Joanna O'Connell

Principal Analyst serving Marketing Leadership PROFESSIONALS

Joanna serves Marketing Leadership Professionals and covers display marketing, ad targeting, optimization, and measurement. She focuses specifically on marketer and vendor best practices in using display and measurement technologies and tactics, as well as how to optimize results over time.

Joanna joined Forrester in July 2010.

Previous Work Experience

Joanna has more than 10 years of experience in the marketing leadership industry. She started at Avenue A in New York and was a founding member of Razorfish's ATOM Systems agency trading desk. Most recently, she ran brand relations for the Audience on Demand practice at VivaKi, helping advertising clients target and optimize broad-reaching interactive campaigns. Joanna has been a frequent panelist at industry events including OMMA AdNets and BlueKai, TARGUSInfo, and Nielsen data summits.


Education

Joanna graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in psychology. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with departmental and general honors.

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  • Joanna O'Connell
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Future Of Digital Media Buying

    Vision: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Media buying technology and operations are undergoing a dramatic transformation — marketers are replacing traditional relationship-marketing tactics and opaque ad networks with programmatic...

    • Downloads: 2045
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:2012 Interactive Marketing Predictions

    Marketing Gets Customized For Social, Local, Mobile, Multiscreen Consumers

    Social is not a channel, and mobile goes beyond the smartphone. In 2012, marketers will get this concept and realize that their customer is truly "always on." The customer of 2012 expects customized,...

    • Downloads: 1671
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Digital Media Buying Forecast, 2012 To 2017

    Landscape: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Interactive display marketing investment will grow at a compound annual rate of 17% in the United States between 2012 and 2017, while Europe's will grow slightly more slowly. Double-digit growth...

    • Downloads: 1125
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Audience Targeting Imperative

    Digital marketers must embrace audience targeting to efficiently and effectively connect with their target consumers. But navigating the audience targeting vendor landscape — one increasingly...

    • Downloads: 1047
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Demand-Side Platforms, Q4 2011

    MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu Vie For Top Honors

    In Forrester's 48-criteria evaluation of demand-side platform (DSP) vendors, we found that MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu led the pack because of the breadth of their media access, the depth and acumen...

    • Downloads: 997
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The DMP Is The Audience Intelligence Engine For Interactive Marketers

    Segmentation has always served as a core underpinning of traditional marketing. The benefits are myriad and well understood by those in the offline world. The very recent advent of the data...

    • Downloads: 952
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Upgrading Your Interactive Measurement Strategy

    Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority

    Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...

    • Downloads: 961
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Remarketing Done Right

    Maximize Display Effectiveness By Optimizing Your Approach

    New upstarts like Dotomi and FetchBack have recently invigorated interest in the value of remarketing, but it's a tried-and-true display tactic that's been around for years. Marketers can...

    • Downloads: 643
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:2013 Interactive Marketing Predictions

    The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing

    In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...

    • Downloads: 606
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Align Search And Display For Better Results

    Interactive marketers should integrate their search and display media. These channels have a natural affinity: Many marketers already use both channels and user experiences of search and display now...

    • Downloads: 603
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    Report:Making Sense Of The Digital Media Buying Platform Landscape

    The days of the fun — but not very efficient — three-martini lunch are waning. A new breed of technology-centric tools and processes, such as those found in demand-side platforms (DSPs),...

    • Downloads: 563
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Building A Better Digital Media Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

    • Downloads: 444
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    Report:Create An Audience-Obsessed Digital Media Buying Practice

    Executive Overview: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Digital media buying is undergoing seismic change. Where there were once legions of junior staff managing relationship-based buys, there are now sophisticated real-time technologies. Participants...

    • Downloads: 372
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Selecting Digital Media Buying Partners

    How To Get The Right Mix Of Service And Performance

    Interactive marketers have more choices than ever when it comes to picking media buying partners. Once dominant, media buying agencies now face stiff competition from a whole host of new specialists...

    • Downloads: 396
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    Report:A Measurement Maturity Framework For Interactive Marketers

    Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...

    • Downloads: 355
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Online Advertising Data Compliance Matters

    Implement Self-Regulation For Behavioral Targeting To Protect Your Brand

    An industrywide effort is underway to implement self-regulation of targeted display ads to ease consumer and governmental privacy concerns. Clear compliance requirements have been outlined by the...

    • Downloads: 364
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Case Study: HP Deploys A DMP To Harness Audience Data

    Hewlett-Packard, a leading technology provider with a global footprint, saw an opportunity to significantly improve its digital marketing efforts by creating a universal framework for user-level data...

    • Downloads: 362
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Best Practices For Display Marketing

    Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

    • Downloads: 340
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    Report:Scale Success with Programmatic Multichannel Media Buying

    Continuous Improvement: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    This report of the digital media buying playbook will guide marketers to think beyond the possibilities of programmatic media management in display; take them down the path to embracing programmatic...

    • Downloads: 341
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How To Defuse Digital Marketing Privacy Concerns

    Stay Ahead Of Privacy Legislation By Creating A Value-For-Data Exchange

    Recent advances in audience targeting point to a digital marketing future that leverages consumer data to create personalized messaging and drive higher conversions. However, this potential is...

    • Downloads: 363
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:When And How To Run A DSP Head-To-Head Test

    Follow These Simple Rules To Set Yourself Up For Success

    Digital media buyers are hungry for tools that make buying, management, and optimization simpler. Enter demand-side platforms (DSPs). DSPs improve the complex media buying technology stack by...

    • Downloads: 280
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Measurement Is A Digital Media Buyer's Best Friend

    Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

    • Downloads: 291
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    Report:The Digital Media Buying Maturity Framework

    Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

    • Downloads: 276
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    Report:Campaign Verification Pulls Back The Curtain On Display

    Many online marketers are paralyzed by the murky unknown of the online display market. In a recent survey, we found that 51% say they are likely to simply continue buying the online media that they...

    • Downloads: 248
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Select Partners Who Support Your Goals

    Tools And Technology: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    The linchpins of every effective media buyer's practice are the partner and vendor relationships that allow the buyer to create truly valuable customer experiences. The technology ecosystem for...

    • Downloads: 196
 
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