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  • The Advertising Value of Shopping Data: Finding Target Markets

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is Part II of a two-part column (Part I is here) written by Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at Akamai. Mention ‘shopping data’ to an agency […]

  • Slow to Move: Why Inventory Centralization Is Taking More Time Than We Thought

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of XA.net, a demand-side platform. The companies like ours that started looking at the buying-side opportunity in display in 2007 were encouraged by what […]

  • Is It A Pony Or A Hand Puppet? Enhancing Brand Safety Through Real-Time Bidding

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. “If it is in fact a hand puppet, which finger is the head of the pony?”  This question nicely sums up the brand […]

  • Ad Tags and Stove Pipes

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Mike Lewis, President and Co-Founder of Ad-Juster, an ad server discrepancy management company. Whether relaying target coordinates of hostile and friendly forces on a battlefield or passing […]

  • Are Data-Driven Opportunities for Ad Agencies Passing Them By?

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Brad Terrell is VP and General Manager of Digital Media at Netezza, a data warehouse and analytic appliances company. Agency holding firms face significant strategic and operational […]

  • Winning In An Ad Exchange World

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. Over the last two years, ad exchanges have brought an unprecedented level of targeting and […]

  • Beyond The Hype: Why Real-Time Bidding On Ad Exchanges Is Challenged

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. As the “AdWords-ish-ness” of DoubleClick’s AdX 2.0 interface makes obvious, the goal of today’s exchanges […]

  • 10 Reasons Why Advertising Campaigns Reach The Wrong Audience

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. In 2006, Greg Stuart, Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO, estimated that advertisers’ waste, that is, […]

  • Stepping Our Way To Real Market Data

    “Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of CPM Advisors, an online advertising company. In the online ad business we often get caught up in flawed comparisons to the financial services […]

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