, vice president and director, audience strategy at Carat USA. When companies arrange their marketing organizations by separating brand building and performance into distinct departments, teams often define their […]

On paper, the OpenAP consortium makes perfect sense: TV networks banded together to stave off growing competition from the walled gardens. In reality, it’s a bit more complicated. Although OpenAP still counts three powerhouse publishers among its ranks – Viacom, NBCU and Fox – a founding member, WarnerMedia, left the group in April to compete […]

This article is sponsored by Facebook.  Creating a strong customer experience across all of the digital moments that matter is essential to prevent customers from dropping off. Few digital channels play a more pivotal role than Facebook and Instagram in funneling customers through this journey. According to one survey by Ipsos, nearly 75% of monthly […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Weaver, senior vice president of business growth and development at Al Jazeera Media Network. Following the 2016 presidential election, the impact of so-called “fake news” reverberated around the world. As a result, society […]

“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 John Bonanno, manager, analytics, at Integral Ad Science. Summer might be almost upon us, but it’s never a bad time for spring cleaning and to ask ourselves whether that sweater […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris LaHaise, director of TV solutions at dataxu. Advertisers have long known that their media plans waste valuable TV impressions. A recent study by CBS and Simulmedia put that number between 47-60%. But that […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. There has been a lot of noise about the upcoming updates to Google’s auction dynamics, including the practical details of what’s changing 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 John Nardone, CEO at Flashtalking. In the wake of Sizmek’s bankruptcy filing and pending acquisition of its ad server and dynamic content optimization solution by Amazon, there’s been no shortage […]

“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. When buyers place their bets on a new tactic, they are eager to get insights to help determine if their campaign worked. Connected TV (CTV) is no different. This new entrant […]

Highsnobiety curates and recommends the latest sneakers, streetwear and men’s fashion to its readers. Now David Fischer, the founder and CEO of the 14-year-old media brand, is using that expertise to create its own ecommerce, direct-to-consumer business. Highsnobiety’s first product “drop” in May, a partnership with Prada’s streetwear imprint “Linea Rossa,” sold out of 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 Nancy Marzouk, founder and CEO at MediaWallah. Without a doubt, identity is the capability du jour. It seems like identity is everywhere, and a slew of new identity players – […]

“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 Martino, vice president of digital investment at Blue 449. The commitment to data privacy took a big step a few weeks ago when Google announced changes to the Chrome browser […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Jackie Paulino, senior vice president of customer success at Pixability. As the industry transitions from linear TV to the new idiosyncrasies of connected TV (CTV), marketers can’t afford to get caught flat-footed. CTV requires […]

“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. Amazon bought Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) tool last week. If you’re not a Sizmek customer, this may not seem like a big deal. 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 Todd Tran, chief strategy officer at Teads. AI is driving innovation in every industry, but in advertising, it’s still a bit murky. Brands need to understand what AI means and […]

  If mobile and display advertising was the first stage of programmatic technology, connected TV (CTV) and broadcast advertising could be considered the second. But there is one big question: Will ad networks – a mainstay of early digital programmatic display advertising – spring up in the data-driven TV tech ecosystem? One early contender in […]

“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. Does behavioral targeting make publishers more money? That’s a huge question with many potential ramifications, most significantly the conversations about government regulation of user tracking. A study released last week examined that […]

This article is sponsored by TiVo. Pay-TV customers have never had more options. According to a study by Ampere Analysis, streaming content now includes more than 160,000 subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) titles. Nearly one quarter of TV viewers now subscribe to four or more SVOD services. Yet content discovery hasn’t changed much from its cable TV […]

“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. Google’s recent test of ads on the home screen of an Android-powered Sony TV should have been an eye-opening event for TV service providers intent on growing “time […]

“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 could argue that media brands’ first-party user-level data is of high quality, but probably not unique if compared to Google’s, Facebook’s or Amazon’s. What […]

“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 Ana Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers. The product management discipline owes its roots to marketing: To justify new headcount, Neil H. McElroy, a Procter & Gamble junior account […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tony Chen, CEO at Channel Factory. With Facebook opening Watch to any video creator, its video strategy now competes directly with YouTube. Watch already has 75 million daily users, but with more than 2 billion […]

“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 Ben Eisenkramer, principal at Infinitive. From email newsletters and content management, to campaign design and cross-channel user tracking, to media buying and activation, there’s almost no end to what you […]

The New York Post promoted Sean Giancola to publisher and CEO in January after Jesse Angelo left the company. Giancola, who describes his background as “part publishing, part digital,” now oversees a newsroom for the first time. He’s also taking over several existing projects that will launch this year, he said. Revenue diversification is a […]

“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. Nearly a decade of “Game of Thrones” has come and gone without a single interruptive ad. That alone is noteworthy. But it’s not as though it hasn’t been monetized with ads ­– […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Courtney Glaze, vice president of revenue operations at Vox Media. It’s not always lasting love at first sight. The media dating pool is big, and consumers have unlimited options. Companies need to use every […]

At any given moment, 1 million people are watching Twitch, tuning in to the half a million people who stream themselves playing video games every day. The audience can be on par with a national cable network, according to a Nielsen study of concurrent viewers conducted in January. Twitch checks three coveted boxes for advertisers: […]

“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 Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. Marijuana legalization is heating up across the country. As of this month, 33 states permit marijuana use for medicinal or recreational purposes, and […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Paul Cimino, president at Cimino Collaborative and head of data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. I saw the vulnerabilities of cookies as far back as 2013. In an article titled, “The Cookie Has Five Years […]