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  • IPA Bellwether Report Q4 2019: Return to Marketing Budget Growth

    The IPA Bellwether Q4 2019 Report, released today 15th January 2020, has revealed a 4% overall increase in marketing budgets, the first such increase since the first quarter of the year. Growth is anticipated to accelerate through 2020 as the [...]

  • Predictions 2020: Privacy

    As the decade draws to a close, ExchangeWire has invited thought leaders from across the industry to share their predictions and insight into what 2020 will hold for the ad tech and martech industries. Under the spotlight today is privacy. [...]

  • UK Advertising to Reach £24bn in 2020; Ogury Raises USD$50m (£38m)

    In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: UK advertising revenue to reach £24bn in 2020; Tesco and McDonald’s become first brands to commit to IAB [...]

  • Drive-to-Store is Here to Stay

    Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Rose Shorter (pictured below), agency group head at S4M, discusses how spending in drive-to-store advertising is set to rise in the next four years, as well as the host of benefits associated with embracing the medium. Let [...]

  • Digital Growth Amid Uncertainty: The IAB Ad Spend and IPA Bellwether Reports

    This week saw the release of two key industry reports, the Q3 2019 IPA Bellwether and the IAB & PwC Adspend Update H1 2019. Here ExchangeWire details the key findings of the studies, and receives expert insight from across the [...]

  • Silver Screen, Silver Lining: What the Wider Ad Industry Can Learn From the Cinema Experience

    Serving effective ads which simultaneously enhance viewer experience is a perennial goal of the advertising industry, however in tough times it is often the bottom line that receives all the focus, shuffling consumers down the pecking order. This in turn [...]

  • Bidstack Announces Acquisition of Ad Fraud Prevention Company Pubguard

    Bidstack Group (LSE:BIDS), the in-game advertising group, has announced the acquisition of ad fraud prevention platform Pubguard. The move is designed to protect all of Bidstack’s gaming inventory by removing fraudulent ads and will help guarantee advertisers a brand safe [...]

  • The Italian Programmatic & Martech Industry in 2019: Predictions & Reflections

    Advertising: a truly global industry. Whether this is at a form comprising of hastily-scrawled posters attached to telephone poles, or the totality of links within the complex programmatic supply chain serving countless ads across the world each second. Despite this, [...]

  • OpenX expands into Australia; Essence wins integrated media agency of record duties for ZEE5 India

    In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia Pacific region – in this edition: OpenX expands into Australia; Essence wins integrated media agency of record duties for ZEE5 India; Verizon Media [...]

  • AA/WARC Q1 2019: UK Ad Spend Hits £6bn

    UK ad spend increased by 4.2% year on year to hit £6.0bn in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, released today Tuesday 30th July. Growth for the overall year is forecast to reach [...]