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  • Steal This Idea: 7 Ad Tech Founders Share What Business They’d Start Today If They Could

    Ad tech founders know how to spot a trend when they see one, but there are always the ideas that got away, or the startup inspiration that sparks from a current event or a chance encounter. Today, some founding industry vets have moved on and are applying their expertise chops to brand-new industries. Post-AppNexus, Brian […]

  • Here’s What's Needed To Scale Behavioral Targeting In OTT

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Frost Prioleau, CEO at Simpli.fi. Part of the promise of over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) is that they marry the benefits of traditional television with digital marketing capabilities. A large part of digital’s […]

  • Podcast: All Advertising Is Local

    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Frost Prioleau is a longtime digital ad entrepreneur, having founded and sold two companies over the span of 13 years. The first was Personifi, a behavioral ad targeter acquired by Collective Media in 2008, followed by Simpli.fi, a programmatic platform for local advertisers. This week on […]

  • How Much Targeting Is Too Much Targeting?

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. P&G made headlines in 2016 when it announced it would scale back on Facebook targeting. At the time, P&G CMO Marc Pritchard said, […]

  • Programmatic in the ‘Second Machine Age’


    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. Programmatic advertising continues to grow faster than analysts’ expectations, leaving industry pundits to continually raise growth predictions made just months before. While this acceleration […]

  • Dynamic Audiences Beat Dynamic Ads

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder at Simpli.fi. Dynamic ads, where the ad shown to a particular user reflects products viewed or pages visited, have been a popular mainstay of programmatic advertising […]

  • How Can We Make Open Auctions Work For All Publishers?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. One of programmatic’s biggest benefits has been the liquidity it offered in the marketplace for display advertising impressions. Before programmatic and real-time bidding (RTB), in particular, the market […]

  • Programmatic Can Dial Up Radio’s Digital Revenues

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. From programmatic’s perch on the bleeding edge of advertising technology, it could be easy to dismiss radio as an advertising medium of a bygone […]

  • Programmatic Can Be More Friend Than Foe For Local Media

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. A few months back, Marc Andreesen made the bold prediction that the news industry, which includes a large group of local publishers, will grow […]

  • National Advertisers Should Take Pointers From Local Advertisers

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. National advertisers are often thought of as the most sophisticated users of programmatic technology, and for good reason. As some of the biggest spenders, […]

  • Where Is The Uber Of Online Advertising?

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. Uber is undeniably one of the great startup success stories in recent history. By solving a fairly simple problem – how to easily and […]

  • The Virtuous Cycle Of Programmatic Quality

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. Many recent articles have portrayed programmatic advertising as being in the middle of a vicious cycle, where an onslaught of nonhuman traffic and unviewable […]

  • How Big Data Can Make The Most Of Small Campaigns

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. The average small and medium-sized business (SMB) in the US spends about $400 a month on marketing, according to the US Chamber of Commerce’s […]

  • Let’s Be Clear About Transparency

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. If you search Google for “transparency + ad tech,” you’ll get more than 20 million search results. Nearly every network, DSP and publisher claims […]

  • Evidence-Based Media Buying: We Can Handle The Truth

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. In the climactic courtroom scene that closes the military thriller “A Few Good Men,” Jack Nicholson’s character delivers one of the most memorable lines […]

  • Taking The Long View On Viewability

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. It’s that time of the year when industry analysts and self-appointed pundits (including yours truly) gaze into their crystal balls and predict the future […]

  • Are We There Yet? Approaching True 1-To-1

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. In their seminal book, “The One-to-One Future,” communications strategists and futurists Don Peppers and Martha Rogers imagined a world beyond mass marketing. Somewhere beyond the television […]

  • How An RTB Takeover Could Super Size Any Given Sunday

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. The number to beat: 111.3 million impressions. That’s the all-time record for number of people who watched the Super Bowl XLVI broadcast in 2012. […]

  • Search and Display: A Lesson In What Works

    “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 Frost Prioleau, CEO of Simpli.fi. Search advertising is widely considered to be the gold standard of online advertising. One measure of success is that search has achieved recurring line-item […]