“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 […]
“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. A big milestone hit me recently and unexpectedly: Ten years working in ad tech? It feels like I started just yesterday. But actually, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ian Wheal, global strategy director at Adstream. Advertisers are spending more money than ever on video. Last year, video ad spend grew by more than 85% [PDF]. Video ads consistently outperform standard banner units, […]
“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 Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. In recent weeks, the conversation drawing a distinction between marketing and advertising is finally happening in the mainstream. Most of this chatter puts […]
“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 Kenney, vice president of platform services at SpotX. The internet levels the playing field for media, lending the power to publish, distribute and reach audiences to almost anyone. For […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, vice president of business development at Index Exchange. Header bidding is the rare ad tech phenomenon where the noise is equal to the fury. Its staggering growth and adoption has propelled 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 Alon Amit, co-founder and vice president of product at Origami Logic. Facebook’s recent admission that it miscalculated the average view time of video ads for two years has sparked discussion […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Peter Cunha, head of programmatic and business development at InvestingChannel. Advertisers’ and publishers’ needs and requirements for native video are not aligned. In fact, they rarely meet. For advertisers, viewability is a key issue. […]
“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 Kim Brown, founder and CEO at Centrally Human. Marketing is going through an unprecedented evolution with the convergence of data and technology. Automation and AI are realities, data is coming […]
“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 Alice Le, vice president of mobile strategy at Ansible. Apple recently handed brand marketers the keys to a potential consumer gold mine when it made it easier for emojis, GIFs […]
“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. There are two times each year when brands’ advertising strategies are scrutinized by the general public: the Super Bowl and the kickoff of […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ian Ferreira, EVP of programmatic at WideOrbit. Marketers have turned to digital video in droves because it’s supposed to be a great way to laser-target audiences, eliminate waste and place brand messages next to premium […]
“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 Ben Goldman, vice president of digital data solutions and partnerships at Infogroup Targeting Solutions. There has long been a divide in the school of thought between consumer and business marketing. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sudha Reddy, director of ad operations, West Coast, at xAd. While it seems that everyone is talking about header bidding, fraud, cross-screen, viewability and data, I see the biggest issues facing the industry being […]
“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 Yael Avidan, vice president of product at Adelphic. The first question marketers or agencies ask ad tech vendors or media companies is probably this: “That audience is perfect, but can […]
CNN sees a future where brand activations include everything from linear TV to custom-built mobile apps. The Turner-owned broadcaster built an app for CNNMoney called CNNMoneyStream that allows users to follow and personalize a feed of companies, influencers, news and market data. CNN borrowed the concept from Turner sports property Bleacher Report. E*Trade, one 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 Nancy Hall, senior vice president at Conversant. Whether it’s a phone, laptop or tablet, cross-device matching accuracy is essential to overall marketing success. The largest obstacle of optimal accuracy is […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. There’s no question that programmatic buying, particularly real-time bidding, has created many efficiencies and been a force in shifting advertising budgets toward digital. Smart buyers […]
“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 Aaron Dodez, vice president of digital marketing at RPA. We live in a world of extremes and exaggerations. The internet can be broken (impossible) by a single tweet or celebrity […]
“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 Carla Holtze, CEO and co-founder at Parrable. During the really early days of digital media, AOL and CompuServe were basically the only two consumer portals and total digital ad spend […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tim Ware, vice president of advanced television at Tremor Video. Programmatic TV is among the most highly debated subjects in the media business and perhaps the best example of true convergence we’ve encountered as […]
Nowadays, programmatic vendors, and SSPs in particular, are carving new paths of differentiation based on their type of adoption of cloud infrastructure.
As performance takes center-stage in more advertising discussions, demands to solve fragmentation and cruddy measurement are reaching a fever pitch.
A word of caution to digital advertising companies, as they go all in on AI algorithms: They need to build these solutions with ownership, governance and accountability from the start – or AI could sink them with a single mistake.
To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.
Roblox is making its under-13 audience available to advertisers for the first time. And it named youth-focused ad marketplace SuperAwesome as its exclusive advertising partner for under-13 users.
Prebid is turning the page on what might be called its second chapter as the organization navigates some major changes in the digital advertising landscape and within its own ranks.
