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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. It’s generally thought that second-price auctions are better at extracting maximum bids from buyers than first-price auctions. The auction mechanics of eBay, the […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I spend a lot of time these days looking for silver linings in every […]

“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. If a brand hands off advertising and marketing tasks to an online network, can it also hand off legal liability? The recent actions […]

“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 Todd Ruback, chief privacy officer and vice president of legal affairs at Ghostery. There has been a vast amount of misguided content on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) flying around […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Recommendation widgets – those spammy “Around the Web” ads – may provide short-term revenue, but they likely come at the expense of long-term company growth and brand power. I won’t […]

“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 Matthew Mobley, chief technology officer at Merkle. At a marketing event I recently attended, there was one aspect that resonated with me the most: the marketing funnel and how marketers […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Driscoll, CEO at Metamarkets. With each passing day, mobile video consumption is becoming more prevalent and convenient. In September, enhancements to mobile browsers removed a common deterrent to watching videos by enabling autoplay. […]

“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 Nick Gibbons, global head of customer success at ReFUEL4. Facebook once again beat its earnings forecast earlier this month. But the share price dropped by almost 8% after the earnings […]

“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 Todd Van Fleet, managing partner at Van Fleet Capital Strategies. The recent news that Adobe is acquiring video demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul may accelerate industry speculation that other marketing cloud […]

Two former Cablevision execs – former COO Kristin Dolan and former media sales President Ben Tatta – are bringing their experience in local TV advertising to the national level. The two formed an audience measurement and analytics firm called 605 earlier this month through an acquisition of Analytics Media Group (AMG), the data and analytics […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Many supply-side platforms (SSPs) herald header bidding as a liberating force, democratizing access to the publisher ad server and opening hitherto inaccessible inventory. Yet this myopic view – 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 Emily Riley, CEO at Riley Strategic. This Thanksgiving is going to be a weird one for people who work in media and advertising. Most of us live and work 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 Tony Blankemeyer, startup liaison at 84.51°. I’ve seen startup pitches for everything: new takes on food, digitized shelves, fancy carts, drones for warehousing, robotic chefs, social media management, VR shops, […]

“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. ProPublica’s Julia Angwin broke the news recently that Google has quietly begun to merge personally identifiable information (PII) with the ad-serving data collected […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ryan Jamboretz, chief revenue officer at Videology. Premium video is a huge success story, with great-quality shows and content watched and engaged with by consumers around the world. It’s where TV and video truly […]

“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 Tuminello, senior director of product at Innovid. It is becoming increasingly clear that data-driven creative is on the rise. For evidence, look no further than ad tech leaders like […]

“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. Time Inc., Thrillist and other publishers recently announced important hires for a hot growth strategy they’re betting on: search engine optimization. Is this 2006 or 2016? It […]

“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 Ryan Griffin, senior vice president of strategy at Opera Mediaworks. Five years ago, millions of people watched the same programs and commercials at the same time, often leading to an […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Todd Tran, global senior vice president of mobile and programmatic at Teads. Programmatic is the Industrial Revolution of media. It has transformed the media industry, creating hundreds of ad tech companies with this seismic […]

Hearst’s media encompasses magazines, broadcast networks and newspapers, but tapping into its massive scale means logging deals into 17 separate systems or setting up multiple deal IDs. Over the past year, Hearst’s Core Audience division has brought its properties onto the same ad server, exchange and data management platform. Hearst also built its own viewability […]

“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. One of the interesting trends we will see continue over the coming years is how more advertisers will take ownership 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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. Whether you’re watching television or listening to the radio, you’re bound to catch an ad soliciting participants for a clinical trial. These trials can’t take […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andreas Schroeter, co-founder and chief operating officer at wywy. TV’s ad budgets are under pressure to shift toward digital buys. Yet even Facebook can’t provide TV’s unmatched reach and recently admitted video ad measurement […]

“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 Alain Portmann, partner and head of strategy and insights at House of Kaizen.   McDonald’s decision to appoint Omnicom to its US creative account, on the basis of a pay-per-performance component, […]

“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 Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO at Segment. Despite the rise of data-driven marketing, I would argue the future of marketing is still very much creative – albeit deeply engineering-enabled. Effectively […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Mason, CEO at Purch. The New York Times made its own headlines when it recently acquired Wirecutter, the five-year-old online product review site, for an estimated $30 million. For one of the world’s […]

“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 Ned Blaine, performance strategy manager at Turn. When Christmas Tree Shops opened in the ’50s, the Massachusetts-based store sold Christmas merchandise in the months of July and August. It played […]

Kantar Media, long considered a rival to Nielsen’s mainstay TV measurement business internationally, is restructuring the way it goes to market. Although Kantar Media previously operated as one of 12 distinct brands within the Kantar Group, sometimes there was a lack of visibility between different brands. “We’ve had a very strange organizational structure,” admits Andy Brown, chairman 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 John Yang, vice president of platform services at Bidtellect. Once deemed a fleeting trend, viewability now has a place in almost every digital advertising campaign, regardless of device, format or […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Paul Cimino, global head of data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. Not so long ago, publishers produced and distributed content to attract and monetize their audiences. Since content was relatively scarce, brands paid high CPMs […]