“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 Oren Harnevo, CEO and co-founder at Eyeview. Last year, I was one of about 50 judges for a prestigious advertising award and one of the few without a creative 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 Dylan Collins, CEO at SuperAwesome. The European digital ad market is bracing itself for May, when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable. Advertisers and brands are scrambling to […]
“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. Hear him speak at the upcoming Industry Preview conference, January 17-18 in NYC. Sure, over-the-top (OTT) subscription content is all the rage. It’s buzzy, still new and the market […]
The rise of digital advertising has been tough on local news. Not only have legacy operations, like local newspapers, struggled to survive in the era of Craigslist, Google and Facebook, digital ones haven’t found it easy to gain a perch. Most recently, the owner of Gothamist and DNAinfo shut down the sites in early November […]
“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 Vejay G. Lalla, a partner in the advertising, marketing and promotions group at Davis & Gilbert. Over the last year, the online advertising industry has grappled with the threat posed […]
“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 Rich Kahn, co-founder and CEO at eZanga. Brands have reason to fear for the safety of their reputations. From headline-generating slip-ups – like when major brand ads appeared alongside extremist […]
“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 Ramsey McGrory, chief revenue officer at Mediaocean. “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” is one of the greatest movies of all time. I love the movie because Willy Wonka, like […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Evelina Grines, vice president of media and entertainment at MPP Global. Video audiences in the US are soaring, growing 46.8% from August 2016 to 2017, per the MPA. And while that’s good news, viewership […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andy Vogel, global head of digital products at NewBase. The ad supply chain is underregulated, and this has become obvious with the recent Financial Times spoofing scandal that uncovered at least six industry players offering fake inventory. With […]
“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 Jared Belsky, president at 360i. Coming fresh off my latest trip to Palo Alto visiting with tech powerhouses and the C-suite of one of my favorite clients, I’m feeling energized, […]
The French video platform Dailymotion is a fraction of Google’s size – YouTube’s 1.5 billion-plus monthly viewers dwarf Dailymotion’s 300 million. But scale isn’t stopping the company from repositioning its platform to woo US advertisers and publishers from the dominant video-sharing site. Breaking into a video market ruled by streaming video services such as Netflix […]
“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 McDonald, executive vice president and group account director at DigitasLBi. About 30 minutes into the movie “Argo,” CIA officer Jack O’Donnell (played by Bryan Cranston) remarks, “This is the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Adam Hecht, vice president of monetization at SintecMedia. Apple and Google have both made changes to their browsers recently, and at a recent panel I attended, publishers reported decreased revenues as a result. In […]
“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 Jennifer Pelino, senior vice president of omnichannel media at Information Resources Inc. (IRI). When my 5-year-old son opened his birthday present from my 72-year-old mother this summer, he proclaimed that Grandma […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lauren Wiener, CEO at Tremor Video DSP. Mary Meeker, have we got a new gap for you. Audiences are moving away from traditional television in droves. They are breaking up with their cable companies […]
“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 Heimlich, senior vice president and managing director of HX at Horizon Media. Digital display advertising is effective. It works a lot like TV advertising, lifting awareness a little bit across […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Meyer, founder of Evidon and president of digital governance at Crownpeak. Concerns around online data collection and how that data fuels the ad economy are hardly new. It’s been nearly a decade since […]
“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. In the early 2010s, a few assumptions seemed undeniable for media buyers. They believed programmatic was growing rapidly with user-level targeting, for example, providing […]
“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 Mollie Parker, director of analytics and tech ops at DWA Media. When an agency and client first start working together, it’s crucial to get on the same page before a campaign […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Baker, co-founder and CEO at dataxu. In early 2017, Procter & Gamble’s chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard, set the advertising industry on fire, launching a “brand-safety revolt.” In a speech at the IAB’s Annual […]
With high demand and short supply of pre-roll video ads, many publishers are creating more video content that can be monetized with pre-roll ads. But not Bleacher Report. “Pre-roll is not the future of online advertising,” said Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer Howard Mittman, who joined the sports publication from Condé Nast in […]
“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 my last AdExchanger column in September, I discussed truth and religion data companies. Truth data companies are backward-looking, focusing on data that can reveal […]
“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 Anna Saffer, director of strategic customer intelligence at 84.51°. Loyalty economics has traditionally been defined as evaluating how much a customer is worth to a brand over time. Whether a […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Shereta Williams, president at Videa. The rise of over-the-top (OTT), video on demand and other nonlinear TV options has dramatically increased the number of viewers who consume content through services like Netflix or Hulu. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ryan Fuss, chief revenue officer at Sortable. Remember going to video stores? You had to leave your house and drive to the video store with at least one movie in mind. And more often […]
“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. Every October, the Nobel committee hands out its annual prizes in recognition of academic, cultural or scientific advances. While there is no award […]
“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. Following the acquisitions of Rocket Fuel, MaxPoint Interactive and YuMe and the divestiture of Tremor Video’s demand-side business, there will be no […]
Atlantic Media-owned Quartz is unapologetic about the absence of pre-roll on its properties. “It’s the reason we don’t support standard ads and why we have control over what runs onsite,” said Joy Robins, SVP of global revenue and strategy for Quartz. “It’s also another reason why we made a conscious decision not to run pre-roll […]
“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. The buzz in programmatic media these days is about “exciting” topics like supply-path optimization, first-price auctions, video header bidding and blockchain. One theme that could use more analysis is Ads.txt. Ads.txt […]
“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 Van Fleet, managing partner at Van Fleet Capital Strategies. The crowded nature of the ad tech landscape is well known but what gets less attention is the fundamental question […]
No major retail media player has taken as circumspect an approach to ad revenue as Shopify. But the company has recently taken its next important step with a product called Campaign Autopilot, VP of product for merchant marketing Samir Pradhan tells AdExchanger.
OpenAI’s head of monetization, Benji Shomair makes the case for ads as a way to bring ChatGPT to more people, with user trust taking priority over advertiser demands.
In Q3, The Trade Desk beat the admittedly pessimistic revenue forecast it set for itself earlier this year. But growth has stalled.
Viant is doubling down on CTV with its $20 million Waymark acquisition, betting that AI-generated ads can bring more advertisers to streaming TV.
TIME is using AI agents to draft proposals and troubleshoot campaigns – but not to replace the human relationships that drive ad sales.
Why the midterms may not spell doom for ad tech consolidation. Plus, how sports leagues are putting ad revenue before player safety.
