The Pivot Back to the Ad-Funded Model
It seems like every day there is a media or tech company launching a streaming service. This week was Disney’s turn. At its glitzy media launch event, Disney CEO Bob Iger and senior execs outlined the Disney+ dream. The company announced new shows and back-catalogue content that will be available on the Disney+ service. Iger also prepared the market for significant cash burn over the coming years, as the company looks to onboard 90 million customers over the next three-to-five [...]
IPA Bellwether Report Q1 2019: Rising Budgets & Negative Prospects
Marketing budgets have been upwardly revised to highest level in over a year, however forecasts and financial prospects are increasingly negative, reveals the Q1 2019 IPA Bellwether Report, released Wednesday 17 April. Report Highlights Total marketing budgets upwardly revised to +8.7%, their highest rise since Q3 2017 Rising uncertainty leading to increased efforts to protect brands Forecasts for the year ahead at their most subdued since 2009 Financial prospects at the company level turn more negative Ad spend growth to be modest in 2019, with improvement [...]
Nearly Half of Global Travel Marketers Are Not Planning to Advertise on Snapchat This Year
Snapchat burst onto the scene earlier in the decade, and has remained an independent social media platform, despite several competitors being absorbed by Facebook or fizzling out into obscurity. Yet, as discussed below, it remains a lesser-picked platform by travel marketers, despite increasing digital ad spending in the industry. Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Chris Blaine (pictured below), VP EMEA at Sojern discusses the reasons why travel marketers are unconvinced by Snapchat’s offering, eschewing it in favour of alternative platforms. It’s been [...]
GDC Day Two Roundup: Google Enters Gaming Market with Stadia
Google has made its move on gaming with the announcement of streaming platform Stadia. The news came on the second day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; and it surely stands as one of the most significant gaming reveals in the industry’s history. Such a major player moving in with such an ambitious platform could radically impact the broad ecosystem of the industry, the makeup of audiences playing games, and the way the medium is consumed and designed. However, Stadia’s [...]
UK Advertising Delivers 21st Consecutive Quarter of Growth in Strongest Q3 Since 2015; Facebook Ad Placements Down 15% as Instagram Grows
UK Advertising Delivers 21st Consecutive Quarter of Growth in Strongest Q3 Since 2015; Facebook Ad Placements Down 15% as Instagram Grows; and Bloomberg Media Launches TRIGR TV. UK Advertising Delivers 21st Consecutive Quarter of Growth in Strongest Q3 Since 2015 UK ad spend rose 5.1% year-on-year to reach £5.6bn in Q3 2018, marking the 21st consecutive quarter of market growth and the industry’s strongest third quarter of the year since 2015. This record investment highlighted in Monday’s (28 January) Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure [...]
Q&A: Reality Clash & the Arrival of Blockchain-Powered AR
Reality Clash is an in-development mobile AR shooter that integrates blockchain, cryptocurrencies, dynamic in-game advertising, and geo-mapping technology into the gameplay experience it offers. Yes… there are a lot of tech buzzwords in that opening line. We’d only need to throw in AI and VR and it might seem like a parody of contemporary marketing parlance. But in truth, there’s often a meaningful reality hidden somewhere behind the hype of headline-grabbing tech trends. And it just so happens that Reality Clash [...]
'Non-Intrusive' Programmatic Advertising: The Future of AR & VR Monetisation?
This week UK monetisation outfit Admix revealed that it had secured an impressive USD$2.1m (£1.63m) in funding to further develop its AR and VR advertising platform. As reported by Tech.EU, Admix was only founded in 2017, with a focus on allowing developers to place advertisements programatically that sit contextually inside content. A simple, hypothetical example would a be a VR game set in a sprawling city. Admix’s platform could allow a developer to assure that programmatic ads appeared only as billboards on [...]
IPA Bellwether Report Shows Weakest Growth in 3 Years
Total marketing budgets were revised higher during the third quarter of 2018, extending the current period of growth to six years, but to the weakest extent in almost three years. This is according to the Q3 IPA Bellwether Report, published last week (17 October). Report highlights – Cost pressures and growing uncertainty weigh on budget – Internet marketing spending plans continue to provide key support to growth – Most downbeat assessment on industry-wide financial prospects since Q4 2011 – Muted ad-spend growth forecasts for 2018 [...]
Why Hispanics Matter: The Challenges of Targeting to U.S. Hispanics
Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, this is a time to recognise the influence of Hispanic Americans in the country. This collaborative piece features three Hispanic-market and ad tech experts from Adsmovil to talk on the importance and challenges of targeting ad campaigns to U.S. Hispanics. Yes, Hispanics matter! The United States is the second country in the world with the most Spanish speakers, just after Mexico. As a matter of fact, the [...]
European Commission Writes ‘Code of Practice’ to Combat Fake News; AT&T Launches New Advertising Company Xandr
In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the EMEA region – and in this edition: European Commission Writes ‘Code of Practice’ to Combat Fake News; AT&T Launches New Advertising Company Xandr; Facebook’s Clashes with Instagram Prompted Co-Founders’ Departure; Will Chinese Censorship Cause Internet to Split in Two? VPNs Keep Providing Access to Free Internet in China; and Adobe Unveils Virtual Analyst & New Audio Analytics Capabilities in Adobe Analytics. European Commission Writes ‘Code of Practice’ [...]
