“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 Victor Wong, CEO at Thunder Experience Cloud. Some might not consider the US government to be a technological innovator. Yet as it arguably tracks more information about US citizens than any […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Prasad, chief strategy officer at VideoAmp. In a multibillion-dollar ad market where digital will finally overtake traditional ad spend, TV remains the highest-valued medium, particularly as it evolves to become an even more […]
“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 Ellis is the co-founder and COO of Remesh. In recent months, Procter & Gamble chief brand officer Marc Pritchard has shared his prediction that we’re evolving into a “world […]
“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. Over the last few years, there has been a steady trend toward complexity on the sell side. The growth of programmatic unleashed an explosion of innovation, with new vendors emerging to solve […]
“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 Maja Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers. On Sunday Publicis Groupe announced it is buying data provider Epsilon in a $4.4 billion deal. It identified two main considerations that […]
“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. Advanced TV has experienced an explosion of change over the last couple of years, largely driven by consumer behavior shifts like the introduction of eSports. In eSports, […]
Healthline Media embarked on the road to recovery by taking a content-focused approach to health information. The profitable company racked up more than $100 million in revenue last year. With audience growth rates topping 60% year over year, Healthline is on the cusp of eclipsing slow-growing WebMD as the web’s top health property. The ascension […]
“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. As the timeless tale of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” goes, the young girl tastes three different bowls of porridge […]
“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 Paul Dolan, CEO at Varick. The rise of the platform economy has disrupted nearly every industry, but perhaps nowhere have the effects been as evident and widespread as they have in reimagining […]
“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. Innovation and disruption are lauded virtues in technology, but they present hard realities in the media business. Today’s 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 Amanda Martin, vice president of enterprise partnerships at Goodway Group. Recently attending an executive-level ad tech dinner, I found myself in an all-too familiar situation: I was the only woman […]
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands reshaped the way many digital media agencies buy online and pioneered social media, ecommerce and first-party data strategies. Now those same companies are bringing a new mindset to television. “It can be a bit scary, because in Silicon Valley, TV ads often stand for wasted spend,” said Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Harry Kargman, founder and CEO at Kargo. Google announced last month that it would switch to a first-price auction in Google Ad Manager by the end of 2019. The move brings Google into parity […]
“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 Ellen Houston, director of applied data science at Civis Analytics. Marketers are increasingly shifting to performance and optimizing their investments with the right audience to drive business growth. This is […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Maccaro, CEO at Beachfront. People who have spent their careers buying linear TV advertising are confronting a much different world. From direct-to-consumer streaming to cross-platform metrics, media buyers have new opportunities to garner […]
“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 Slocum, vice president, DMP, at MediaMath. Two years ago, MediaMath partnered to find a way for open and independent digital marketing platforms to rival the scale of walled gardens […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. There have been an increasing number of recent rumors that Google Chrome might block third-party cookies, or at least limit them to some degree, which would fundamentally change the programmatic ecosystem. […]
“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 Nico Neumann, assistant professor and fellow, Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School. Nico will present “How The Wrong Audience Targeting And AI-Driven Campaigns Undermine Brand Growth” at AdExchanger’s upcoming […]
“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). This upfront, the focus is on outcomes. As presentations continue, the role of outcome-based measurement – whether for attribution or […]
“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 Maja Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers. How often have you heard something along these lines? “We’re looking for a highly strategic chief revenue officer (CRO) who can help […]
BuzzFeed is in the midst of a transformation from a fast-growing startup to a sustainable digital media company, with Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown leading the charge. Over the past two years, BuzzFeed’s expanded into every revenue opportunity it can, including programmatic, affiliate and brand licensing. In programmatic, for example, BuzzFeed started with a basic […]
“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 Jodi Daniels, founder and CEO at Red Clover Advisors. Customer data platforms (CDPs) are the latest shiny new thing in marketing technology, helping companies create a single view of their […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mark Zagorski, CEO at Telaria. The question of whether Netflix will introduce an ad-supported business should not be will-they-or-won’t-they, but rather when and how. Those bullish on Netflix’s strategy of flooding screens with an […]
“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 Joey Henderson, commercial director at Avocet. As the debate over in-housing and what it means for brands rages, agencies are at a crossroads. They must decide whether to bolster their […]
Pluto TV is the anti-Netflix. It’s free and ad-supported. Users scroll through channels and watch whatever show is already playing, replicating the channel surfing that’s a hallmark of old-fashioned TV watching. Viacom spent $340 million in cash to acquire Pluto TV in January, validating the concept and its audience. The deal felt like “Cinderella getting […]
This article is sponsored by MoPub. The use of user-level data is getting a lot of attention in the mobile in-app space today. More app publishers are leveraging paid user acquisition to attract and retain users. To differentiate in an increasingly competitive market, publishers need to be able to identify profitable campaigns from loss-making ones. […]
“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 Carolina Abanente, founder, executive vice chairperson, chief strategy officer and general counsel at NYIAX. Advertising agencies aren’t dying, but neither is the recurring storyline about their demise. Maybe that’s why, […]
“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 April Brown, vice president of marketing analytics architecture at Origami Logic. Programmatic technology has democratized access to data-driven advertising. The average marketer has access to unprecedented levels of raw information […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. All eyes in advertising right now are on over-the-top (OTT) and other connected TV experiences, and for good reason. Consumers have spoken. This is how they […]
“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 W. Ivie, CEO and executive director at the Media Rating Council. In an advertising industry that is defined by data and measurement in a way that few other sectors […]
Indie agency KWG says sell-side curation can target more high-performing inventory with better match rates and lower data fees than buy-side curation.
Infillion checked in with its latest acquisition on Friday: Foursquare. Apparently, if there’s a strategically interesting or distressed ad tech asset on the market, Infillion will find it.
A week ago, HBO MAX had its verified Reddit account overrun by a hacker group, which eluded notice for two days while it ran 108 different ad permutations targeting an unknown number of Redditors.
Adapting other channels’ strategies might be what gaming platforms need to do to get advertisers comfortable spending more. Leaning into gaming’s differentiators will come later, after bigger budgets arrive.
Taboola has made an offer to buy Dianomi, a UK-based ad tech company that connects financial advertisers with premium business and finance publishers.
When a creator already loves the product they’re marketing, it’s easy to work it into their content in ways that feel natural. That’s exactly what the Try Guys did.
