Let’s Wake Up: IP Infringement is Everyone’s Problem
In this exclusive article for ExchangeWire, Peter Szyszko (pictured below), CEO and founder of White Bullet Solutions Limited, discusses why perceptions on IP need to be shifted in response to the danger it risks to brand marketers, ad tech providers, and the user. Film fans might remember a famously queasy scene in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon where our hero takes turns with Prince Barin, heir to the throne of Mongo, to plunge an arm through a dark hole in [...]
Creativity in a World of Data: How Can We Use Our Minds to Open Up New Opportunities?
In a climate of ever-increasing regulatory pressure, and with the impending future of a cookie-less world, it is important that we in the digital advertising industry review our relationship with data and evaluate how we can improve on our understanding of this deep and complicated resource. The introduction of GDPR and the ICO’s recent focus on data compliance has made the processing of data in digital advertising an extremely important and increasingly complex operation. As we move away from the intricacies [...]
GumGum Announces USD$22m Funding Round; Verizon Media Partners with VIOOH
In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: GumGum announces USD$22m (£17m) funding round; Verizon Media partners with VIOOH; Rakuten launches Rakuten Advertising; Yieldbird to invest €1.5m (£1.2m) in ADXo solution; and Trade House Media integrates with The Media Trust. GumGum announces USD$22m (£17m) funding round GumGum, Inc., an artificial intelligence company specialising in solutions for advertising and media, announced today that leading global marketing executive Lisa Licht [...]
ExchangeWire's Rachel Smith on Project Rearc, Premier League Steaming, and MWC
On this week’s episode of The MadTech Podcast, ExchangeWire’s Ciaran O’Kane and Lindsay Rowntree are joined by the returning Rachel Smith, to discuss the latest news in ad tech and martech. On this week’s episode: – The IAB has unveiled Project Rearc, a collaborative project attempting to rebuild the digital advertising industry to be fully aligned to the list of consumers, businesses and government. Will the project gain the necessary traction throughout the industry, including the likes of Google and Facebook, to [...]
How to Prepare for a Life Without Cookies
Ahead of ATS Stockholm 2020, Amit Kotecha (pictured below), marketing director at Permutive, has penned this exclusive article for ExchangeWire discussing how publishers, advertisers, and agencies, can prepare for a post-cookie landscape, and how transitioning to first-party data strategies can ensure a consumer-centric and profitable future for the advertising industry. It’s official: even the naysayers who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, imagine life without them now know it – the age of the cookie is (almost) over. The final confirmation of their demise [...]
Love is... Finding the Right Partnerships
In this exclusive article for ExchangeWire, Seth Whitehead (pictured below), customer success manager, Impact, discusses the importance of partnerships between brands and affiliates, and how automation can be used to strengthen such relationships. We all know that we are stronger together and as it is Valentine’s Day tomorrow, partnerships of every type will be front of mind. So it’s a good time to look at the power that partnerships are having on the relationship between brands and their affiliates. Why [...]
How to Reinvent Digital Advertising After the Death of the Cookie
Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Richard Foster (pictured below), CRO of InfoSum, discusses how the digital advertising ecosystem can rebuild after the tectonic shift in the viability of the third-party cookie. Proving that its privacy mission isn’t just talk, Google has taken its first major step towards blocking third-party cookies. In its latest policy update, Chrome 80 will stop supporting cross-site sharing, unless cookies are flagged in line with the SameSite internet standard. On the surface, this move is about online security and [...]
Identity in the Post-ITP Landscape: Q&A with Kelly Jacobson Collins, Unruly
Ahead of the panel discussion on solving the identity challenge at ATS Stockholm 2020, Kelly Jacobson Collins (pictured below), global product compliance director at Unruly, discusses what opportunities have been opened up post-ITP, and how providers can collaborate with publishers for the benefit of the industry. What opportunities have been opened up in the privacy-compliant post-ITP landscape, and how are independent providers outside of GAFA set to capitalise on these? It would be very easy to dwell on the negative side of [...]
Humble PIE: Time for Independent Ad Tech to Embrace Independent Values
In this exclusive article written for ExchangeWire, Paul Evans (pictured below), B2B strategy and marketing consultant, discusses why the moment is right for the independent advertising ecosystem to embrace its own independence, champion relevance, and collectively re-imagine the future makeup of programmatic. The meaning of independence “2020 will see a re-think of programmatic”. The first of Ciaran O’Kane’s predictions for the new decade “had me at hello”, and now that we’re just a month in to 2020, this statement could not have [...]
Broadsign Partners with AdMobilize; TVSquared Launches Always-On Attribution Platform
In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Broadsign partners with AdMobilize; TVSquared launches always-on attribution platform; 64% increase in mobile adblocking; PubMatic releases video monetisation trends report; and IPA releases commercial media habits study. Broadsign partners with AdMobilize AdMobilize, a world-leading audience intelligence company powering DOOH networks with real time, fully-anonymous AI, and Broadsign, a leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing technology platform, have announced a partnership to [...]
