“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. It’s October, five months after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, and we – well, most of […]
“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 Tom Triscari, co-founder and managing partner at Labmatik. “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” This little vignette comes from the writing genre known as flash fiction, often attributed to Ernest Hemingway […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Apgar, Senior Director of Product Management, Advanced Advertising, at SeaChange International. Since nearly the beginning of television broadcast, the linear dynamic ad insertion (DAI) business model has remained fairly unchanged. Advertising sales teams […]
“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 Abbey Thomas, chief marketing officer at Tremor Video DSP. The median number of years employees ages 25 to 34 stay with an employer is 2.8, according to the Bureau of […]
RockYou specializes in acquiring down-and-out digital properties and managing them through their decline. The San Francisco-based company adopted that business model because it nearly went out of business itself in 2009, when Facebook decided it was done with social gaming apps on its platform. At the time, RockYou was a top social gaming app developer […]
“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 Neil Sweeney, founder at Killi. During the lead-up to the rollout of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there was a ton of coverage about the good it might […]
“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. The march of over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) has been unstoppable. The number of OTT and CTV viewers in the US will soon surpass 200 million, or […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ivan Ivanov, chief operating officer at PubGalaxy. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has positive intentions, aimed primarily at controlling the data practices of large corporations. Many hoped the regulation would begin to level 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 Scott Garner, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at ADARA. During a panel discussion over the summer, Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson described how his company is pitched in a […]
Content providers are reducing their ad loads to accommodate viewers’ changing preferences, consumption patterns and attention spans. But what about rethinking the commercial break model so it doesn’t disrupt a good “Handmaid’s Tale” binge? Is a high-quality ad experience possible without a traditional ad break? Jeremy Helfand, Hulu’s new VP and head of advertising platforms, […]
“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. It’s been a year, give or take, since the dominoes started to fall in the direction of first-price auctions. Our industry wasn’t fully […]
“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 Mark Gorman, CEO at Matrix Solutions. While M&A strategies offer media companies a leg up on competition, little attention goes to the behind-the-scenes drama when aligning the legacy technology platforms […]
“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 Julie Fleischer, vice president of marketing solutions at Neustar. We’ve all heard the stats. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day. Ninety percent of the world’s data […]
“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. We love the constant barrage of headline-grabbing figures about cord cutters and connected TV, but most of the information we are devouring is really just academic. Sure, […]
“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 independent audience strategy consultant. A few days ago, I read an interesting exchange on Twitter. A well-respected newspaper editor-in-chief advocated for digital news being free, like the newspaper he had, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Nola Solomon, vice president, global programmatic and strategic partnerships, at Dailymotion. When connected TV (CTV) first came to the fore, brands typically drew from their discretionary test-and-learn budgets or they’d steal from established buckets, […]
“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 Jessica Hawthorne-Castro, CEO at Hawthorne. The rise of data science has had a major impact on just about every industry out there, but the effect on marketing and advertising has […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Manoochehri, chief technology officer at Switchboard Software. Why do data projects continue to fail at an alarming rate? Gartner estimates that through 2017, 60% of data projects never get past preliminary stages. There are common reasons […]
“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 Terence Kawaja, founder and CEO at LUMA Partners. There was great uncertainty in the two years leading up to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). During this time, only […]
“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 Schraeder, president and chief operating officer at GumGum. The question of who exactly bears the responsibility for ensuring brand safety has typically been a gray area, with no one […]
“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 Pete Kim, CEO at MightyHive. We have all been saying for years that the ad tech ecosystem is a mess that needs to be cleaned up. But few have offered […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Connolly, co-founder and CEO at Sonobi. So, a group of guys is sitting down to watch the hockey playoffs on TV, and a Maybelline commercial pops up. Even if the cosmetics advertisement is […]
A year and a half ago, Gary Vaynerchuk bought PureWow, bringing together an agency and publisher under one parent company called VaynerX. “We thought we were fast before the acquisition, but we are faster than ever before,” said Ryan Harwood, CEO of Gallery Media Group, which houses both PureWow and ONE37pm, a just-launched men’s lifestyle […]
Sports-focused streaming service FuboTV stepped up its advertising game this summer. In August, the video startup inked a deal with Turner to add even more sports and news coverage to its docket. Turner Sports’ live coverage of the MLB, NBA and NCAA March Madness, along with the company’s non-sport channels such as Cartoon Network 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 Ka Mo Lau, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Thunder. With the recent uproar over bid caching, where an exchange enables a losing bid in one auction to […]
“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. In the publishing world, there’s a fine line between jumping the gun on an emerging distribution platform and being […]
“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 Michael Mallazzo, director of marketing at Narrativ. The data that powers the bulk of programmatic ad spend can only identify if a user is male or female about 50% of […]
“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. From Comcast and NBC to AT&T and Time Warner, the unification of premium content with rich consumer data is driving our current phase of media consolidation. These companies are […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. Like the US political news cycle today, the mar tech news cycle moves pretty quickly, so I recognize we are near or at the end of […]
“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 Tutuwa Ahwoi, ad operations manager at National Public Media. Podcasting is becoming a popular medium. Monthly US podcast listeners are expected to reach 73 million in 2018, a 10% percent increase […]
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.
