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  • ISP Tracking: Consumers Aren’t The Only Ones Who Lose

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaan Janes, senior vice president of market development at Yieldbot. The new law President Trump recently signed that rolls back many broadband consumer privacy protections has profound implications for consumers. But there’s another group […]

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  • Snap’s Branded Storytelling A Bold Strategy For Mobile Advertisers

    “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 Daniel Meehan, CEO at PadSquad. You can’t monetize poor creative. Yet so many content creators, brands and publishers simply “turn on” advertising with an automated ad tech solution and check […]

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  • We Need To Break A Few Bad Habits To Advance OTT Advertising

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ed Kim, vice president of product and strategy at Nielsen Catalina Solutions. The silos are coming down between digital, mobile and TV, in all its different formats. Although the industry continues to splinter, the […]

  • 6 Questions Marketers Need To Answer Before Taking Their Media In-House

    “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 Andrew Shebbeare, co-founder and chief product officer at Essence. Let’s get this out of the way: I’m biased. I set up an agency 12 years ago, and I still work […]

  • Quartz Publisher Takes Disciplined Approach To Making Quality Journalism Profitable

    Nearly five years ago, Quartz publisher Jay Lauf set out to create “the business news brand of our century.” Lauf sees Quartz well on its way to reaching that goal. At launch, the company aimed to provide readers with a mobile, social-focused alternative to current high-quality business news sites. Most, like The Economist, required a […]

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  • Better Teams Create Better Ads

    “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 Kate O’Loughlin, senior vice president of media business at Tapad. More than ever, advertisers, agencies and ad tech vendors are trying to find the best way to amplify the efforts […]

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  • Bidding Farewell To The Audience

    “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 Dillon Roulet, founder and CEO at Syndic8. Advertising without an audience sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s a reality that’s destined to take hold sooner, rather than later. When programmatic […]

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  • Ad Tech Transparency And The Question of Market Manipulation

    “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 Nico Neumann, senior research analyst for programmatic strategy and analytics at the University of South Australia. Following many critical expert comments and scandals in 2016, the transparency debate finally seems to […]

  • Are The NewFronts Suited To Our Fragmented Media Landscape?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Prasad, chief strategy officer at VideoAmp. Since the debut of the NewFronts several years ago, media channels have proliferated, new content formats have bloomed and we use technology to consume content anywhere. Thus, […]

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  • Netflix’s Use Of Big Data: Lessons For Brand Marketers

    “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 Jonathan Cohen, principal brand analyst at Amobee. Last Friday, Netflix founder Reed Hastings celebrated Netflix getting its 100 millionth subscriber, a major milestone for a company that has spent the […]

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  • Facebook Stories: The Video Tipping Point For Publishers

    “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. This time last year, there were reports that “original sharing” on Facebook was in decline. A year later, and Facebook has released Stories – a video-sharing feature […]

  • Are Algorithms Ruining Marketing?

    “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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. Inspired by results from retargeting, marketers are scrambling to stitch together customer data, unleash machine learning and deliver personalized experiences in display and […]

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  • Hulu Grooms Its Tech Stack To Support Advanced TV

    Hulu is moving into phase two of its advanced TV strategy almost two years after launching its private exchange. But the market has changed since then, and Hulu has evolved its own ad technology stack in lockstep. For starters, Facebook shuttered the LiveRail supply-side platform (SSP) and ad server last year, so Hulu migrated to Tremor’s video SSP. Rather than entering a drawn-out RFP […]

  • What Blockchain Can (And Can’t) Solve For Ad Tech

    “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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Few technologies are riding as high on the hype curve right now as blockchain. With its distributed nature, smart contract functionality and […]

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  • The Match Game: Publishers And Ad Tech Vendors Need To Find The Best Fit

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Laura Gaffney, vice president of global publisher and business development at Prohaska Consulting. When the fit is right, the relationship between publisher and ad tech developer can create a powerful synergy. The benefits are […]

  • Contextual Brand Safety: Now What?

    “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 Montgomery, global executive vice president, brand safety, at GroupM. On Feb. 9, The Times, one of oldest and most venerable newspapers in the world, ran a story titled “Big […]

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  • In Big Media Reviews, It’s The Little Things That Matter

    “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. It’s no secret that there’s been a massive uptick in media reviews in recent years, a trend that shows no signs of slowing. Unsurprisingly, the […]

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  • Aggressive Experimentation: Key To Finding The Right Distribution Channels, Technology

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Walters, CEO at Encompass Digital Media. While in the past, media and entertainment providers had only a few channels to deliver content to consumers, today content can be consumed virtually anywhere, anytime and […]

  • The Impression Token: A Cure For Ad Fraud?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Romain Job, US general manager at Smart AdServer.  Every day brings new stories of ad fraud. In a market that is increasingly programmatic, it has become very easy and profitable to build machines to […]

  • How Digital TV Hobbyists Go Pro

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Iddo Shai, director of product at Kaltura. As someone who works in online video, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention – which starts Saturday – always felt like the show of the titans. […]

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  • The Tactical Implications Of The Walled Gardens

    “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. The growth of walled gardens has quickly brought media buyers through the first four stages of grief: Denial: Those little text ads don’t really work […]

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  • XO Group: The Yelp, OpenTable And Netflix For Weddings

    Most of the 2 million couples who get married each year in the United States visit XO Group’s The Knot website when planning their big event. So how does a company that’s already cornered the wedding-planning market grow? XO Group wants to move from inspiring brides to helping them coordinate their weddings. It hopes to […]

  • Machines Can’t Make Sweet Marketing Jazz

    “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 Doug Smith, senior director of product management, platform and user experience, at Turn. With all that’s been written about AI in ad tech, it’s time to check in on the […]

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  • Brands Need A Data Strategy That’s In A League Of Its Own

    “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 Tony Blankemeyer, partnerships lead at 84.51°. Spring is in the air, and the Major League Baseball season is in full swing. In baseball, you can’t score a run for your […]

  • What Digital Video Advertisers Can Learn About Measurement From DRTV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Patrick Hopf, founder and president at SourceKnowledge. Unless you have a hard conversion point on your website, measuring ad performance can be a tricky game. This is especially true for advertisers who run massive […]

  • The Market For Ad-Tech Startups Is As Inhospitable As Ever

    “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 Hagai Tal, CEO at Taptica. At the beginning of last year, ad tech saw a market correction. After several years of overvaluation, investors had finally sobered up. By late 2016, […]

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  • A Struggle To Value Content Emerges When Publishers Lose Sight Of Their Distribution Channels

    “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. The way people understand the programmatic opportunity in the publishing business is beginning to change. Publishers used to hire sales leaders who understood the language of programmatic and […]

  • How To Waste Retail Ad Dollars: Ignore Product Stock Levels, Chase Clicks

    “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 Andreas Reiffen, founder and CEO at Crealytics. If marketers are looking to waste their ad dollars, today’s digital ecosystem offers no shortage of options. They can advertise to a user […]

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  • Sky Media’s Digital And Programmatic Efforts Take Flight

    British broadcasting and telecom giant Sky is building for a future where digital and programmatic TV play on the same court. To do so, Sky, amid a $14.1 billion takeover by Twenty-First Century Fox, is investing in new media opportunities and ramping up on ad tech. To boost its presence on Facebook and YouTube, Sky just acquired […]

  • As The Facebook-Google Duopoly Fragments, Agencies Win

    “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. Although 2017 prediction pieces are barely 90 days old, we’re seeing an important development that few, if any, mentioned: We may be […]

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