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• Mobile Dominates Video Views Worldwide; Next Phase of SpotX-Smartclip Merger

  2 months ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Mobile Drives Video-Viewing Figures; Next Phase in SpotX & smartclip Merger; PulsePoint Buys Ad Vitality Lab; Taboola Partners with Bauer Media UK; and ClearChannel & Posterscope Integrate. Video Viewing Dominated by Mobile According to eMarketer’s first mobile digital video forecast, 2.38 billion people will watch streamed or downloaded video content in 2018. More than three-quarters (78.4%) of the total views are accessed via mobile [...]

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• A Lot of Education Needs to Be Done Around Quality: Q&A with Gorka Zarauz, CQO, Smart

  5 months ago News

  

  What is a ‘chief quality officer’ and why does ad tech need this new role? ExchangeWire speaks with Gorka Zarauz, recently promoted to the role of chief quality officer at Smart, about what his role entails and how the industry can achieve ‘quality’. ExchangeWire: You are one of the first people to get the title ‘chief quality officer’. Why is that title necessary, and what does it mean? Will we see more people with that title? Gorka Zarauz: It means that, at [...]

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• The Ad Server Started with Pixels & is Figuring Out People: Q&A with Victor Wong, CEO, Thunder

  5 months ago News

  

  What is a creative management platform and how could its increased implementation in marketer creative strategies force an evolution of the traditional ad server? ExchangeWire speaks exclusively with Victor Wong, CEO, Thunder, who explains that, ultimately, we have to remember it’s about delivering the best possible experience to the consumers interacting with your brands. ExchangeWire: What is a creative management platform (CMP) and how is it being used to personalise campaigns? Victor Wong: Creative management platforms enable brands to produce, personalise, and [...]

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• Cheetah Mobile Challenged by Diverse Advertiser Needs

  6 months ago News

  

  Ranked the world’s third-largest non-game app developer, Cheetah Mobile faces significant challenges in meeting the different needs of a diverse advertiser clientele. In Asia-Pacific, specifically, advertisers have yet to catch up – in terms of media investments – with consumers who are rapidly moving towards mobile devices, according to Josh Ong (pictured below), Cheetah Mobile’s director of global marketing and communications. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Ong explains how the Chinese app developer is enhancing its programmatic and technology stack to better [...]

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• The Goal of Owning Full-Stack Ad Decisioning: Q&A with Rajeev Goel, CEO, PubMatic

  7 months ago News

  

  With transparency, arguably, being one of the hottest topics in the advertising field in 2017, PubMatic is standing firm on transparency needing to go deeper than clarity around fees and the source of inventory. As highlighted with the company’s ‘Let’s Be Clear’ campaign, it lies in the value exchange and the perception of value in the programmatic ecosystem. ExchangeWire speaks with PubMatic’s co-founder and CEO, Rajeev Goel, about PubMatic’s journey through ad tech and the position it holds in an [...]

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• Is There Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

  1 year ago News

  

  Today (24 February) ad blocking company Shine, announced that they are rebranding as ‘Rainbow‘. Rainbow is described as “a consumer ad experience”, and the company states: “We are no longer selling ad blocking to mobile carriers, or ISPs.” In short, Rainbow is an ad verification company, and the verification criteria is not unique – Rainbow uses industry-defined standards. For advertisers and agencies, the process of Rainbow verification is the same as working with any other verification company: submit ads to Rainbow and [...]

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• Facebook Retires Atlas; INVIDI Acquired by AT&T, DISH & WPP

  1 year ago News

  

  ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Facebook shutters Atlas; INVIDI changes ownership; Programmatic audio ads by Adform; New publishers for Outbrain; Code of Conduct for German programmatic market; and Adsquare adds app-usage data. Facebook retires Atlas ad server Ad serving with Atlas is no more! Facebook have shuttered the Atlas ad server and instead want to refocus on campaign measurement. “We believe Atlas will have a greater impact and create [...]

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• Facebook Updates Metrics & Reporting; LiveRamp Buys Arbor and Circulate

  1 year ago News

  

  ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Facebook updates metrics and reporting; LiveRamp buys Arbor and Circulate; IAB and ISBA cooperate on mobile buying handbook; Snapchat IPO is coming; More lift with Rich Media; Spotify and WPP announce partnership; Widespace’s new ad platform; Protected Media’s anti-ad-fraud solution; and European viewable completion rates analysed by TubeMogul.  Facebook update on metrics and reporting Criticism on Facebook’s lack of transparency has prompted the company to [...]

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• Smartclip vermarktet für IP und G+J; ADITION, ADEX, Roq.ad Partnerschaft

  1 year ago News

  

  ExchangeWire bündelt die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Region DACH mit Schlaglicht-Interviews aus der deutschsprachigen Programmatic-Szene. Diese Woche: Smartclip übernimmt Outstream-Vermarktung für IP und G+J EMS; ADITION, ADEX und Roq.ad schließen Technologiepartnerschaft; AdDefend bringt Anti-Adblock-Technologie nach Österreich; Neuzugang bei OpenX Deutschland; und Fünf Fragen an Frederike Voss, orbyd. Smartclip vermarktet für IP und G+J EMS Smartclip reißt noch mehr Outstream-Vermarktung an sich. Die RTL-Tochter konnte jetzt eine Partnerschaft mit IP Deutschland und der Gruner+Jahr Media Sales-Abteilung abschließen: Ab Januar 2017 vermarktet Smartclip für [...]

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• EU Data Protection Working Group Vs WhatsApp; Adyoulike & Trade Desk Partner

  1 year ago News

  

  ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: EU data protection takes on Facebook-WhatsApp; Native advertising partnership between Adyoulike and The Trade Desk; Weve and AppNexus; Series A Funding for Convertr; and partnership between GumGum and Plista. EU data protection vs Facebook-WhatsApp Not only the German data protection authorities, also the EU data protection officers are now scrutinising the exchanging of data between Facebook and WhatsApp. The so-called Article 29 Data Protection Group have written an [...]

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