I'm a TV guy, and proud of it. I enjoy horizontally watching a slew of my favorite professionally produced TV programs, surfing the electronic program guide, and neurotically scanning my personal video recordings selections to ascertain future storage capacity. I eagerly await the ubiquitous deployment of advanced TV applications in the televisual realm: addressability (with interactive extensions), telescoping, intuitive navigation (encompassing all content, all the time, on-demand) and TV programmatic pragmatism coupled with more meaningful, manageable "big data." That's me. So here is my question to you: Why the continued TV and digital video divide, though agencies religiously profess the …

Kleiner Perkins's Mary Meeker recently released her annual Internet trends report, and of the many emerging behaviors described, there's one that brands have already taken note of: cross-device consumption. We expect that this behavior will only continue to grow and in doing so, will open up a whole world of interesting possibilities for advertisers. In fact, many have already attempted to leverage those with holistic new cross-channel campaigns. It sounds great, but so far things aren't turning out as planned.

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a colleague from one of the major audience data companies about the future of measuring TV. With all the big data we have at our fingertips, we will soon use the same measurement tools for TV brand campaigns that we use for digital. "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it," is one of the undisputed business mantras from Peter Drucker. My colleague was concerned that the current and upcoming generation of marketers and CMOs have been so thoroughly schooled in this belief that they will tend to manage TV brand …

Programmatic buying is getting a good deal of attention -- and recent articles have speculated on leveraging infrastructure created for digital programmatic to accelerate the rise of programmatic in television. While this may be easier said than done, several programmatic vendors are investing heavily in building the infrastructure that will be required to deliver a programmatic TV capability. Things are progressing quickly and the results are encouraging.

Welcome to a world of multiple exchanges, complex algorithms, confusing jargon, aggressive middlemen, and tuned-out clients. Sound familiar? Well, it's not ad tech. It's Wall Street. The eerie parallels between today's Wall Street and the increasingly automated world of advertising are unmistakable in Michael Lewis' new book, "Flash Boys." (Lewis has shed indirect light on our industry before with his 2003 book "Moneyball," which became the the hero narrative for quants.)

Is "remnant" a good thing or a bad thing? How could the same word to describe undesirable ad inventory be interpreted both ways simultaneously? Why does it still cast a long shadow on TV, but has disappeared into the sunset of the online advertising lexicon? Let's flip back a few pages into the media archives and find out.