Every 28th of January, the technology sector marks Data Privacy Day, a Council of Europe initiative that aims to promote and protect consumer rights online. Now in its 13th year, Data Privacy Day has become a global initiative. In order to take stock of how far we’ve come and what is left to achieve in terms of data privacy, ExchangeWire and mobile ad tech company Ogury spoke with leading figures from both UK brands and agencies, shining a light on [...]

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In this exclusive article for ExchangeWire, Jamie Toward (pictured below), head of data, UK & NL, Teads, discusses how data is perhaps less like oil, as it is commonly compared with, and instead is more analogous to wine. “Data is the new oil” is an analogy that’s gained traction since it was first used by The Economist in an article published in 2017. Since then many people have sought to prove exactly why data isn’t the new oil, focusing on flaws [...]

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Writing for ExchangeWire, Niklas Bakos (pictured below), CEO and founder of Adverty, discusses how in-app and in-game advertising have changed from recent years, and how these changes are combining with pressures in web advertising to make these channels particularly enticing for brand advertisers. Advertisers, being advertisers, have tried to work their brands into online games and apps ever since there have been games and apps worth working their way into. But whereas in-game ads were once mostly technological experiments or clever [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: IAB UK announces Gold Standard 2.0; Integral Ad Science releases Pulse Report 2020; DoubleVerify announces Programmatic Platform Certification Program; MGI acquires Verve assets; Adverty partners with MADFINGER Games. IAB UK announces Gold Standard 2.0 A new iteration of IAB UK’s Gold Standard will be launched later this year, bolstering the certification process and incorporating steps to address privacy concerns within [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Global announces launch of DAX across outdoor and audio; Finecast’s addressable TV services verified by PwC; Infosum partners with zeotap; Broadsign and TPS announce partnership. Global announces launch of DAX across outdoor and audio Global, the Media and Entertainment group, has announced that DAX, its digital audio advertising product, will be available to digital outdoor advertisers from February 2020. Global, [...]

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Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Andrew Morsy (pictured below), managing director international, Peer39, takes a creative look at how content, rather than audience, is set to become the point of focus for the digital advertising industry. If digital advertising was a blockbuster movie, its hero would be the audience, around which all action is centred. As a result, an entire industry has grown up around the targeting of ads based on consumers’ personal information and internet habits. But as the ecosystem’s storyline unfolds, [...]

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