UBS Investment Bank Global Media and Communications Conference

We are looking forward to attending UBS Investment Bank’s Media Conference on Monday. We’ll be joining other industry players such as contextWeb, Coremetrics, Magna Global and comScore to discuss Media Measurement and Next Generation Advertising at 1:30 pm in NY.

Great line-up of for the conference so far with CEO's from the Internet & Interactive Entertainment side including Carol Bartz (Yahoo!), John Donahoe (eBay) and John Riccitiello (Electronic Arts), Samit Arora (Glam.com), Wayne Gattinella (WebMD); Tim Armstrong (AOL); Michael Rubin (GSI Commerce); and Strauss Zelnick (chairman TakeTwo). The Media side includes -- David Zaslav (Discovery), Jeff Bewkes (Time Warner), Bob Iger (Disney), Philippe Dauman (Viacom), Les Moonves (CBS), Chase Carey (News Corp) and Ken Lowe (Scripts) and more.

If you’re attending – feel free to send us a note to set up some time to catch up with us there:

 

Where to Find Us in November

We hope you'll join us for some lively conversation in November. Be sure to find us afterward if you're interested to talk more!

OMMA Adnets: Vetting the Data: Which Targeting Points Get You Closest to Your Audience and Your Goals?
With: Rapp Digital, Wharton Interactive Media Initiative, and BlueKai

Tuesday, November 3rd
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Ad:tech NY: Defining the New Media Currency - How to Bring Traditional Media Metrics Online, or Should We?
With: Microsoft, Nielsen, comScore, Experian Hitwise, and ThingEquity LLC

Wednesday, November 4th
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Ad:tech NY: The Science of Targeting: Turning Data into Scalable, Actionable Insights
With: Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, and Omnicom Media Group Digital

Thursday, November 5th
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IAB AD Operations Summit: Yours, Mine, Ours? Who Controls the Data & Why It Matters
With: Google, Yahoo!, and ValueClick Media

Monday, November 16th
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Advertising Week Recap: Coca-Cola, Verizon, Initiative Media Talk "Audience"

On Monday of last week, we hosted a lively discussion around the topic of reaching the right audience online with Coca-Cola's Carol Kruse, Verizon's Suzy Deering, Initiative's Jeff Graham and our moderator, Wenda Harris Millard of Medialink.

We had a packed house but in case you missed it, here are the highlights:

Wenda Harris Millard, President of Medialink
Jeff Graham, EVP, Worldwide Director of Performance, Initiative
Suzy Deering, Executive Director Sponsorships, Verizon
Carol Kruse, VP, Global Interactive Marketing, The Coca-Cola Company
Todd Teresi, Chief Revenue Officer, Quantcast

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Where to Find Us at Advertising Week

Valuing Audiences in Real-Time: How Do Brand Advertisers Migrate to the New Model?

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Join us and industry leader Wenda Harris Millard for a spirited conversation about how audience definition and delivery change in a digital environment with panelists:

Tim Mapes, Senior VP, Marketing for Delta
Suzy Deering, Executive Director Sponsorships for Verizon
Carol Kruse, VP, Global Interactive Marketing for The Coca-Cola Company

Opening & Industry Landscape Overview:
Todd Teresi — Chief Revenue Officer, Quantcast

Monday, September 21st at 10 am at The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, New York, NY.

Quantcast @ Internet Week

Next week on Tuesday, June 2nd, Quantcast CEO, Konrad Feldman will speak at the Digital Media Summit as part of Internet Week. The conference, organized by GCA Savvian, will bring together top leaders to discuss sell-side topics of the digital media industry. The panel will be moderated by Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the IAB, and will also include BlueKai, ContextWeb and Media6degrees. Internet Week New York is a week-long festival of events saluting New York's thriving Internet industry and the many talented companies, organizations, and innovators creating the future of online media. It is presented by IADAS & The Mayor's Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting.

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Quantcast at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank Media Conferences

Over the next week, Quantcast executives will participate in two key investment bank media conferences to reinforce the company's vision about dynamic data driven marketing in digital media environments. Todd Teresi, Quantcast's Chief Revenue Officer, will participate in the Online Advertising panel at Goldman Sachs' Technology and Internet conference at the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco on Thursday February 26^th, at 2pm. And on Monday March 2^nd  at 2:55pm, Quantcast co-founder and CEO Konrad Feldman will participate in a New Media panel at Deutsche Bank's Media & Technology Conference at The Breakers, in Palm Beach, FL. If you happen to be attending either event, please make a point to join us.

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Advertising Week Event Recap - It's Just the Beginning...

Last Thursday, Quantcast hosted an Advertising Week event at Bloomberg’s headquarters, bringing together a diverse and established group of executives from NBC Universal, and top digital agencies Starcom MediaVest Group, Avenue A/Razorfish, and Mediaedge:cia. The two-hour event focused on how the move to digital distribution is driving industry change, and what agencies and publishers are doing to generate increased advertiser value in an era of ever-improving audience data and accountability. Over 200 people attended the event.

Plenty of interesting ground was covered. Konrad Feldman, Quantcast co-founder and CEO, began with Quantcast’s vision of audience activation and addressability. NBC Universal’s SVP of Digital Media, Peter Naylor, followed sharing first-of-its-kind daily and sport-specific insights from NBCU’s Quantcast-enabled Beijing Olympics research (part of the company’s broader initiatives). And the event closed with industry veteran Mark McLaughlin moderating an agency panel that focused on the buy-side: how agencies are dealing with challenges of audience measurement, implementation of targeting, and opportunities of addressability.

We’ll soon have video up from the event, which we’ll share here on our site. In the meantime, we’ve pulled a few select quotes from Thursday’s discussion:

“The promise is right on the horizon. We need to have the right people that are ready to really put data at the heart of what they do, as well as the right systems to bring that together on behalf of our clients to deliver a competitive advantage.”

- Lee Doyle, CEO, North America, Mediaedge:cia

“The good news in all of this change is everyone I talk to is still focused on the same fundamentals: the need to put the right message in front of the right person at the right time. If that’s the objective, then this kind of data is a godsend. We are simply getting into a new environment where the ability to target with a specific message at the individual level is finally starting to mature. One of the biggest adjustments we have as media executives is to get used to the idea that it’s not about the advertising unit anymore. We’re going back down to that granular thing: the advertising impression.”

- Mark McLaughlin, President, McLaughlin Strategy

“We have more data than we know what we know what to do with. I argue that it fundamentally all comes down to an understanding of the consumer. When we use all this data to understand the consumer, you can then build the website, craft the digital experience, build the creative, you can plan, buy, measure and optimize the media all with the common framework. We’re really taking all this data and translating it into people. What people want, and what people want to do. We found that when you can do that, it can be a powerful thing. But I will be frank: It is a real challenge to get people in the industry to begin to think that way to do things like data-driven creative or data-driven user experience.

- Andy Fisher, Analytics Director, Avenue A/Razorfish

 

“I like to use the analogy of a college quad. They lay down all the cement paths between the academic buildings, but by Spring you see paths worn between the grass. So the sidewalks represent where they thought people were going to walk and the paths through the grass represent where people actually walk. So with this data, we were able to understand not only where they were actually walking, i.e. where they were surfing, but we were able to understand who they were. That’s really important, it brings us insights and our advertisers value where we can pull back some layers and really help them understand what the audiences were up to and its going to help us change how we think about our business.”

- Peter Naylor, SVP, NBC Universal, discussing Beijing measurement experiment, in which his team leveraged Quantcast

As Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman mentioned in his introduction, we’re very much at the beginning of witnessing the impact of the addressable media economy. We’re excited to be innovating in this environment, and look forward to more discussions as we move forward. Stay-tuned for event video and continue to share thoughts and questions with us.