“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Fritz Brumder, CEO at Brandlive. In 1981, Schlitz Beer conducted the first live taste tests during Super Bowl XV. Thirty-eight years later, this old-fashioned approach to television marketing is making a comeback with Snickers’ […]
“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 Welby Chen, chief business officer at Inneractive. Despite reports of a slowing economy, digital ad spend in China is predicted by eMarketer to double from $40.42 billion last year to more than […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Peter Wilmot, co-founder and chief technology officer at Traction Labs. While media companies struggle to monetize time and viewership, audiences continue to migrate away from owned-and-operated domains, instead relying on news feeds to aggregate […]
A year after launching a dedicated media unit, Dow Jones Media Group is doubling down on video and augmenting more native and outstream formats to combat a perennial problem: pre-roll scarcity. “Like many publishers, we see huge demand for video and wish we had more inventory we could sell,” said David Minkin, who joined Dow […]
“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 James Green, CEO at Magnetic. Radical transparency is humanity’s natural state. Look at business organizations, the state of politics or your own personal relationships and it’s clear that people are […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Nearly two years after header bidding exploded onto the programmatic scene, we are seeing a race to embrace the next big thing: server-side […]
“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 Gil Rachlin, vice president of products and R&D at Sizmek. The programmatic landscape has recently seen a rise in generic core platforms, forcing participants to look more closely at the factors […]
“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 business officer at VideoAmp. As consumers become more and more screen-agnostic in the next few years and networks increasingly turn to year-round premieres and first-run episodes, there’s just no way that […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Necheporenko, chief technology officer at Roxot. Currently, publishers are discussing emerging server-to-server header bidding solutions and latency issues but ignoring the biggest problems with website revenue: Why are publishers still relying on second-price […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Gabi Peles, chief operating officer at Eyeview. Right before the holidays the advertising industry was rocked by the revelation that Russian cyberforgers have been waging an unprecedentedly large and sophisticated campaign. These hackers tricked […]
“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 Jennifer Pelino, vice president of omnichannel media at 84.51°. With the data and technology that’s at our disposal, marketing efforts should be moving to the next level of consumer connectivity. […]
“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 recent report from online ad fraud-detection vendor WhiteOps about the millions of dollars lost to the Methbot fraud operation was the […]
Although selling ad inventory programmatically offers the promise of automation, the reality is often quite different. “There is still a lot of high-touch in programmatic,” said Reuters Solutions VP John Toth. While Toth wants the market to become more efficient and automated, Reuters realized that adding people, tech and service to programmatic spend yields 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 Joseph Lavan, vice president of data and insights at Netmining. Online advertisers have a New Jersey diner-style menu of options for using data in their campaigns, with a glut 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 Joe Hirsch, CEO at YellowHammer Media Group. When a dam is breaking, you don’t just slap some duct tape on it to keep it together. It takes quality engineering to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Justin Eisenband, director, corporate finance, TMT, at FTI Consulting and contributor to FTI Journal. As linear television viewership and MVPD subscriptions have declined recently, many TV ad sellers have been slow to react and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Adam Hecht, vice president of publisher monetization at Operative, a SintecMedia company. It seems like only yesterday that publishers were excited for header bidding, the new innovation in programmatic ad management. Actually, it was […]
“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 Collins, CEO at Adelphic. If you are in brand management, chances are you have leveraged marketing-mix modeling (MMM). In case you haven’t, MMM is the well-used planning tool that […]
“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. With allegations that Russian hackers may have meddled in the US election, cybersecurity has made […]
“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. Imagine you have $50. I tell you that I’m going to flip a coin, and if you guess the flip correctly, I’ll give […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Farrell McManus, vice president of media and publishing, North America, at MPP Global. We know that Facebook is one of the biggest sources of traffic to other sites, so even a slight algorithm change […]
“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 Sandro Catanzaro, co-founder and senior vice president of innovation and analytics at DataXu. We’ve come a long way since the Don Draper days of advertising, when creatives would drink Manhattans […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hines, a principal at Infinitive. With the development of addressable TV and dynamic ad insertion, the industry is making clear and tangible progress toward the long-discussed goal of convergence. But, at the same […]
“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 Arnold, senior director of marketplace quality at The Trade Desk. The plague of invalid traffic (IVT) is well documented across the industry, particularly in recent weeks with the discovery […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jourdain-Alexander Casale, VP of strategy at Index Exchange. 2016 saw header bidding begin to move from display and mobile into video. On the buy side, the demand for premium content escalated, and publishers continued to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Vincent Cacace, founder and CEO at Vertebrae.io. Snap Inc. wants to be the de facto camera company by taking the camera out of people’s hands and creating a frictionless portal into everyday life. 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 Marc Guldimann, CEO at Parsec Media. Paying for business outcomes has recently gained popularity with media buyers and brands. The idea is that media buyers only pay for advertising when […]
In 2016, Mashable got its programmatic house in order. When Chief Revenue Officer Ed Wise joined Mashable last spring, he immediately noticed that the tech publisher was missing out on a lot of programmatic revenue. Its viewability scores topped out below industry averages. Mashable sold inventory on the open exchanges blindly, hampering CPMs. And sales […]
“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 Davidson, US lead at DBi Consulting. I’ve been hearing a lot about marketing orchestration lately, and based on the way people are using the terminology, I think it bears […]
“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 by Patrick Salyer, CEO at Gigya. If we’ve learned anything about progress, it’s that regulation rides hot on the heels of innovation. With the birth of the airline industry, for example, came […]
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.
TTD confirmed that this CTV publisher’s errors would have made its UID2s useless for ad targeting. But TTD also said it wouldn’t have had enough information to flag the issue.
Criteo shares dropped by 20% Wednesday morning after the company reported shaky Q1 earnings and revised its guidance downward for the rest of the year.
