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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. If you’re like me, you get calls, introduction emails and LinkedIn messages all the time from companies trying to figure out how to get 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 Ocean Fine, vice president of agency and strategic partnerships at Factual. The ability to leverage location data – not just to launch targeted advertising campaigns, but to learn about an […]

“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. Today, data is more of a language than a product. What has challenged many businesses is their ability to translate the new mountains of data they’ve collected internally […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kevin Kohn, CEO at iQ Media. Today’s living room looks a bit different than it did in the 1960s, or even the 1990s, but its focal point remains the same: the television. While cutting […]

“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 Amber Naslund, senior director of industry leadership at Hootsuite. Many businesses struggle to measure their social media efforts. For most, the trouble starts right at the beginning: What, exactly, should we […]

Match Media Group runs an ad business for a dating subscription company. Because ad business revenue accounts for only a small piece of the pie, the ad team always considers the effects of its ads on the user experience. “A fairly good parallel is Amazon,” said Peter Foster, GM of global advertising and brand solutions. […]

“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 Sanjay Agarwal, vice president of engineering at Drawbridge. In the ad tech ecosystem before OpenRTB, proprietary protocols caused long integration cycles, more code complexity and maintenance and custom logic for […]

“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. In the last six months, both Facebook and Google have launched formal, public marketing-mix modeling (MMM) partnership programs. Participating vendors are allowed special access to […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Dario Diament, vice president of product and strategy at Headway. Video advertising has become the marketer’s top choice for reaching and engaging consumers, with pre-roll ad units being the most favored format. But as anyone […]

“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 Julia Amorim, CEO at MediaNet. In the famous scene from the 1992 movie “A Few Good Men,” Jack Nicholson’s character asks Tom Cruise if he wants answers, to which Cruise’s […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by David Hills, managing director of strategy at The 614 Group. There’s no place where complexity and the need to innovate is starker than at the intersection of campaign and account management. As publishers increasingly […]

“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 Sarah Denman, vice president of insights at 84.51°. Every business faces disruptors of some kind. They often come in the form of technology, services or products. We all know their […]

OTT is a catch-22 for advertisers. While it reaches the cord cutters traditional TV advertisers want to target, that audience is still difficult to track in an OTT environment. Although the channel is capturing more attention (and dollars) from the traditional TV camp, digital buyers say connected TV needs to address the issue of identity […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. A certified letter might make its way through a number of post offices as it travels from Point A to Point B, but neither the sender […]

“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 […]