All parties with a stake in the Asia-Pacific ad tech industry are responsible for ensuring programmatic delivers the value it promises and ad content quality must remain the focus for marketers. Together, this would ensure consumer experience is optimal and [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: IAB AU champions ads.txt adoption; Singapore millennials say ads don't 'get' them; MCN offers consolidated customer view across [...]

Much has been made of ad tech’s new strategic buyers. With the demise of traditional buyers, like AOL and Yahoo, and the departure of Google, new players have filled the M&A vacuum. The most prolific of these new buyers have [...]

Marketers have been so focused on optimising customer experience across digital channels that they have neglected the need to be equally responsive on physical touchpoints. A survey by CMO Council revealed that 78% of marketers believed they could respond or [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Alibaba to grow share of global ads; AU content agency acquires retail comms specialist; Singapore socio-political site [...]

In her second week at Avocet, Sarah Slimani (pictured below) – a Durham graduate moving from a career in biotech to advertising technology – was asked to write an honest account of her first impressions of the programmatic space, which reads [...]

In the face of the Google and Facebook duopoly, and squeezed margins, which models will survive? If you believe every ad tech naysayer in the industry, you will think ad tech is on its last legs. Many people see Facebook and [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Marketing analytics firm snaps up Japanese influencer platform; VMO lights up 'smart' billboard in AU; Publicis sees [...]

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 [...]

The discussion around the convergence of ad tech and martech shows no sign of abating, with analyst firm Forrester Research releasing a report last month dedicated to the subject: Kick Start Your AdTech/MarTech Convergence. In addition to providing advice for [...]