“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 […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tod Loofbourrow, CEO at ViralGains. Last year, Procter & Gamble spent $8.3 billion on advertising, making the company the world’s top advertiser. Accordingly, the words of P&G CMO Marc Pritchard have enormous power. 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 Dennis Buchheim, senior vice president of data and ad effectiveness at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and general manager of the IAB Data Center of Excellence. Soon, truckers may be out […]
“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. The fun is over. For everyone. That includes the publishers jamming in 10 header tags and 50-plus tracking cookies into their site […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. With their strong focus on user experience, Facebook and Google have frequently talked about how consumers don’t like slow-loading pages, especially on mobile. As a result, both […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Braley, general manager of advertising platforms at Ooyala. If you’re a brand marketer, would you like to see your ad running alongside nauseating video content? I thought not. My point is one about […]
“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 Dan Frank, head of StreamRail Platform at ironSource. The digital advertising world has come a long way in the last couple of years in its mission to fight ad fraud. […]
Publishers need scale to survive. Fusion Media Group is an example of that strategy in action. The modern Fusion Media Group is about a year and a half in the making. Univision first expanded by buying The Root from The Washington Post, and then a stake in The Onion. In August, it bought Gawker Media […]
“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 Victor Wong, CEO at Thunder. Many years ago, customer relationship management (CRM) platforms solidified their position as the systems of record for customer interactions and introduced the concept of data-driven […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tyler Pietz, principal at Two Rock Consulting. In wake of a recent series of highly publicized ad tech scandals, a gaggle of leading industry figures has wondered aloud if brands might be better served […]
“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 Ric Elert, president at Conversant. If the last month is any indication, the future of demand-side platforms (DSPs) is less than inspiring. Reports show that header bidding may be testing 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 Jarno Vanto, chief privacy officer at Unacast. After some false starts, location-based marketing is finally hitting its stride. Researcher BIA/Kelsey projects the segment will grow from $12.4 billion in 2016 […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Spencer Scott, head of media platforms at PCH/Media. How did it come to this? That’s the question digital publishers and advertisers have been asking themselves in recent years. Despite an abundance of creative ad […]
“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 Kevin Arrix, chief revenue officer at Verve. While the online brand-safety problem is the new normal – at least for now – it is up to brands to take the lead […]
SourceMedia, the publisher of longstanding B2B titles “American Banker,” “Mergers & Acquisitions” and “Accounting Today,” traditionally relied on paid subscriptions and conference proceeds to drive its revenue. But increasingly, it’s turning to newer ad formats such as outstream video and native to capture more incremental marketing spend. SourceMedia sees itself as a premium information resource […]
“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. People say “data is the new oil.” But unlike oil, the quality of data is extremely difficult to measure. In my experience, most marketing data […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Header bidding increases yield. This dogma is unquestioned and largely unassailable as the revenue increases are quantitative and provable. But despite the tangible gains, questions linger about why, beyond […]
“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 Ian Hewetson, vice president of client services at Eyereturn Marketing. Fraud and viewability get all the attention when marketers question their display ad effectiveness. But there’s a more common issue […]
“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 Kristian Schwartz, founder and partner at The Montgomery Group. It’s no secret that demand for programmatic talent exceeds supply. Adding to the complexity is the varying and opaque level of […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sandie Milberg, chief revenue officer at Varick Media Management. This year, we decided as a family that it was time to do a major overhaul on our home. This entailed knocking walls down, building […]
“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 Craig Spiezle, CEO and executive director at the Online Trust Alliance. By some accounts, there are more than 200 variants of ad-blocking solutions, many of which utilize whitelisting that allows […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Richie Hyden, co-founder and chief operating officer at IRIS TV. In the fast-changing TV business, data will be the currency that pays for everything. It will allow for better ad targeting, smarter decision-making and […]
SheKnows built its own header bidding wrapper, which is now used by the 1,500 blogger sites it represents as well as its flagship property, SheKnows.com. Most publishers don’t build their own tech, instead using wrappers built and maintained by their ad tech partners. But Phil Bohn, VP of programmatic sales at SheKnows Media, said having […]
“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 Greene, vice president of product strategy at AudienceScience. The current fervor surrounding brand safety has brought a great deal of finger pointing as the industry tries to assess the blame. […]
“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 Raab, principal at Raab Associates. When online marketers get tired of worrying about Google and Facebook taking over their world, they may instead fret over whether the EU’s upcoming […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Todd Tran, chief strategy officer at Teads. Although viewability has been a big topic for the past couple of years, the standard for viewability of video ads is still hotly debated. Most of 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 Matt Voda, CEO at OptiMine. At a recent attribution conference, I was surprised to see that the term “attribution” holds many different meanings to different people in the advertising industry. […]
“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. We are sitting in the middle of a giant shift, as advertisers and publishers navigate from the old seller-driven market to the programmatic-buyer driven market. Today, most sellers […]
Despite being a universally recognized name in health and fitness wearables, Fitbit turns to paid media whenever it releases a new connected wristband. Because Fitbit is a lifestyle product, it wants to find ways to insert its brand into consumers’ fitness regimens – not just hammer them over the head with basic banner ads 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 My N. Tran, chief product officer at ADVR. The most common use case for virtual reality (VR) today is showing our friends how cool it is, which, as a VR […]
Upfront week is officially over. In case you missed any of the dog-and-pony shows — including Chappell Roan belting out “Pink Pony Club” during YouTube’s Broadcast — don’t worry; we’ve got you covered.
During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results.
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.
