Opinion

“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 Bill Wise, co-founder and CEO at Mediaocean, and Boris Mouzykantskii, founder, CEO and chief scientist at IPONWEB. With its ability to radically open up opaque transaction systems, blockchain is perfectly […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andy Dale, VP, legal and data protection officer at dataxu. My grandfather was a real-life “mad man.” During the “creative revolution” of the 1960s, he built copy and art teams at Doner Advertising, handling […]

“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. About 10 years ago, the marketing consulting firm I worked for was discussing where to focus our efforts. At the time, leadership was […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by David Jakubowski, director of publisher solutions at Facebook. The benefits of header bidding on the web are well documented: Publishers receive an average increase of 15% to 30% – even as high as 50% […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, an independent media and advertising consultant. I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of reach recently. My background is mostly mid-sized to large ad and media agencies, so reach has largely […]

If a new ad tech partner generates $50,000 in revenue for a publisher, is it safe to assume that gross revenue will increase by the same amount? Publishers that unify their analytics and rigorously test those partners increasingly are finding that the answer is no. “There is no such thing as purely incremental revenue,” said […]

“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 Milen Mahadevan, chief operating officer at 84.51°. As the explosion of data grows, many are consumed with questions of data quality, connectedness and infrastructure, not to mention what to do […]

“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 Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Such is the state of the tech industry today that companies are trying to solve nearly every problem with the blockchain. Advertising technology is not […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Laura Joukovski, senior vice president of media and analytics at TechStyle Fashion Group. Many claim TV advertising is dead, or at least dying. As digital alternatives emerge for advertisers and content consumption patterns shift from […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by 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. Marketers and publishers want access to more quality data to scale beyond their respective first-party data, yet they often overlook […]

After years of investing in brand-building tactics on TV, RetailMeNot, which was acquired for $630 million by payment processor Harland Clarke and went private in April, is moving its working media budget into digital video. That’s not to say RetailMeNot is entirely abandoning TV, since the broadcast medium drives brand lift during periods when there […]

“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 Mike Kelly, CEO at Kelly Newman Ventures. In 2016, non-tech companies bought more tech companies than ever before. According to Bloomberg, 682 technology firms were purchased by companies in an industry […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Bruno Rebouças, chief executive officer at ProgMedia. Today’s media-buying trends show that programmatic deals will keep growing aggressively compared to direct buys. Some key advertisers have already reached a point where all of their […]

“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. Despite not having an ad-focused business model, Amazon keeps Sir Martin Sorrell up at night and is the most likely candidate 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 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 […]