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 Nico Neumann, senior research analyst for programmatic marketing strategy and analytics, University of South Australia. Transparency in media buying continues to be a widely discussed topic. The second part of 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 Matt Brummett, chief operating officer at Answer Media. Don’t worry. This isn’t yet another pile-on piece about the unfair walled-garden tactics of the major digital advertising players. There has been […]

Studio71, a multichannel video network (MCN) owned by German broadcast, radio and print media giant ProSieben, aims to be a media company for the social media creator. To ensure content makers and brands work together effectively, Studio71 snagged agency vet Matt Seiler as president of marketing solutions last month. The former chairman of IPG Mediabrands […]

For most of Imgur’s history, the bootstrapped company sold ads programmatically. And with 150 million unique visitors and 6 billion page views globally, the media company had enough scale to do well, even if CPMs skewed lower than direct. But that approach left money on the table. Imgur’s millennial male, geek culture-focused community is highly […]

“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 Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. There have been many successful Trojan horse plans executed in digital media over the years. I’m talking about the Greeks-in-Troy kind, not […]

“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 Tom Laband, co-founder and CEO at adsquare. Marketers urgently need to make digital advertising more relevant – particularly on mobile devices where consumers expect, even demand, a more personal touch. […]

“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 Martin Delaney, co-founder and chief operating officer at Yavli.  Right now, there’s a war of code taking place between software engineers and hackers that will influence future industry decision-making. On […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ariel Napchi, founder and CEO at HIRO Media. Programmatic advertising was supposed to create an environment in which a viewer is only exposed to relevant ads, a premise TV never succeeded in fulfilling. 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 John Lee, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Merkle. The rise of programmatic over the past five years has moved the media industry forward in a big way. […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Longo, CEO of US Media at IDG Communications. It’s a data-driven world, and digital ad buyers still rely on the legacy notion that “scale” is necessary to harness as many eyeballs and as much […]

“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 Kobi Edelstein, vice president of advertising at Appnext. Advertising across any medium is always fluid and ever a delicate mix. Nowhere is this truer than in the mobile app space. […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeff Minsky, senior vice president of agency and client development at Unruly.  It’s rarer to find multiple tech sectors applauding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for any action it takes than it is to […]

When Google vet Brit Morin created Brit + Co to focus on the millennial DIY set, she didn’t want to rely on the web’s surest, most turnkey form of monetization: banner ads. She thinks banner ads will become extinct. She also believes programmatic will fall by the wayside as advertisers choose branded content, video 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 Brandon Atkinson, chief people officer at AppNexus. Imagine driving to your office, dropping off your dog with a caretaker, leaving your laundry with a drycleaner and buckling up your cycling […]

“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. These days, sports commentary juggernaut Bill Simmons has found himself on the other side of the interview table, with his media […]

“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. Fraud costs marketers $7.2 billion annually, according to the ANA. Ask buyers who’s at fault and they’ll say they’re not sure, but they […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jes Santoro, senior vice president of programmatic and advanced TV at TubeMogul. I first started in this business nearly 20 years ago as an assistant national TV buyer at BBDO. Thinking back, it’s amazing […]

“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 Oded Poncz, founder and chief technology officer at Ubimo. The families in “Game Of Thrones” (GOT) fight gory, bloody battles to sit on the Iron Throne and rule the seven […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by AJ Okereke, head of revenue technology at Graphiq. Header bidding is a sell-side technology that allows advertisers to use real-time pricing to compete for a given impression within a publisher’s programmatic auction. This influx […]

“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 Roy Rosenfeld, co-founder and CEO at Stands. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced last week their intention to step up pressure on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) […]

“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 Harris Busdieker, director of customer communications at 84.51°. Spending more and getting less for it is the reality facing manufacturers and retailers today. Sale signs, shelf tags and other […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Gatz, CEO and founder at Q.Digital. Dear ad tech community, Medium-sized publishers deliver campaigns that are as complicated as those delivered by larger networks, but we need to do so with a much […]

“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 Carlson, senior vice president of experience design at DigitasLBi. Advertising agencies have always been on the forefront of creativity and engagement, innovating new ways for brands and customers 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 Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. The mobile web does not monetize particularly well for publishers. User data, bandwidth and screen size constraints make it inevitable. The harsh reality that mobile […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Alex Bornyakov, CEO at VertaMedia. When the IAB launched VAST 4.0 in January, the impact of its sophisticated and streamlined technology protocols on the video advertising industry was forecast to be tremendous. VAST, an […]

“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 Maciej Zawadziński, CEO at Clearcode. Agency-client trust has never been more tenuous. The Association of National Advertisers’ recent report on transparency highlights a range of problems, such as publisher kickbacks, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Hadrien Bouchrara, solution architect, Facebook Audience Network. Native advertising isn’t just the wave of the future – native is creating real business value for marketers all over the world at this moment. But many […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Douglas, director of product strategy at Sizmek. As the biggest walled gardens on the web, Google and Facebook have become enormously successful. A walled garden in this context is an ad-supported platform 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 Craig Dempster, EVP, Agency Group Leader, Merkle. With the celebrity sightings, gourmet food and entertainment and rosé wine flowing, it’s easy to understand why many see events like Cannes Lions […]

Once, E.W. Scripps was a newspaper company. Now it’s a digital media, broadcast TV, over-the-top (OTT) and podcasting company. Along the way, it shed its newspapers, which are now part of Journal Communications, and its cable channels, spun off in 2008 into Scripps Networks Interactive. It also has been acquisitive. E.W. Scripps expanded into podcasting […]