“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. A new year brings the opportunity to start fresh and kick things off the right way. Often, the resolutions we choose are direct reactions 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 by Bruce Falck, CEO at Turn. In 1968, 3M scientist Spencer Silver invented an adhesive that could stick to a surface over and over without leaving residue when removed. The invention wasn’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 Lung Huang, head of strategic partnerships at 84.51°. Well, the holidays are here and many of us are either hitting the after-Christmas sales or dreading those final projects we put […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Allison Mezzafonte, senior vice president of operations at Bauer Xcel Media. For the typical digital publishing employee, the holiday season looms in the distance like a wave over a surfer. Ride the wave right, […]
Maureen Bosetti, the chief investment officer for IPG Mediabrands’ Initiative, will discuss dynamics for this year’s upfronts alongside other TV power players at Industry Preview on Jan. 18 in New York City. The 2016 TV upfronts ended with networks posting double-digit CPM increases, but will that momentum carry into 2017? Two key factors could help buyers wield […]
“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 Joel Sadler, vice president of product at Adacus. Every so often over the last few years, well-written, thoughtful articles have popped up that identify parallels between digital advertising and the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaclyn Stewart, senior director of publisher services at The 614 Group. Publishers spent much of 2016 working through the significant challenges presented by ad blocking, privacy and user data regulations and the residual effects […]
“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 Stephen Taylor, senior vice president of enterprise solutions at Sojern. It’s hard to deny that in today’s digital ad landscape, tidal forces have coalesced around two major players: Google and […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Marcus Liassides, CEO at Sorenson Media. YouTube and Facebook hosted presidential debates. Twitter is live streaming NFL games. Amazon makes TV shows. The internet isn’t just changing how people consume content – it’s revolutionized […]
“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 McLaren, executive global group director, high-tech and business-to-business practices, at Merkle. Have you ever found yourself in a meeting where sales leadership challenged marketing leadership for evidence that their […]
“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 Scott Knoll, CEO and president at Integral Ad Science. When you look at the evolution of digital advertising, it makes sense that viewability has become a leading metric and top […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Bell, senior director of product, inventory, at TubeMogul. Dr. Frankenstein meant well. We all know the story: The young doctor discovers a secret technique to animate the lifeless. However, the creature built by […]
“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 Renee Hill, president and co-CEO at Eyereturn Marketing. Brian O’Kelley can be credited for taking the first ad tech shot at the alt-right by banning Breitbart from selling on AppNexus’ […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Haight, an executive at Infinitive. In the ad tech world, hot new technologies regularly run up the hype cycle. The pushback and skepticism begin long before they reach wide adoption. Such is 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 Michael Katz, CEO and co-founder at mParticle. There are two schools of thought when it comes to how evolution occurs. There is the gradualism model, first proposed by Darwin, suggesting […]
“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 Neil Sweeney, founder and CEO at Freckle IoT. In today’s unpredictable environment, the unconscious belief that the current state’s pace of change will reflect the future state is now more […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Stephen Upstone, CEO and founder of LoopMe. Brand marketers hire media agencies to streamline the advertising process, remove barriers and deliver clear and measurable ROI. The recent news that the MRC suspended two DoubleClick […]
“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 Hannu Verkasalo, founder and CEO at Verto Analytics. In October, Google’s webmaster trends analyst said that the company would soon implement major changes to its search engine. The search giant […]
“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. Two years ago, I saw the future of programmatic not as a budget channel, but rather a conduit through which all media changed […]
“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 Pancer, chief operating officer at Dstillery. The robots have arrived, quipped a very recent Newsweek article, and they are “coming to take your jobs, your homes, your children.” Should you be […]
Independent media and entertainment agency Media Storm is deepening its client workbench. Media Storm specializes in helping network, cable and studio clients such as Starz and CMT increase audience tune-in. Now the agency is broadening its scope to new verticals. “We’re really starting to use what we learned from the entertainment and media space and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Marketers love innovation. They love breakthrough design and taking creative risks. They love emerging channels and experimental formats. CFOs do not. CFOs love efficient deployment of capital. They […]
“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 […]
Apple has a new block list for data brokers and ad tech vendors that do cross-site user tracking – which could expand to include a much broader slate of ad tech and martech vendors across the entire ecosystem. Plus: a few thoughts on Advertising Week New York.
Against the backdrop of Advertising Week New York this week, the programmatic ecosystem has been buzzing madly like the inhabitants of an overturned beehive after the release of Apple’s iOS 27.
Given how much agentic AI pervades nearly every conversation these days, it’s easy to overlook how nascent the technology still is, particularly when it comes to buying ads on connected TV.
OAAA COO Patrick Dolan explains how the organization is changing to guide the out-of-home channel through programmatic’s agentic era.
PubX has acquired media-quality startup Compliant and raised a $5 million Series A as it expands its agentic ad-buying platform into the US.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a new white paper analyzing the data and methodologies of five top video measurement providers: VideoAmp, iSpot, Comscore, Innovid and Samba.
