In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Twitter refuses to dismiss Egon Durban from its board, defying its shareholders vote; a company filing from SoftBank reveals the company slashed execs' pay after its Vision Fund dropped ¥3.5tn (£21.7bn); and rapid grocery delivery [...]

As part of Digiseg’s goal to help advertisers and publishers get to the cookieless future faster, it has launched cookie and ID free audiences in Japan and South Korea.    With these two countries, Digiseg’s cookieless audience data is now available in six APAC countries: Hong Kong, Singapore, [...]

Leading video advertising enablement platform, Intelligent Video Solutions (iVS) today (22 September) announced its latest round of fundraising. The Pre-Series B round, led by Tin Men Capital as well as notable investors such as Vulpes, Kickstart Ventures and SG Innovate, [...]

Hivestack, the global ad tech leader in programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) advertising, today announced the appointment of Ichiro Jinnai as president, Hivestack Japan. Jinnai will be responsible for driving the regional strategy, direction and expansion of the Hivestack [...]

Novatiq, the only privacy-first identity solution to leverage first-party network operator intelligence, has today announced a significant commercial partnership with Supership Holdings. Supership is Japan’s leader in data-driven digital advertising. The deal will see the UK start-up and the Japanese digital [...]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, today announced the appointment of Takeshi Yamaguchi as country manager, Japan to accelerate and lead the company’s growth locally.  Takeshi Yamaguchi joined IAS in 2015 to help expand its operations [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: AT&T are reportedly planning to build a 'super SVOD' by combining WarnerMedia with Discovery; the Australian government promise AUD $4.2m to ACMA to help them enforce the News Media Bargaining Code; and the government of [...]

Integral Ad Science (Headquarter: NY, USA, CEO: Lisa Utzschneider, Tokyo Office: Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, today launched a Manga infobook titled “Understanding Ad Verification with Manga!”  Although awareness of ad verification as a solution [...]

Zefr, the leading data company for brand suitability in video, announce a strategic partnership with one of Japan's largest corporations, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui") to expand its video brand suitability solution to Japan. Zefr will work in collaboration with [...]

Following the detailed discussions at the recent MadTech Japan event, ExchangeWire speaks to Alfonso Asensio, Regional Director - Japan, Oracle Advertising, to discuss alternative forms of marketing and the role of technology providers in JAPAC markets as we enter the [...]