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  • Index Exchange Launches A Data Marketplace For Sell-Side Curation

    Through Index Exchange’s data vendor marketplace, curators gain access to third-party data sets without needing their own integrations.

  • Melinda Han Williams, Chief Data Scientist at Dstillery

    How Self-Supervised Learning In AI Can Reduce Reliance On User Data

    Self-supervised learning is at the heart of generative AI, and it’s perfectly suited to address the signal loss we’re increasingly facing in digital advertising today.

  • How Dstillery And PurpleLab Are Targeting Pharma Ads Without Personal Identifiable Information

    Data platform Dstillery released a contextual solution with healthcare analytics company PurpleLab to help pharma advertisers target audiences without third-party cookies. The tool uses ID-less signals, such as URL, time of day of web visits and regional location, then uses that data to find patterns in online behavior that are associated with specific health conditions.

  • Melinda Han Williams, chief data scientist, Dstillery

    Leaving Cookies Behind, With Dstillery’s Chief Data Scientist Melinda Han Williams

    Former physicist Melinda Han Williams used to spend her time studying “electronic transport in nanostructured graphene devices.” These days, as chief data scientist at Dstillery, she’s creating identifier-free solutions to transport us past the end of third-party cookies.

  • What’s AI's Role In A Privacy-Centric Ad Landscape?

    “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 Melinda Han Williams, Chief Data Scientist, Dstillery.  Google’s announcement that its “data-driven attribution” – that its machine-learning-driven attribution modeling will be the default attribution method in Google Ads – took […]

  • Google’s Latest Announcement Confirms Cookie Deprecation Is A Chance To Kick The Identifier Addiction, Not Replace It

    “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 Melinda Han Williams, Chief Data Scientist at Dstillery. There’s been a great deal of hand-wringing over the future of identity in digital advertising. Google Chrome’s plan to retire third-party cookies […]

  • Dstillery Shuts Down DSP And Becomes A Data Company

    How does a smaller DSP survive, as the largest buying platforms command more of the marketplace? For Dstillery, the answer is to become a data company. Dstillery officially shut down its bidder and stopped operating a DSP on July 1. Its focus now is selling custom audience segments through the buyer’s DSP of choice. Since […]

  • Machines Vs. Media-Buying Jobs: Is Your Position On The Line?

    “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 Pancer, chief operating officer at Dstillery. The robots have arrived, quipped a very recent Newsweek article, and they are “coming to take your jobs, your homes, your children.” Should you be […]

  • Dstillery Pushes Into Programmatic Self Serve

    Dstillery released Thursday a self-serve version of its digital audience platform, combining a data management and demand-side platform. While the bulk of Dstillery’s business comes from agencies, it does some brand-direct deployments. The new self-serve offerings won’t replace Dstillery’s managed services, but will offer more flexibility to clients who wish to take an active role […]

  • Private Exchanges Aren't Immune To Ad Fraud

    “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 Pancer, chief operating officer at Dstillery. I attended the AdExchanger Clean Ads conference in New York last month. Overall, the presentations were good, but I took some issue with […]

  • Why Microsoft Matters

    Microsoft isn’t the advertising behemoth it once aspired to be when it purchased aQuantive for $6 billion in 2007. Since then, Microsoft has mostly been a publisher, selling inventory both directly and programmatically across its Microsoft Network (MSN) family of sites, its Outlook email portal, Skype and Xbox. Following the Microsoft-AOL search and display deal, […]

  • Buy-Side Guarantees Only Prolong Our Viewability Problem

    “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 Brian d’Alessandro, senior vice president of digital intelligence at Dstillery. Despite their allure, buy-side guarantees of 100% ad viewability will not solve our industry’s ad viewability problem. I believe these […]

  • Measuring the Previously Unmeasurable: Out-of-Home Goes Mobile

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Earlier this week, I participated in the Five Boro Bike Tour, a 40-mile trek through the streets of New York. We rode […]

  • Easing The Transition To Data-Driven TV Advertising

    “On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Go to any ad tech conference this spring and you’re sure to hear people buzzing about how digital video – specifically mobile video – is […]

  • Mobile Video Poised To Change How Marketers Interact With Audiences

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. After spending three days wandering the halls of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I left with a few major takeaways. First, although […]

  • Brands Use Emerging Media (And Beer) To Forge New Customer Connections

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Since the emergence of digital media, the relationship between brands and consumers has shifted from one-sided messages pushed from brands to consumers […]

  • Marketers: Prepare Now For The Internet Of Things

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. The beginning of the year brings new budgets, goals and throngs of marketers and solution providers traveling to the Consumer Electronics Show […]

  • Qualia CEO: We’re Turning Intent Signals Into Targetable Impressions For Brands

    Prior to 2011, when Greycroft Partners brought in Kathy Leake as president and founding partner of LocalResponse, the company had a different name – Buzzd – and a different business model. “The original idea was monetizing check-ins for advertisers,” she said. “If someone checks into Macy’s using Foursquare or publicly on Twitter, we would @message […]

  • Will Tools Like Apple Pay Move The Needle On Mobile Commerce?

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. With holiday shopping following close on the heels of the fall release of the iPhone 6 with Apple Pay, I expect shopping […]

  • ‘M’ Stands For More Than Mobile

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Millennials. Multicultural. Multicultural millennials. If you are a marketer, chances are these “M” words keep you up at night. It makes sense. […]

  • The Folly Of The Click-Through Rate And Simple Math

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. As Advertising Week drew to a close, a colleague of mine who is relatively new to ad tech voiced disbelief that many […]

  • Fraud-day With Dstillery: Everyone Is Responsible For Fighting Fraud

    This is the seventh in a series of interviews with vendors combating the problem of ad fraud. Other companies participating in this series include Moat, Telemetry, Sizmek, comScore and Asia RTB. Read previous interviews with DoubleVerify, Forensiq, Integral Ad Science, PubChecker, Videology and White Ops. The battle against botnets is ongoing. Ad tech firm Dstillery […]

  • Cross-Channel Silos: Data Rich, Information Poor

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Silos. We use the term as a way to refer to systems, people, data or thoughts that do not interact with each […]

  • Mobile Data: More Than Location

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Mobile is becoming the primary bridge between online and offline data, driven largely by the availability of location data via mobile devices. […]

  • Placeability: Key To Measuring The Accuracy And Legitimacy Of Mobile Signals

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. The use of location data as a signal for content messaging, user functionality and context targeting continues to grow. At the same […]

  • Dstillery Chief Data Scientist Talks Data Science And Paid Advertising

    Dstillery’s investment in data science dates to 2008, when the company – then known as Media6degrees – first applied big data analysis with a social skew. Since then it has broadened its focus to a wider range of digital media, but has retained its emphasis on the data. The person in charge of those efforts […]

  • The Quantified Self: Coming To A Data Stream Near You?

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Wearables are the latest consumer tech fad. But if you think about it, mobile phones were the first “wearable.” They became smarter […]

  • Mobile Is Key To Unlocking Store Measurement

    “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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. I recently bought a dress at a Uniqlo store in New York. Given the mobile soapbox upon which I typically stand, this […]

  • The Evolution Of Programmatic RTB In A Mobile-First 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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. When real-time bidding debuted at scale a few years ago, it was heavily associated with remnant inventory and direct-response campaigns. Fast forward […]

  • Match Rates Are A Red Herring

    “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 Phillips, CEO at Dstillery. We hear a lot about device match rates these days. Maybe too much. It started a few years ago, when the advertising industry decided it […]

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