Ad Verification
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Publisher Co-Ops – The View From the Buy-Side
With large-scale publishers increasingly convinced of the benefits of pooling their resources to trade media via premium exchanges and therefore better compete with the likes of Google, ExchangeWire examines some of the issues around transparency and this model.
With the recent emergence that publishers in the UK are poised to introduce a collective advertising exchange into Europe’s biggest programmatic market, ExchangeWire examined the model’s increasing popularity among premium publishers across the continent. In this second instalment of [...]
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Who to Watch in 2015
ExchangeWire Research’s head of analysis Rebecca Muir draws up a definitive list of which companies will make waves in the ad tech and martech sectors, as well as the market dynamics that will lead to their increasing influence in 2015, focusing on: Ecommerce; Transparency; Big Data, and mobile.
Following on from ExchangeWire Research’s recent article Where the Money will Flow in 2015?, which summarised ad tech and martech predictions for 2015, this article draws from the numerous lists of the [...]
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What Does the Future Hold for ATDs?
The rise of adtech has resulted in massive disruption of long-held dynamics within the advertising sector, not least because of debates around transparency, and its potential for resulting in ‘disintermediation’. ExchangeWire examines the debate that quietly bubbles under the surface of ad tech.
Programmatic ad spend increased 200% in Europe last year prompted by marketers’ desire to spend their ad budgets more effectively, making it the hottest property in advertising, according to the latest AdForm report.
The history [...]
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Where the Money will Flow in 2015
January wouldn’t be January without the deluge of predictions which come forth from all corners of the online advertising boxing ring. Here, ExchangeWire Research’s Rebecca Muir gives her summary of the most popular themes which have emerged in some of this year’s predictions.
Programmatic trading boomed in 2014, the IAB UK predicted that 47% of display advertising was traded programmatically in 2014, nearly doubling from 28% the previous year. This explosive growth has been fuelled by several factors, including: education; [...]
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ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the top stories in the European ad tech scene, and in this week’s edition: WPP poised for Dunhumby swoop; ExchangeWire Research survey now live; IPONWEB appoints first GM for BidSwitch; Questions over Google’s viewability pledges, and Yahoo rumoured to unveil new mobile offering.
WPP to buy Dunhumby?
WPP is waiting in the wings to purchase data operations business Dunhumby from under-fire retail giant Tesco, according to reports, as the world’s largest advertising holding group continues to [...]
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AppNexus CTO On The Fight Against Ad Fraud
AppNexus will take to the stage at next month’s ATS Paris to discuss issues around transparency, here Geir Magnusson, CTO, SVP of engineering at AppNexus, shares insights on the wildly varying accounts of the extent of the problem, plus potential technology solutions with the event’s media partner Ad-Exchange.fr.
There is no shortage of studies about online ad fraud, with widely varying accounts of the extent of the problem. For instance, YuMe claims it blocks millions of domains [...]
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What Advertisers Really Think About Transparency
The ad tech sector is arguably the hottest part of the marketing industry right now with the word ‘programmatic’ on almost every C-level marketer’s lips when talking about high-level strategy. Undoubtedly this is good news for the programmatic advertising industry, but it does bring with it an inherent need to improve transparency.
In this piece Bob Wootton, ISBA, director of media & advertising (below, right), explains to ExchangeWire readers
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Domain Identity Theft Is The Fraudsters’ Latest Ponzi Scheme
Jalal Nasir, Pixalate, CEO, and online fraud expert, shines a light on the latest loopholes exploited by nefarious elements of the digital economy, including naming some of the worst offenders, and urges the media industry at large to better protect itself from the problem.
“Hi, I’m PremiumDomain.com…Would you like to buy some inventory?”
Warning to all advertisers and premium publishers: This is an all-too common call you may be receiving, but don’t believe what you’re hearing is legit!
In a world as [...]
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WFA Report Gives Guidance On How To Work With Programmatic Service Providers
The WFA released an excellent programmatic guide this week. The report, written by Mikko Kotila (a notable programmatic trader and ATS speaker), focuses on best practices for brands working with agencies, trading desks and ad tech vendors in the programmatic space.
Despite the headline grabbing numbers of brands abandoning trading desks, this report is more about best practice for brands looking to put spend into programmatic.
The report is [...]
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Why Agencies & Intermederies Must Evolve With The Shift To Closed Ad Ecosystems And Marketing Automation
Walled gardens. Big media companies love walled gardens. Amazon, which was asked to speak at ATS London but predictably declined, has been aggressively pushing its data-driven bidder to most of the big trading desks globally.
The new self-serve solution will be enthusiastically used by the agencies, as they look to leverage all that Amazon first party data. The catch here though is that inventory and data within the Amazon domain can only be accessed through its own bidder – no outside integrations [...]
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