Mergers and acquisitions, the industry’s slow-motion pivot away from third-party data and the expansion of commerce-based business dominated the headlines for media and sell-side ad tech in 2021. What does the industry predict for 2022? More of the same as these trends continue to play out in the year ahead. First-party first In 2022 and […]
The Vox Media/Group Nine deal is only the most recent example of the consolidation trend in digital media. Publishers have been turning to M&A as a method to grow their audiences and increase their ad revenue, in addition to boosting their valuation for further deals down the road.
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro de Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Ad tech stocks are soaring even as regulators clamp down on ad tech, especially in Europe. How can we understand this irrational behavior? Let’s backtrack. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Progress is not a straight line or a smooth path, as many in history have reminded us. It seems to be the case for data […]
“The Sell Sider” is written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Like an oil corporation opposing the rise of renewables or a tobacco company lobbying for its own cause, a reactionary wing of digital advertising is struggling to accept the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. The most serious threat to publishers’ business models is coming from within. I’m talking about email-based universal IDs. In the last couple of years, media […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Fixing your own strategy and business model when the industry is a whirlwind of moving parts takes time, courage, vision and above all the ability to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Are we witnessing a renaissance in media owners’ data and audience strategies? It feels like yesterday when many media brands believed having a data strategy meant […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. I recently had the opportunity to dive deeply into how media owners approach the diversification and the coexistence of business models built on audience, data and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Digital advertising is becoming subtly and silently polarized. Not in the angry, conflicted way currently witnessed in politics, but a bifurcation in the road ahead is […]
