Lindsay Rowntree
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Facebook Moots iOS 14 Audience Network Shutdown; Mightyhive Merges with Brightblue
In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Facebook moots iOS 14 Audience Network shutdown; Mightyhive merges with Brightblue; and WPP revenue falls by 15.1%. Facebook moots iOS 14 Audience Network shutdown Facebook has announced a series of measures in response to the upcoming iOS 14 update on Apple devices, revealing that the social media giant will no longer collect the identifier for advertisers (IDFA) across its app portfolio, citing a lack of certainty and stability around the changes. The California-based firm has also [...]
Mintegral Accused of Fraud; Oracle's TikTok Bid; Snowflake Files for IPO
In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Mintegral accused of click attribution fraud; Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic influencing Oracle TikTok bid; and Snowflake files for IPO. Mintegral accused of click attribution fraud Beijing-based ad network Mintegral has been accused of committing ad attribution fraud, along with unlawfully monitoring user activity, by security firm Snyk. As originally reported in Forbes, the offending SDK was purportedly injected into over 1,200 apps with over 300 million installs across Apple’s App store. According to Synk, the SDK [...]
Video, Audio & Gaming Are Thriving: Q&A with Anthony Farley, GroupM
There are many different courses for agencies to navigate at the moment, and before the pandemic ripped out the goal posts and threw them into the ocean, some of biggest challenges and focuses were increased regulation, privacy requirements, and identity, as well as the evolution of the service layer. ExchangeWire speaks with Anthony Farley (pictured below), Agency Group Director, GroupM, about how the pandemic hasn’t removed those challenges, only altered them, and how agencies are working with their clients and [...]
International Women's Day: The Long & Winding Road to Gender Diversity
With International Women’s Day on 8 March, ExchangeWire asked leading women in the industry if they feel we are any closer to gender diversity, the positive initiatives taking place, and what work still needs to be done. Twenty five brilliant women share their views on their experiences as women in the industry, as well as the steps they believe need to be taken, to encourage more workplace and industry gender diversity; from workplace flexibility, training for women in leadership positions, [...]
Bringing Programmatic to Out-of-Home: Q&A with Oliver Deane, Global
Following the launch of DAX across out-of-home (OOH) and audio, ExchangeWire speaks to Oliver Deane (pictured below), director of commercial digital at Global, to discuss the implications of the move for both channels, including how programmatic should be accurately defined in the context of OOH. ExchangeWire: What does the launch of DAX into digital outdoor mean for buyers? Oliver Deane: Essentially, DAX broadens the inventory pool for those buying outdoor. I went to an OOH industry event at the back-end of last [...]
Are You Ready for the Trends That Will Shape the New Decade?
2019’s coming to a close, and with it ends a decade of innovation. In 2010, the iPhone outsold Blackberry for the first time, changing the way people accessed the internet and revolutionising the advertising industry. Since then we’ve seen Facebook become more than a social network, as it established its dominance on the advertising industry alongside Google. We’ve seen changes in the way personal data is used, with the GDPR and CCPA setting the rules for how advertisers engage with [...]
3 Ways Collaboration Will Shape The Future of Advertising
While the growing number of consumer touch points presents an opportunity to engage with viewers in ways we were never able to before, it also brings new levels of uncertainty to the advertising industry. How can we effectively engage viewers across various devices? Is there a consistent way to measure success, and what exactly does success look like? How can we justify our ever-growing media spend? Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Danny Clayman, VP, Northern Europe, Xandr (pictured below) answers these [...]
Fostering Diversity in an Inherently Undiverse Industry
The 10th year of ATS London will take place on 9th September and, as is the case every year, it’s been an exciting, yet challenging time crafting our agenda and finding experts to join us on stage. The biggest challenge: diversity. Holding a mirror up to the industry Ad tech is far from diverse. Google’s tech positions are 74.3% male, and 74.1% of leadership positions are also held by men. Similarly, at Facebook, 77% of tech roles are held by men, with [...]
The Promise of Programmatic: Q&A with Steve Wing, Rubicon Project
In this Q&A, Steve Wing (pictured below), managing director, UK, Ireland and Nordics at Rubicon Project, industry veteran, and runner up for Ad Tech Personality of the Year 2018, speaks with ExchangeWire about his role, his hopes for the industry, and whether programmatic is fulfilling its potential. ExchangeWire: Has the ‘promise of programmatic’ played out the way you expected? Steve Wing: I guess that promise will be different for different stakeholders, but broadly speaking, programmatic advertising used to be associated with low [...]
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Automation, its Impact on People & our Collective Responsibility
Automation in advertising has scaled so quickly over the past decade, that in many cases, it has caused a disconnnect between the automation specialists and their leaders. In this exclusive piece for ExchangeWire, Jonas Jaanimagi (pictured below), technology lead, IAB Australia explains why this can cause significant strain, and how the launch of their new Mentorship Program aims to address this. Advertising businesses of all types have been experiencing rampant change over the past decade or so, much of it operationally [...]
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