“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 Jeremy Hlavacek, vice president of operations and strategic partnerships at The Weather Company’s WeatherFX Data Unit. Yield is the lifeblood of digital publishers. The primary business goal of all […]
“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 Kolin Kleveno, director of performance display at 360i. With Facebook Exchange expanding its canvas to the desktop News Feed, marketers face a new set of challenges. Unlike traditional publisher […]
“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 Hilary Kolman, director of analytics and insight at MEC North America. There has been a clear shift in digital ad technology during the past several years, with firms 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 Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. I’ve been struggling lately with some oddities in how the “programmatic” media space functions. Ad-tech infrastructure — both the “standard” digital infrastructure made […]
“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 Sloan Gaon, CEO of PulsePoint. There’s no doubt that we’re living and breathing in a programmatic world. Programmatic buying is here and it’s expanding fast, with leading industry experts, […]
“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 Mahi de Silva, CEO of Opera Mediaworks. Marketers have always felt confident in search advertising’s return on investment. There isn’t any better indicator of purchase intent than someone typing […]
“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 David Shapiro, vice president of corporate development at DataXu. In the four years real-time bidding has been commercially available, it has emerged as one of the industry’s fastest-growing technologies. […]
“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, Chief Revenue Officer at NextMark. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the hourglass funnel. Most funnels stop at the thin bottom, when a customer “drops” out, having made […]
“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 Marc Grabowski, chief operating officer at Nanigans. Ever since the first DSPs hung their shingles, the flood of venture-capital dollars into the Software-as-a-Service space has forced senior executives 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 Jed Nahum, Senior Director of Programmatic Sales at Microsoft Advertising. A friend of mine once lamented, “As an industry, we ruin words.” It’s true. A few years ago, we […]
“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 Shebbeare, founding partner and global chief strategist at Essence. I’ve warned before that digital marketers spend too much time chasing conversions that were likely to happen on 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 Don Mathis, CEO at Kinetic Social. The accelerating monetization initiatives of the social media “Big Three” – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – have received a fair share of headlines […]
“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 Marcus Pratt, director of insights and technology at Mediasmith. Since Facebook created its exchange, FBX, by opening up inventory to DSPs and other biddable display buyers, the industry has […]
“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 Ted Prince, senior vice president of media and new ventures for Neustar Inc. The marketing industry has a long history of embracing emerging trends, then dismissing them as passing […]
“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 Amit Avner, founder and CEO at Taykey. With all the buzz about self-serve ad platforms, it might seem as if everyone is using them. But, as the saying goes, […]
“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 Veerle De Lombaerde, global product director at The Exchange Lab. Consider the following scenario: You spent months educating your client about the value of programmatic buying. Based on your […]
“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 Khurrum Malik, CMO of eXelate. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. — excerpt from “The Rime […]
“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 Mark Torrance, Chief Technology Officer of Rocket Fuel Inc. In May 2010, the Dow plunged more than 900 points when algorithms began a high-speed selling spree — based on […]
“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 Bill Duggan, group executive vice president at the ANA (Association of National Advertisers). In marketing procurement, industry stakeholders have been repeating many of the same conversations for years. It’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 Serge Del Grosso, Media Director of SapientNitro. Digital-media planners are facing increasing pressure, and not just from their usual heavy workloads. There’s also all the pressure from the new […]
“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 Anthony Katsur, CEO of Maxifier. Want to target your online ad to men living in Wisconsin who like to read about politics, are researching a vacation in Hawaii, have […]
“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 Adam Heimlich, a digital consultant currently under contract with Accordant Media. If you own an ad-tech company, you probably envision the service layer of your offering as a very […]
“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 Mitch Weinstein, Senior Vice President of Ad Operations at UM. In light of Mozilla’s announcement that it will block third-party cookies on an upcoming version of Firefox, the buzz […]
“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 Andrew Casale, VP of Strategy at Casale Media. Plenty of ad exchange buying patterns just make sense. There’s increased demand over the holidays, for instance, when more consumers are shopping, and retail […]
“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 Sid Shah, Director of Business Analytics for Advertising Solutions at Adobe. As a technical, data-savvy CMO, you want to make all key strategic decisions based on data and predictive […]
“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 Mugnier, Senior Vice President at M&C Saatchi Mobile. Watching a BBC documentary recently, I learned one of my new favorite statistics: At any one time, approximately one million […]
“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 Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Global Chief Strategist at Essence. Only a few years ago, I grazed on hundreds of different destination sites. These days, there are only three […]
“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 Joshua Koran, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Turn. The industry has settled on a hot new buzz phrase: programmatic direct. This certainly describes what the industry is […]
“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 Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO & Founder of RadiumOne. Marketers are accustomed to investing quite a lot of capital to build their core audiences. Until now, that’s mostly meant collecting mounds […]
“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 Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. One day I came to work and realized that everything had changed. My branch of the industry had upgraded from the […]
