Lindsay Rowntree
Head of Content
Articles by Lindsay
How Should Digital Ad Effectiveness Be Measured?
IAB UK recently launched National Anti Click-Through Rate Day to highlight the industry’s over reliance on vanity metrics for measuring digital ad effectiveness. This lighthearted message underlines a more serious need for advertisers to move away from CTR, which only provides a very narrow view on campaign success. To support this message, the IAB released a Measurement Toolkit to help support advertisers as they transition to more robust effectiveness metrics. The IAB Measurement Toolkit consolidates current best practices and provides guidance [...]
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Out-stream Is an Ad Exchange with a Spin on It: Q&A with Kai Henniges, Video Intelligence
Video is the holy grail of sight, sound, and motion; but what impact does ad format have on its ability to engage users? ExchangeWire speaks with Kai Henniges (pictured below), CEO and co-founder, Video Intelligence, who explains why video advertising must be in a contextual environment to create trust between users and publishers. ExchangeWire: What is the importance of contextual video and creating the best video environment for the end user? Kai Henniges: The digital media space needs to learn from past [...]
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DMPs & CDPs Are Not Meant to Replace One Another: Q&A with Umberto Torrielli, SBDS
So, you’ve invested in a data technology platform. Now what? Speaking exclusively with ExchangeWire, Umberto Torrielli (pictured below), co-founder and managing partner, SBDS, explains the many business considerations for data technology investment, and why he and his partner founded a company to help from start to finish. ExchangeWire: Why did you create a consultancy focusing on data technology platforms? Umberto Torrielli: SBDS came from the realisation that there’s a clear skillset gap in the market around helping publishers, marketers, and technology companies [...]
The Next Gaming Giants: What We Can Learn from Recent Mobile Acquisitions
In the span of five years, mobile gaming has grown from the smallest segment of the gaming market to a USD$70bn (£61.6bn) industry. It’s unsurprising then, that the past couple of years have been huge for mobile gaming acquisitions, from Zynga buying Gram Games to Niantic adding VR-focused Seismic Games. In this piece, Simon Spaull (pictured below), MD EMEA, AppLovin, charts the most significant acquisitions in the mobile gaming space of late and what they signal for the future of the [...]
UK Advertising Benefits from a Virtuous Circle: Q&A with Fredrik Borestrom, IAA UK Chapter
Speaking exclusively with ExchangeWire, Fredrik Borestrom (pictured below), president of the IAA, UK chapter, dares to speak about the word most people in ad tech are purposely avoiding: Brexit. Borestrom also discusses diversity in the British advertising ecosystem, and encouraging homegrown talent. ExchangeWire: How do you think Brexit will impact the advertising industry in the short and long term? Fredrik Borestrom: Upon writing this, Brexit remains undefined – and, subsequently, so does its impact. Like every other sector, the advertising industry is [...]
A Fresh Take on Header Bidding Will Mark the Way Forward in 2019
Header bidding has provided a new opportunity for publishers to take control over their programmatic advertising. While for brands and agencies, it promised to make a new whole range of quality inventory options available via real-time bidding, writes Moti Tal (pictured below), co-founder and CTO, Simplaex, in this piece for ExchangeWire. For every extra lane we add to the RTB motorway, it seems there’s an accompanying pile up somewhere further down the road. So it proves with header bidding, where leaping [...]
How DTC Brands Are Using Programmatic for Business Growth
DTC brands are usually digital-first in their nature and have ambitious growth targets – this means they need to acquire customers at speed and the best way to do this is through marketing, writes Lloyd Greenfield (pictured below), client partner at The Programmatic Advisory, in this piece exclusive to ExchangeWire. Given the importance of marketing for their growth, DTC brands typically start with running paid search and paid social marketing activity in-house from an early stage. These platforms offer them [...]
Saying ‘A.I Do’ to Artificial Intelligence in Advertising
AI is infiltrating everything we do, even if we aren’t aware of it. And it’s no different in digital advertising. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Cheryl Guzman Ng (pictured below), APAC head of marketing and innovation, Xaxis, explains how marketers can look to adopt it in their marketing operations. For advertisers, the objective of a media buying strategy is simple but challenging: to reach the right audience with the right message, at the right time, in the right context, and the [...]
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Cleaning Up the Supply Chain Will Remain a Focus: Q&A with Jody Shilliday, Adform
New to The Wires 2018, the Ad Tech Rising Star award celebrates the unsung heroes within the ad tech industry. We speak with this year’s winner, Jody Shilliday (pictured below), head of advertising solutions at Adform, on why digital advertising is such an exciting field and the key challenges that lie ahead for the industry. ExchangeWire: Your role at Adform sees you responsible for the global ad serving, programmatic, creative, and publisher products at Adform. What is so exciting about this [...]
Shaping the Future of Local TV Advertising in 2019
With a new year comes new media opportunities in local markets: certainly, data will continue to dominate local TV advertising this year, as marketers use tech and analytics to target consumers with content that aligns with their needs and interests. And station groups will also take an omnichannel approach to marketing in parallel to streamlining industry operations. But what else is on the horizon? In this piece exclusively for ExchangeWire, Shereta Williams (pictured below), president, Videa, shares four predictions that [...]
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