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AdTech & Measurement.

Programmatic, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), attribution, embeddings, and the data infrastructure beneath modern advertising — from DMPs and OpenRTB to NNN and Transformer-based measurement.

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  1. 01
    Feb 2024

    The advertising industry stands on the cusp of its greatest transformation yet.

    AR/VR, Web3, regulation, and generational power shifts. The five-year outlook for the ad industry.

  2. 02
    Dec 2023

    Is Apple harvesting adtech data?

    The strategic read on App Tracking Transparency — Apple's privacy posture as competitive intelligence.

  3. 03
    Dec 2023

    Meta Trends - 2024 (TL;DR)

    Ten transformative trends — shoppable TV, retail media × streaming, data-driven decisioning — for 2024 planning.

  4. 04
    Nov 2023

    Data clean rooms and zero-party data: Powerful solutions for a cookie-less future

    The post-cookie playbook — zero-party data plus clean rooms as the durable identity stack.

  5. 05
    Mar 2023

    How clean rooms will power the future of digital marketing in 2025?

    Secure multi-party data environments — the substrate for targeting, attribution, and personalization without raw PII.

  6. 06
    Mar 2023

    How Web3, NFT and Blockchain will shape the future of digital marketing?

    Decentralization, authenticity, transparency, and privacy — how Web3 primitives reshape brand-consumer trust.

  7. 07
    Mar 2023

    5P Framework to understand the Future of Digital Marketing

    Purpose, People, Platform, Process, Performance — Paul Roetzer's five-P framework applied to programmatic.

  8. 08
    Feb 2023

    How brands should utilise zero party data (ZPD) as part of marketing strategy in 2023 and beyond?

    How proactively-shared customer data fuels personalization, product roadmap, and durable trust.

  9. 09
    Jan 2022

    The Future of Addressability = $100B

    When you run a quick keyword search of "addressability" on LinkedIn titles and get hundreds of roles, it is a clear indication that the time has come to write something provocative and radical as $100B+ on the subject. This narrative is...00B+ of post-cookie open-web spend. The four addressability paths and which ones survive 2023.00B+ of post-cookie open-web spend. The four addressability paths and which ones survive 2023.00B+ of post-cookie open-web spend. The four addressability paths and which ones survive 2023.

  10. 10
    Aug 2021

    Marketing is Dead, Long live the Marketing

    The four pillars of the marketing loop — Targeting, Delivery, Measurement, Optimization — rebuilt for the post-cookie era.

  11. 11
    May 2016

    5 Data Points every Advertiser should look at...

    Five practical tips — DMPs, third-party data, segmentation, look-alikes, data-driven action — for profitable consumer relationships.

  12. 12
    Feb 2016

    Data Portability and Application Interoperability – what is all the fuss about?

    Decoding two over-used terms — and why the DMP is the central nervous system of an interoperable mar-tech stack.

  13. 13
    Dec 2015

    The DMP and Programmatic

    How DMPs power PMP packages, custom audiences, private data marketplaces, and the four scenarios that matter.

  14. 14
    Sep 2015

    Data is the New Currency to power Attribution

    Why the DMP is the foundation for multi-touch attribution and the connective tissue across marketing channels.

  15. 15
    Aug 2015

    Debunking cross-device myth

    Deterministic vs probabilistic matching. The eight questions to ask every cross-device vendor before signing.