How To Tell If An AI Vendor Will Still Matter In Two Years
Almost everything in AI feels big. But are you looking at the next Gangnam Style or the birth of a new industry? Here’s how to assess whether an AI vendor is likely to matter in two years.
Almost everything in AI feels big. But are you looking at the next Gangnam Style or the birth of a new industry? Here’s how to assess whether an AI vendor is likely to matter in two years.
Former Goodway Group CEO Jay Friedman shares hot takes on everything from curation (“absurd”) to brand safety (“botched”).
AdExchanger spoke to a number of programmatic leaders who testified in the DOJ’s Google antitrust trial last September.
Industry experts agree that the bot activity analyzed in the latest Adalytics report is among the easiest type of invalid traffic to spot.
An Adalytics report released Friday details numerous instances of brands serving ads to known bots that appear on the IAB Tech Lab’s International Spiders and Bots list and TAG’s Data Center IP List.
WPP shares dipped to a four-year low on after posting its 2024 earnings results. Plus: How brands are courting virality.
Ad buyers agree that Nielsen’s decision to pivot from panel-only ratings is a step in the right direction for TV ad measurement. But some also suggest it may be too late for Nielsen to recover the ground it ceded to competitors.
Nielsen told ad buyers that it plans to drop panel-only ratings later this year. The decision signals an inflection point in media measurement that publishers and buyers have both been waiting for.
Day Two of the Google antitrust trial in Alexandria, Virginia on Tuesday was just as intensely focused on the intricacies of ad tech as on Day One.
Why does MFA continue to thrive? MFA monetization benefits everyone in the ad tech ecosystem that collects a revenue share. That includes both SSPs and DSPs.
We asked the experts: Which channels are you leaning into — and where are you pulling back – during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the rest of the holiday season?
Goodway Group has chosen Jay Friedman as CEO. Friedman assumes the chief executive position after more than 16 years at the company, most recently as president. Former CEO David Wolk moves into the role of executive chairman.
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Three government lawsuits have now been filed against Google in the span of two months with the two most recent being filed by states’ […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. The known/unknown grid made famous by former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld might as well have been about the state of internet privacy […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. In the cola wars, it was Coke vs. Pepsi. In the battle of the coasts, it’s New York vs. Los Angeles. Rap? Tupac vs. […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. As an industry, we’ve spent the last several years talking about the duopoly, specifically how Google and Facebook receive and control around 60% of […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. During this unprecedented time, it’s important to keep an eye on the future. Where will we be in a few weeks and months, following […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Change only occurs when there is sufficient dissatisfaction with the status quo. For the last 20 years, the number of events that have dissatisfied publishers has been building, […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Some kids go straight from high school to Harvard. Others take a gap year to “find themselves,” tinker in their friend’s garage or simply […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Buying connected TV ad inventory is fragmented at best and complex at its worst. Channels we are familiar with from the corded TV days – TLC, HGTV, Bravo […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Amazon bought Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) tool last week. If you’re not a Sizmek customer, this may not seem like a big deal. And […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Accenture Interactive’s recent purchase of creative agency Droga5 presents a fundamental question of whether consulting and creative can be combined effectively. Can a creative […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Want to start a social movement? There are plenty of resources online to help you; TED even offers a quick, four-step guide to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. The goal of every marketer is to spend the least amount of money possible to achieve the best possible results – to spend right to the point where […]
“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 Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. For media buyers today, ad tech platforms can be bucketed into two categories: the must-haves and nice-to-haves. For many, Google, Facebook and Amazon […]
Believe it or not, many marketers still use last-click attribution. Goodway Group President Jay Friedman has had enough of it. So, he’s pushing the indie programmatic platform to tie all campaign measurement to lift-based metrics. “By requiring a lift-based approach, we can avoid vanity metrics,” he said. “It’s changed the dynamic of our relationships with […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. In the past two weeks, I’ve been to two supply-side platform (SSP) summits and spoken in depth to more than a dozen publishers. I’ve learned a lot. In short, […]
“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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. As the attention on Mark Zuckerberg’s recent testimonies dies down, the conversation is shifting instead to what should have been addressed. From an […]
“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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Imagine it’s 2016, and a marketer is programmatically targeting EU consumers with behavioral data and buying those impressions on a second-price auction. When […]
“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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Already, 2018 is shaping up to be a very interesting year. Our industry is getting close to making real progress on some of […]