Inaccurate Segments May Be Costing Advertisers Billions

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“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 Kelly, founder and CEO at Survata. We’ve all read the doom-and-gloom news about programmatic problems, from YouTube’s brand safety issues to brand advertisers culling their spending and companies likeContinue reading »



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Facebook Revealed Its Games of the Year for 2017

Facebook Revealed Its Games of the Year for 2017
Facebook revealed its Games of the Year for 2017, as determined by a panel of eight industry experts. The panel judged games in four categories: Instant Games, web games, free-to-play Gameroom games and Gameroom games. The nominees and winner for each category are listed below. Best Instant Game 4 Pics 1 Word by LOTUM Dino…
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Agency Holiday Cards 2017: The Most Creative Farewells to the Year (Pt. 4)

Agency Holiday Cards 2017: The Most Creative Farewells to the Year (Pt. 4)
We’re going to wrap up our coverage of agency holiday cards today with a fourth batch of entries–and then later today we’ll pick our five favorites. Here are links to all the cards we posted this week: Agency Holiday Cards 2017: The Most Creative Farewells to the Year Agency Holiday Cards 2017: The Most Creative…
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Papa John, One of the Last CEO Ad Stars, Will Remain the Face of the Company for Now

Papa John, One of the Last CEO Ad Stars, Will Remain the Face of the Company for Now
“Papa” John Schnatter may be stepping aside as CEO of the pizza empire he founded in 1984, but don’t expect him to vanish from the brand’s ads and packaging. As of Jan. 1, 2018, the pizza chain will be run by new CEO Steve Ritchie, who has been serving as chief operating officer, the company…
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How to Leverage Instagram in 2018

How to Leverage Instagram in 2018
Over the past 12 months, Instagram has released a near-constant series of updates. From the Superzoom creative tool and ad stop-motion camera to enable the creation of GIFs, to the ability to comment with visual media and right-to-left language support, the platform has been opened up to a wide range of new languages and audiences….
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Broadcast Nets Register Double-Digit Dip In Ratings

Through three months of the new season, NBC again has the best ad viewership for traditional Nielsen rating measures, despite TV networks’ continued declines.

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Data And Diversification: How Publishers Survived 2017

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In 2017, many online publications realized that data and revenue diversification could drive success. And not being diversified enough could hurt their business. While many publishers tout their branded content businesses, programmatic provides a reliable, easily scalable revenue stream. Publishers that were programmatic holdouts, avoiding the main way advertisers do data-driven buying, course-corrected this yearContinue reading »



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Vizio's Inscape Teams With Data Plus Math For TV Attribution Platform

Data Plus Math will use Inscape data as a source of granular TV viewership data for a “multi-touch attribution platform” to understand and attribute the purchasing gains that occur from each
advertising exposure.

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