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  • Marketers Can’t Overlook Simpson’s Paradox In Programmatic Buying

    “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 Cameron Wertheimer, director of corporate development and strategy at Vertical Mass. As budgets continue to shift toward programmatic, it is more important than ever for marketers to use statistics when […]

  • Maximizing Return On Investment In A Post-GDPR World

    “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 Wayne Blodwell, founder and CEO at The Programmatic Advisory. Now that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been activated, brands must quickly learn how to maximize what they do with […]

  • Will IGTV And Digital Long-Form Finally Bring Big TV Ad Budgets Online?  

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Edward Kim, founder and executive chairman at SimpleReach. Facebook recently announced the launch of IGTV, a hub for long-form, vertical videos that’s accessible from both a new app and the existing Instagram app. Facebook’s […]

  • Post-GDPR, How Many Will Really Opt Out Of Personal Targeting?

    “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 Duncan Arthur, managing director at illuma. You’d be forgiven for thinking we’re reliving the Y2K bug all over again. Though there were reports of drops in bidding for inventory lacking […]

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  • Getting In On The 2020 Election Campaigns: What Publishers Need To Know

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, vice president of programmatic strategy at Intermarkets. Instead of taking a well-deserved (and much-needed) break after the 2016 presidential election, digital teams went right back to work. That’s partly because presidential elections […]

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  • This ‘Oil’ Should Fuel Creative Campaigns, Too

    “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 Lux Narayan, co-founder and CEO at Unmetric. Data is often likened to oil, but the similarities go deeper than you might think. The first oil drills in North America were […]

  • Programmatic Guaranteed: A Chance To Rethink Publisher Growth

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Devlin Jefferson, vice president of product at Operative. Bauer Xcel recently gave publishers advice about working directly with brands that take programmatic in-house. Note that the advice was written by Bauer’s new in-house programmatic […]

  • European Advertisers Have Limited Ability To Verify YouTube Ads

    “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 Bjarte Humborstad, digital director at RED Media Consulting. Following the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Google has allowed advertisers to serve their YouTube ads only from Google-owned […]

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  • The Programmatic Transparency Challenges That Still Must Be Solved

    “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 James O’Connor, head of programmatic at Kiip. Our industry has taken great strides improving transparency in recent years, and it’s about to do so again with the IAB’s release of […]

  • Missed Opportunities: Creative Testing For TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kevin O’Reilly, chief strategy officer at TVSquared. It goes without saying that a creative can make or break an ad campaign. TV advertisers spend millions to create visually memorable, emotion-driven and even humorous ads […]

  • Through Consolidation And Net Neutrality Repeal, The Duopoly Becomes A Lots-More-Opoly

    “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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Most of the discussion about who dominates digital media over the past few years has focused on the Google and Facebook duopoly. That’s […]

  • For Publishers, The CDP Forges A New Path For Opportunity

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for 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. For the last 10 years, publishers have been using programmatic media technology to drive greater scale and revenue. Real-time bidding […]

  • Fast-Forward To 2040: How Businesses Will Evolve With AI

    “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 Aman Naimat, senior vice president of technology at Demandbase. From scaling repetitive tasks to improving human-to-machine interactions, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way when it comes to freeing […]

  • With Cultivation, Advertising-Supported Video On Demand Poised To Flourish

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Greg Smith, an independent advertising technology consultant. Spring has sprung, and now we enter the dog days of summer. One new advertising “flower” that is poised to grow, even among the walled gardens, is […]

  • Fatherly CEO On How To Raise A New Kind Of Publisher

    Toddler-age publication Fatherly was designed for the future of digital media. Fatherly CEO Michael Rothman, a veteran of Thrillist, envisioned a branded content-focused publication, with maybe a sideline of commerce via product licensing (not the JackThreads variety). Programmatic was out as an option. “We are at a place where audience doesn’t grow at a pace […]

  • In-House Agencies: Should They Go It Alone?

    “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 Bruno Gralpois, co-founder and principal at Agency Mania Solutions. The growing number of brand advertisers setting up their own in-house agencies has grown exponentially in recent years. This phenomenon is […]

  • App Publishers Must Avoid The Audience Circulation Trap

    “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 Evan Rutchik, general manager at Ogury US. When app publishers advertise their platform on other apps to increase their own visitors, they’re often just trading app audiences and not growing […]

  • Mammoth Media’s Apps Take A Page Out Of TV’s Playbook

    Mammoth Media, a media and entertainment network aimed at teens and millennials, wants to do for apps what Viacom did for TV. “Viacom has Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central – program options and content based on demographics,” said Peter Szabo, Mammoth’s CRO and head of partnerships. “We’re taking the same approach with different monetization, and instead […]

  • The Comeback Of Context

    “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 Nevins, chief marketing officer at Smart. 2018 has been marked by uncommon turbulence, starting with the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal through the recent, ongoing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) chaos. […]

  • Myth: Increased Competition In Header Bidding Is The Biggest Contributor To Revenue Gains

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Necheporenko, chief technology officer at Roxot. Many still believe that header bidding increases pricing for publishers’ inventory. This should be one of the major reasons publishers enjoy a 20-30% revenue increase from implementing header bidding. […]

  • VAST 4.1: Why Are Changes Needed?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Tuminello, vice president of solutions and partnerships at Innovid. Believe it or not, video ad standards are almost 10 years old. VAST 2.0 and VPAID 1.0 [PDF] were drafted in 2009 and, generally […]

  • Trade-offs: The Reality No One Wants To Accept In Digital Advertising

    “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 David Doty, digital publishing consultant.  As I sit here in Cannes and listen to rosé-fueled frets around the digital advertising industry issues du jour, I’ve been thinking about how I’ve […]

  • Your Ad Tech Tax Is Amazon’s Opportunity

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Claude Denton, co-founder and chief technology officer at Nanigans. When Jeff Bezos famously said, “Your margin is my opportunity,” he was referring to retailers’ historically high margins and Amazon’s intent to undercut them with […]

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  • Increased Consumer Expectations For Privacy Could Be A Good Thing 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 Keith Eadie, vice president and general manager at Adobe Advertising Cloud. As the dust from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach settles, consumers and legislators alike are asking tough questions around […]

  • Data Ethics: Permission Is Not The Problem

    “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 Weiss, chief technology officer and chief data scientist at Dativa. The recent uproar caused by the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal has made the ethical use of data one of the […]

  • Live Ads: Fad Or The Future Of Advertising?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ann Green, managing partner of creative development at Kantar Millward Brown. As the battle for consumer eyeballs gets more challenging, advertisers are trying anything to get viewers to pay attention, with one of the […]

  • Today’s Ad Verification Providers May Fail Us In The Long Term

    “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 Adam Broitman, chief strategy officer at Kiip. Despite the industry’s best efforts, the cost of ad fraud remains a $6.5 billion concern. Trust, in the world of digital advertising, is […]

  • A Media Brand’s Audience And Data Strategy: A Bridge Between Current Assets, Future Goals

    “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.  Media brands’ survival depends on a sound audience and data strategy. But before the strategy can be devised, a deep phase of audience and data auditing […]

  • 2018 Upfronts: The Real Celebrity Is You

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Even with fragmented viewership across screens and devices, TV’s brand-safe, fraud-free storytelling environment faces scarcity – and advertisers know it. As long as demand is high and […]

  • Livingly Media CEO Erica Carter Makes Programmatic Profitable

    Livingly Media runs a profitable business focused on programmatic advertising. And to stay profitable, it’s steered clear of the next hot thing. The publisher tried direct sales but realized it couldn’t compete with competitors offering 360-degree custom packages with content, social, first-of-their-kind ideas and offline events. Nor has Livingly dived into video or embraced platform […]

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