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  • Polar Spins Off Its Programmatic Buy-Side Business Into A New Company Called Nova

    Bucking the consolidation trend, creative ad tech company Polar is spinning out its buy side-focused programmatic offerings into a standalone business. The new entity, called Nova, launched on Monday with Polar CEO Kunal Gupta as its chief exec. Gupta will serve as CEO of both Polar and Nova with Leah Malone as CRO and GM […]

  • How I Would Change Facebook’s Algorithm

    “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 Kunal Gupta, CEO at Polar. I believe Facebook’s course ahead will have to start with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg showing some humility and accepting that they were wrong in […]

  • Social Distancing – And Meditating – With Friends: Polar CEO Kunal Gupta

    “Visualize where you are. It may be a city or a neighborhood … the building … the home … the floor … the room.” In honor of Mental Health Month, we did something a little different in this episode. The second half is a guided meditation session led by Kunal Gupta who, in addition to […]

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    Why Facebook Ads May Not Work As Well Anymore

    “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 Kunal Gupta, CEO at Polar. Facebook last week announced that its Off-Facebook Activity (OFA) tool would be available to more than 2 billion users worldwide. The tool debuted in a […]

  • How I Would Break Up Facebook

    “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 Kunal Gupta, CEO at Polar. Several political, business and tech leaders have called for the break up of Facebook, usually suggesting that Facebook split its core social networking app from […]

  • Most Branded Content Businesses Need An Upgrade

    “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 Kunal Gupta, founder and CEO at Polar. When I ask publishers how they are differentiating their branded content business, the common response I hear is, “We create the highest-quality content.” […]