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  • Forget Viewability: Your Ads Aren’t Serving

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Bennett Rosenblatt, rider display marketing lead at Uber. At Uber, our programmatic strategy prioritizes transparency and trust above all. We run campaigns in an enterprise self-service demand-side platform (DSP) and leverage a transparent ad server to […]

  • The Problem With The Long Tail

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. The promise of programmatic is oft-repeated as “right person, right place, right time.” And while this is likely the goal of all advertising, we typically […]

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  • The Complexity Ruse

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. I find it interesting to hear people complain about programmatic being too complicated. They say that they are essentially helpless to figure out how to […]

  • The Many Shades Of In-Housing

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. Belinda will present “EA’s Programmatic Arts” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26.    Of all the trends happening in programmatic, “in-housing” seems to […]

  • Data For Data’s Sake

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. Belinda will present “EA’s Programmatic Arts” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26.    Having been in the biddable/programmatic space for more than 10 […]

  • A Call For Brands: Time To Get into The Weeds On Media

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. Belinda will present “EA’s Programmatic Arts” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26.    I’ve spent a lot of time talking to brands that […]

  • Going In-House: The Talent Challenge

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. As anyone who is hiring media buyers knows, there is a talent shortage in the industry. Brands trying to build in-house teams are often faced […]

  • Solving The ‘Law Of Ad Blocking’

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is by Tony Ralph, director of advertising technology at Netflix. Every time I open a mobile web browser I’m reminded of Wirth’s law. Wirth’s law postulates that software becomes slower more quickly than hardware grows faster. Mobile hardware advances […]

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  • With Its Eye On Consumers, Health Care Attempts A Shift From Volume To Value

    “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 Mayur Gupta, senior vice president and head of digital at Healthgrades.   I used to hear that health care was behind other industries when it comes to digital technology adoption […]

  • Publishers: Stop Refusing Our Money

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view.  Today’s column is by Mike Zeman, director of global programmatic marketing at Netflix. Imagine you’ve walked into a convenience store to buy some milk. The cashier says, “That’ll be $5.” You hand him a $5 bill, only to be told, “I’m […]

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