“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 Max Mead, CEO at Acceleration Labs. You were probably expecting to read about why you should boycott politically oriented media properties or remove controversial political intonations from your brand’s messaging. […]
“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 Petri, chief strategy officer at Screen6. A recent report from comScore showed that consumers are spending more time on their smartphones, tablets and connected TVs than ever before, and it’s not necessarily […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michelle Stewart, Media Director at DWA Media. Michelle will present “Defining KPIs For B2B Marketers” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26. The appeal is undeniable: “Programmatic” connotes digital trackability, and “TV” […]
“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 Attila Jakab, managing director at Infectious Media. The digital ad market has a massive elephant in the room. It’s been there for years and everyone knows it’s there, but curiously […]
“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 Brian Crook, chief product and technology officer at Verve. The location-powered mobile marketing industry might see Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 blue bar for location as a privacy-first development. But what […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Aryeh Lebeau, executive vice president of client operations at Remedy Health Media. A wise man once mused: “If an ad loads on a web page but no human sees it, does it count as an impression?” […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Frank Sinton, founder and CEO at Beachfront Media. Video advertising has seen astronomical growth in the last two years. The average per-brand spend has jumped 67% over the past two years alone, from $5.6 […]
When New York Media charted its digital strategy, it chose not to go local. Instead, the publisher of New York magazine created standalone blogging brands with national distribution around fashion (The Cut), culture (Vulture) and food (Grub Street). And it’s since added tech (Select All) and science (The Science Of Us) to the list 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 Ken Rona, chief data scientist at IgnitionOne. There is a lot of excitement and some confusion across the ad industry around machine learning, and for good reason. The availability of […]
Although early video investments (and acquisitions) were focused on the desktop, a new influx of funding is pivoting to channels like over-the-top TV. In the span of three months, more than $150 million in VC funding has been injected into startups capitalizing on the demand for new video content – and addressing the challenges 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 Tim Webster, co-founder and chief strategy officer at The Exchange Lab. Technology advancements over the past 10 years have without question transformed the digital advertising landscape. What was once a […]
“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 Kym Frank, president at Geopath. Marketers have eagerly embraced big data. When I worked at a media agency, I so often hunted for new data, insights, optimization tools and differentiation that […]
“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. In our industry – one of the most digitally advanced, according to McKinsey Global Institute – you would expect massive innovation. However, you’d be disappointed. Venture capital investment has indeed poured […]
In the past, large linear audiences weren’t always addressable, and TV tune-in marketing was more “spray-and-pray” than precise. But TV tune-in, that mainstay of traditional linear promotion, is getting a data-driven boost. As linear ratings decline and consumers trend toward time-shifted content and new distribution points like mobile and over-the-top, marketers have more data at […]
“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 Maggie Mesa, vice president of mobile at OpenX. By now, it should go without saying that in-app advertising and desktop advertising are two completely different animals – and publishers need 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 Curt Larson, vice president of product at Sharethrough. At Apple’s developer conference in early June, the company unveiled its new “Intelligent Tracking Prevention” initiative. The move will launch on Safari […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andy Monfried, CEO at Lotame. Set in the world of minor-league baseball, “Brockmire” is IFC’s highest-rated program ever. The show also provides a useful metaphor for over-the-top’s (OTT) dependency on remnant inventory, an issue we first […]
“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 Barbara Connors, director of retail media at 84.51°. Digital advertising spending outpaced TV in 2016 for the first time. And yet, we still use the term “traditional advertising” in reference […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Noyes, CEO at Commerce Signals. A popular sports adage is “The best defense is a good offense.” That’s sensible advice for digital publishers in responding to Google Attribution. Historically, publishers used data on […]
“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. Acxiom (NASDAQ: ACXM) formally acquired LiveRamp three years ago, on July 1, 2014, for $310 million, which was 22% of Acxiom’s market cap at the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Hock, head of business strategy and development, media and entertainment, at Adobe. EMarketer pegs the US addressable TV ad spend at $1.56 billion for 2017. That’s double the rate of 2016, which was double […]
Food brands that want their ad creative to appear next to recipes for quick and easy dinners, Japanese food or gluten-free meals can buy inventory via CafeMedia’s private marketplaces that fits into those content categories. CafeMedia created those content categories using IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI). Traditionally, companies use content management systems to categorize 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 Jim Spanfeller, founder and general manager of The Daily Meal Ventures Group, a tronc company. Let me start by saying, no, I don’t think agency media-buying groups will become extinct. […]
“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 technology officer at TVSquared. Digital has borne the brunt of recent brand-safety issues. While there’s been a lot of talk about offline taking cues from online to improve ad measurement 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 Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. For years, Apple’s Safari browser has endeavored to prevent advertising technology companies from tracking user web browsing behavior via cookies. And for years, ad tech […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Joe Hirsch, CEO at YellowHammer Media Group. The IAB Labs’ “ads.txt” initiative is one of several recently proposed solutions to minimize digital advertising fraud. Participating sellers, including supply-side platforms and publishers, would place a […]
“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 Kerry Bianchi, CEO at Collective. After an open season on shady ad industry practices, resolving transparency problems has moved to the top of the agenda for many concerned brand clients […]
Newsy started life as a desktop play. But now the digital video network, purchased by the E.W. Scripps Company in 2013, derives most of its traffic from over-the-top (OTT) devices as buyers begin to warm up to the channel. Marketers are increasingly willing to invest in OTT not just as a testing ground but as […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Jon Burke, advertising lead at Automattic. Snapchat is the latest major publisher to go public with its brand safety partnerships. Prior to that, Facebook revealed that it would hire 3,000 new workers to focus on […]
“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 Marc Guldimann, CEO at Parsec Media. A few months ago, I was asked to share a surprising or counterintuitive perspective I held on the digital ad landscape. So, I uncorked […]
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.
