“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 Tim Mahlman, president of ad platforms at Oath. With spend growing by more than 72% over the past three years, programmatic is the backbone of online advertising. For advertisers, automated buys […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Randy Cooke, vice president of programmatic TV at SpotX. In media, our past is dominated by the ongoing discussions of our future. From the moment the first TiVo shipped around the turn of the […]
“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, global product and strategy lead, audience activation at GfK. In the last two or three years, it’s become increasingly common for publishers to unite to share audience data and extend 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 Richard Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. Do you switch to “incognito mode” when you browse for things you want to keep private? Do you regularly delete the cookies on […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Yoav Naveh, vice president of video at Taboola. Brands love cookies, digital marketers love cookies and marketing executives around the world still love them for their ability to target the right audience. Our industry […]
“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 Martin, global business development manager at Playwire Media. Technological advances and a narrower focus on brand safety and inventory transparency (finally) have moved the digital media needle in the […]
Condé Nast’s Evan Adlman will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26 on a panel titled “Data Accuracy And The DMP.” Until recently, buyers who wanted to access Condé Nast’s ad inventory programmatically struggled to find enough impressions to buy. “The perception when I joined was that there wasn’t much scale there, and it […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Phil Kyle, chief operating officer at Infinitive. Programmatic buying has been gaining traction in the video market for some time, thanks to advertiser interest and technology maturation. As a result, some industry analysts now […]
“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. So far this year, header bidding has been adopted at scale by many of the world’s largest publishers. But it hasn’t […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jarrod Dicker, vice president of commercial product and innovation at The Washington Post. When balancing both proactive and reactive strategies, it’s a continuous battle for publishers to decide when to push and when to […]
“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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. In September, Apple will release new changes to Safari with iOS 11 called “Intelligent Tracking Prevention.” These changes will have large effects on the ad […]
As NBCUniversal’s portfolio has evolved, so has its sales pitch to brand marketers. When NBCU merged its linear and digital sales teams in 2015 and combined all its content groups, its client partnerships team assumed a greater role within its sales organization. That team, led by client partnerships EVP Ali Tarrant, became the broadcaster’s conduit […]
“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 Steve Sachs, CEO at OneSpot. Each day, millions of Americans grab a cup of coffee, jump into their cars and turn on the radio to hear the weather, day’s news […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Danny Khatib, co-founder and CEO at Granite Media. One of the most powerful aspects of the cloud platform is the innovation created by the unbundling of component services. There is a full menu 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 Greg Herbst, vice president of programmatic data solutions at Bombora. Oil, steel, movies, games, credit, alcohol, stocks and bonds: They are all bought and sold, and each is rated by […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Bologna, president at one2one Media. There are two pressing questions that continue to raise debate in addressable television circles across the industry. When will national inventory enter the supply chain? And is 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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. If you’re like me, you get calls, introduction emails and LinkedIn messages all the time from companies trying to figure out how to get 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 Ocean Fine, vice president of agency and strategic partnerships at Factual. The ability to leverage location data – not just to launch targeted advertising campaigns, but to learn about an […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Martellotti, co-founder at Wholetone Media. Today, data is more of a language than a product. What has challenged many businesses is their ability to translate the new mountains of data they’ve collected internally […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kevin Kohn, CEO at iQ Media. Today’s living room looks a bit different than it did in the 1960s, or even the 1990s, but its focal point remains the same: the television. While cutting […]
“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 Amber Naslund, senior director of industry leadership at Hootsuite. Many businesses struggle to measure their social media efforts. For most, the trouble starts right at the beginning: What, exactly, should we […]
Match Media Group runs an ad business for a dating subscription company. Because ad business revenue accounts for only a small piece of the pie, the ad team always considers the effects of its ads on the user experience. “A fairly good parallel is Amazon,” said Peter Foster, GM of global advertising and brand solutions. […]
“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 Sanjay Agarwal, vice president of engineering at Drawbridge. In the ad tech ecosystem before OpenRTB, proprietary protocols caused long integration cycles, more code complexity and maintenance and custom logic for […]
“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 Voda, CEO at OptiMine. In the last six months, both Facebook and Google have launched formal, public marketing-mix modeling (MMM) partnership programs. Participating vendors are allowed special access to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Dario Diament, vice president of product and strategy at Headway. Video advertising has become the marketer’s top choice for reaching and engaging consumers, with pre-roll ad units being the most favored format. But as anyone […]
“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 Julia Amorim, CEO at MediaNet. In the famous scene from the 1992 movie “A Few Good Men,” Jack Nicholson’s character asks Tom Cruise if he wants answers, to which Cruise’s […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by David Hills, managing director of strategy at The 614 Group. There’s no place where complexity and the need to innovate is starker than at the intersection of campaign and account management. As publishers increasingly […]
“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 Denman, vice president of insights at 84.51°. Every business faces disruptors of some kind. They often come in the form of technology, services or products. We all know their […]
OTT is a catch-22 for advertisers. While it reaches the cord cutters traditional TV advertisers want to target, that audience is still difficult to track in an OTT environment. Although the channel is capturing more attention (and dollars) from the traditional TV camp, digital buyers say connected TV needs to address the issue of identity […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. A certified letter might make its way through a number of post offices as it travels from Point A to Point B, but neither the sender […]
And that’s a wrap on Day One of upfronts 2026! AdExchanger Senior Editors Alyssa Boyle and 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.
PubMatic has run more than 30 fully autonomous, end-to-end agentic campaigns through the SSP’s AgenticOS platform, in addition to more than 1,000 direct publisher deals.
TTD CEO Jeff Green laid out the DSP’s plan for winning in a new world of advertising that – AI aside – necessitates major changes in how marketers behave.
