How media companies can step up their ad sales game

LINK: www.inma.org ➚ | Posted by: Caroline O'Donovan | June 11, 2013

A Swedish media consultant Otto Sjöberg writes for INMA about Amazon’s quick rise up the rungs of the ad sales business. CEO Jeff Bezos is apparently hyper-attuned to the value of the data Amazon owns about shoppers.

“Key to further growth will be the plethora of consumer purchasing data Amazon gathers through its core business, retail sales. Ad-selling competitors such as Google and Facebook lack such data — and therefore its targeting potential,” eMarketer concludes.

The key takeaway from the story of Amazon is for news media companies to be experts at gathering not only information but data, and to use that data to venture into new revenue streams.

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