Working in ad sales, a lot of what I hear these days is “data, data, data.” I am not dismissing it. Data is, and will be, important to the media business. Big data can give us valuable insights into audiences, programming, media planning, attribution and more. But I worry that in our eagerness to embrace data -- especially data-targeted advertising -- we’re forgetting the power of content.
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