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  • Today’s CMO Must Redefine Marketing And Identity

    “Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. Today’s consumers are highly demanding. They expect curated movie recommendations from Netflix, one-click restaurant reservations from OpenTable, on-demand limousine service from Uber, limitless housing options from Airbnb and the world of commerce available 24/7 from Amazon […]

  • Provisioning: Data’s New Paradigm

    “Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. The promise of “data is the new oil” has slowly come to fruition over the last five years. Connected devices are producing data at a Moore’s-law-like rate, and companies are building the artificial intelligence systems to […]

  • The Five Principles Of Modern Marketing

    “Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. Every marketer and media company these days is trying to unlock the secret to personalization. Everyone wants to be the next Amazon, anticipating customer wants and desires and delivering real-time customization. Actually, everyone might need to […]

  • How Ad Tech And Mar Tech Will Come Together (Or Not)

    “Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. Gartner’s Marty Kihn recently made an argument that ad tech and mar tech would not come together, contrary to what he had predicted a few years ago. When Marty speaks about ad tech, people listen. Like […]

  • Deepening The Data Lake: How Second-Party Data Increases AI For Enterprises

    “Managing the Data” is a new column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. I have been hearing a lot about data lakes lately. Progressive marketers and some large enterprise publishers have been breaking out of traditional data warehouses, mostly used to store structured data, and investing in infrastructure […]

  • The Era Of AI Will Be Ruled By UI

    “Managing the Data” is a new column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara.  In 1960, the US Navy coined a design principle: Keep it simple, stupid. When it comes to advertising and marketing technology, we haven’t enjoyed a lot of “simple” over the last dozen years or so. In […]

  • 'Real-Time’ Marketing: Still Not Quite A Reality

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of global data strategy and agency lead at Krux. The term “real time” is bandied about in the ad technology space almost as heavily as the […]

  • The Rise Of Addressable Video And Banner-Ad Bans

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, vice president of global data strategy and agency lead at Krux. As a longtime digital practitioner, I sometimes feel ashamed that I haven’t clicked on many banner ads in the last 10 […]

  • CX: The CFO’s New Best Friend

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of global data strategy and agency lead at Krux. Although it’s starting to become a well-worn aphorism, “data is the new oil” resonates more than ever. […]

  • DMPs Go Way Beyond Segmentation

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of global data strategy and agency lead at Krux. Any AdExchanger reader probably knows more about data management technology than the average Joe, but many probably […]

  • Yes, Virginia, ‘Big Data’ Is Real (And Can Be Used In Marketing)

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. We’ve been hearing about big data driving marketing for a long time, and to be honest, most is purely aspirational. Using […]

  • How Political Campaigns Are Putting People Data To Work

    “AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. We have all heard about the Democratic Party’s skill with data, and there is no doubt the Obama campaign’s masterful use of first-party registration data to drive […]

  • Why Are Marketers With Sparse Data Licensing DMPs?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. If you think about the companies with perhaps the least amount of consumer data, you may automatically think about consumer packaged […]

  • Data Triangulation: How Second-Party Data Will Eat The Digital World

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Marketers are frustrated with spending as much as 60% of their working media dollars to fund intermediaries between themselves and their […]

  • How Will Consultants, Header Bidding And Agencies Fare In 2016?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. 2015 was a fantastic year for many data-driven marketers, with data management platforms (DMPs), consultancies and marketers getting something nice under […]

  • The Match Game: Match Rates Are The New Click-Through Rates

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Marketers comparing data management platforms have probably asked a vendor about match rates. Unfortunately, many don’t understand what they are asking […]

  • DMP 4-5-6

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. As I’ve previously discussed, there are several basic use cases of the modern data management platform (DMP) for marketers. They include […]

  • Programmatic 3.0: The Next Paradigm In Inventory Procurement

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Marketers have always craved access to quality audience at scale. That was once as easy as scheduling buys on the top […]

  • DMP 1-2-3

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Almost every marketer is starting to lean into data management technology. Whether they are trying to build an in-house programmatic practice, […]

  • Total Automation May Put Publishers Back On The Map

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. It’s been a long time since publishers have truly been in control of their inventory. But that’s changing, with new trends that are steadily giving […]

  • An Ad Tech Temperature Check

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Clayton Christensen, the father of “disruptive innovation,” would love the ad technology industry. With more than 2,500 Lumascape companies across various […]

  • What Do Marketers Want From Ad Technology?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. If you read AdExchanger regularly, you might think that nearly every global marketer has a programmatic trading strategy. They also seem […]

  • Cross-Device Identity: Data Management’s New Battleground

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. A recent analyst report made an astute observation that all marketers should consider: It’s not about “digital marketing” anymore – it’s […]

  • What Role Should Agencies Play In Data Management?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. Twenty years after the first banner ad, the programmatic media era has firmly taken hold. The holy grail for marketers is […]

  • Could Programmatic Branding Have a Breakthrough Year?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. With companies like Kraft and Kellogg’s starting to leverage the programmatic pipes for equity advertising, we are starting to hear a […]

  • How Can Advertisers Bypass The Industry’s Walled Gardens?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. In this increasingly cross-device world, marketers have been steadily losing the ability to connect with consumers in meaningful ways. Being a […]

  • The Future of Programmatic: Programmatic Futures?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Back in 2007, a company called TRAFFIQ started one of the first programmatic futures exchanges. The idea was simple. […]

  • Mobile Is The Beast

    “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 Chris O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Mobile is truly the biggest opportunity in advertising right now. Sorry, but nothing else even comes close. Not only […]

  • We Punched the Monkey And It Punched Back

    “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 Chris O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. I recently tried to explain what I do for a living to my 14-year-old son. I found myself telling […]

  • Do Digital Media Agencies Have a Plan?

    “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 Chris O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Digital agencies used to get paid for unpacking an incredibly complicated digital landscape for marketers. Faced with all kinds […]

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