Josh Chasin is a poet -- and he knows it -- with this twist on a seasonal classic:" 'Twas the week before Christmas, when alone in my house/ I was finishing shopping, with a click of the mouse;/Then I cleared out my browser cache, cookies deleted,/ In hopes of nefarious snooping, defeated."

Sometimes I worry that we digital cognoscenti can get so lost in the magic and elegance of all these awesome algorithms and Big Data assets, that we forget to take a step back and ponder the bigger picture: the actual people out there on the other side of all those myriad screens.

Ad fraud is a hot topic for marketers right now. But there's another type of fraud they should be concerned about: attribution fraud.

TV has drastically evolved over the past 15 years now that viewers have more choices than ever, with hundreds of channels offered by cable providers, online video, streaming services, on-demand viewing and DVRs - all delivered via connected devices like smart TVs, tablets and smartphones. TV advertisers have been buying media the same way for over 50 years, but now they have to make sense of the new landscape. That means TV advertising measurement needs to catch up to the new landscape, too.

Historically, most marketers have assumed that only companies with significant marketing budgets could afford moving to an advanced measurement approach without taking a hit to their bottom line. But that's not necessarily the case if companies are considering the bigger picture.

ComScore, known in the industry as the expert in digital measurement, which is taking an aggressive cross-platform position with its acquisition of Rentrak, also recently announced a measurement deal with Viacom and partnership with Adobe. I sat down with Andrew Lipsman, comScore's VP of marketing insights, to get his perspective on all of these recent advancements in conjunction with comScore's efforts at perfecting the calculation of true digital ad performance.

Sometimes I worry that we digital cognoscenti can get so lost in the magic and elegance of all these awesome algorithms and Big Data assets, that we forget to take a step back and ponder the bigger picture: the actual people out there on the other side of all those myriad screens.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has just released a Primer on Improving Viewability for Publishers to fully explain the intricate and iterative processes of measurement and improving viewability.

A tiny 3% of CMOs are enthusing over social. Is it because the channel is burning marketing budget -- but reporting in vague communications terms?

The media business typically accepts the usual spending windfall during election years and rarely looks at how political candidate and advocacy advertising works. Without understanding the richness of potential voters' relationships with candidates and issues, as well as their go-to sources of information, it is challenging to go beyond standard ad placements.