“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 Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Some of us may not have been surprised by last week’s announcement that Google is delaying the deprecation of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. As we look ahead to life after third-party cookies, publishers and advertisers alike are on the hunt for solutions. To date, most of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Advertising plays a vital role on the web. Ads fund publishers in creating great content for all consumers to freely access. In return, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Tick tock goes the clock. (Not that TikTok.) The countdown to the end of cookies is on. And with that, third-party data will […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. While the cookie bonfire rages on for the next two years, there’s another spark igniting change in the ecosystem: supply-chain transparency. It may […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. The impending privacy cloud looms large. With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in place and the California Consumer Privacy Act soon to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. There has been a lot of noise about the upcoming updates to Google’s auction dynamics, including the practical details of what’s changing and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Two years ago, I looked in my crystal ball and envisioned a future where all media would run programmatically. Today, we have all […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. It’s been a year, give or take, since the dominoes started to fall in the direction of first-price auctions. Our industry wasn’t fully […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Imagine if every impression could find its perfectly matched buyer. Demand-side platforms (DSPs) are the ultimate gatekeepers for screening inventory, but publishers only […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. In ad tech, we either spend a lot of time hunting for the next big thing or kvetching about what’s broken in our […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. CafeMedia, operator of CafeMom, MamasLatinas and other sites, is a technology-first media company. It employs seven developers who do nothing but manage pre-bid implementations, upgrade bidders, monitor code on-page and so on. “The delivery of programmatic media is what we do,” says EVP for Strategy […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. While ad tech has seen a constant stream of innovation over the last few years, one thing has largely stayed the same: private […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Supply-path optimization (SPO), or, as I like to call it, supply pathing, might not sound like the sexiest topic, but is suddenly the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Fact: Nearly every advertiser wants video and there isn’t enough supply to go around. In light of that, why are publishers struggling to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Nearly two years after header bidding exploded onto the programmatic scene, we are seeing a race to embrace the next big thing: server-side […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Two years ago, I saw the future of programmatic not as a budget channel, but rather a conduit through which all media changed […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Header bidding is here to stay. So it’s time we stop talking about what the technology does for publishers and start talking about […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Buyers talk about the need for access and transparency. Sellers talk about the power of header bidding technology. While the language may be […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. As header bidding takes off, the advantages of private marketplaces (PMPs) are multiplying. With a PMP-first approach, advertisers lean toward maximizing PMP volume […]
