The Media CTO Innovation Wish List
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Digiday

The following are select quotes pulled from [the original piece](https://digiday.com/media/the-media-cto-innovation-wish-list/).

Everybody has a wish list. Including chief technology officers.

Last week, we asked some of the media world’s leading CTOs about [the biggest tech challenges they face](https://digiday.com/publishers/what-keeps-media-ctos-up-at-night/). In a little flip of the question, we followed up by asking them what tech innovation are they secretly hoping for.

The answers range from improved analytics to connected TV and from monetizing content without using banners or display ads to having a standardized browser.

**Brent Turner, CTO, MIT Technology Review**  
Analytics. Specifically, we need innovation around how we handle the aggregation of data and attribute that data to business results. While these are the same challenges facing marketers, media companies face the amplified problem of distributing our content across a highly fragmented world of devices, platforms and partners. There has been great innovation around reporting (especially [real-time](http://chartbeat.com/publishing/) [publisher-focus tools](http://parsely.com/)), but we do not have a centralized way to view our customer/audience touchpoints and understand the scope of our funnels. For example, we syndicate our content on [NewsCred](http://controlpanel.newscred.com/public/demo/master-source-list/) and [Mashable](http://mashable.com/publishers/technologyreview/), have an outpost on [Google Currents](http://www.technologyreview.com/connect/#mobile), run multiple [localized/multi-lingual versions](http://www.technologyreview.com/editions) of our site, and on and on. So then, how many people have really read a story we published? How many of those people go down our purchasing funnel and subscribe to [our magazine](http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/)? That is a huge, complicated problem to solve but one that will become increasingly needed as we publish in even more fragmented ways.

Posted December 20, 2012  
by [Digiday](https://digiday.com/media/the-media-cto-innovation-wish-list/)

[**Continue reading the full story on Digiday.**](https://digiday.com/media/the-media-cto-innovation-wish-list/)