Screens have become omnipresent in the everyday lives of most modern consumers, turning mobile into a vast arena in which advertisers can find their audiences. However, as with any channel, mobile comes with its own challenges – with users often switching between several devices, and tighter regulation around targeting, advertisers must find a way to reach their audiences across devices in a compliant and transparent way. Mark Williams (pictured below), director EMEA at PubMatic, writes exclusively for ExchangeWire about the [...]

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As leads continue to avoid physical meetings and use online tools to interact with brands, sales organisations will need to adapt their processes to take advantage of the data they are collecting. Fabien Cros (pictured below), data consulting director at AI and data-driven consulting firm Artefact, explains how they can succeed.  In April 2020, 3.9 billion people were in lockdown across 90 countries. Even as quarantine measures are scaled back, lead generation activities and sales pipelines are coming under immense pressure. [...]

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Whilst businesses continue to battle against the COVID-19 onslaught, the need for greater addressability and transparency has become more prominent than ever. With concerns surrounding how advertisers use consumer data pre-dating the current crisis, how is the industry responding to the call for a healthier and more accountable ecosystem? We spoke to Erica Schmidt (pictured below), global CEO of Matterkind, about IPG’s newest division, and how it hopes to help transform the industry.How did Matterkind come about?    We acquired Acxiom in [...]

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Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Andrew Morsy (pictured below), managing director international, Peer39, takes a creative look at how content, rather than audience, is set to become the point of focus for the digital advertising industry. If digital advertising was a blockbuster movie, its hero would be the audience, around which all action is centred. As a result, an entire industry has grown up around the targeting of ads based on consumers’ personal information and internet habits. But as the ecosystem’s storyline unfolds, [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: DoubleVerify acquires Ad-Juster; Rubicon Project announces LiveRamp integration; IPA supports ISBA Origin; AudienceProject launches AudienceHub; and Innovid expanding in Europe. DoubleVerify acquires Ad-Juster DoubleVerify, a leading independent platform for digital media measurement and analytics, has announced the acquisition of Ad-Juster, a SaaS-based reporting and analytics platform for digital publishers. Ad-Juster services deliver the data transparency and insights publishers use to [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia Pacific region – in this edition: 62 percent of consumers report a better experience with online ads than a year ago; 4C launches solution to optimise ad campaigns and measure business outcomes more effectively; Equifax DDM expands partnership with audience tech platform into US. 62 percent of consumers report a better experience with online ads than a year ago dataxu, a leading global software provider [...]

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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 [...]

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ExchangeWire has been doing ‘proper’ European events for over ten years. All our events are done predominantly through the native language of the country in which we host events: French, Spanish, Swedish, or German. I have even given two French monologues to an audience of over 500 French men and women. It must have been laughable to hear me blunder my way through a ten-minute overview of the programmatic landscape. I thank those attendees for not walking out on both those [...]

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In this edition of Weekly Focus APAC: Mobile to Lead Online Retail in APAC Markets; APAC Firms Believe Customer Experience Still Not Integrated & Centralised; DBS Pilots QR ‘Angbaos’ for Chinese New Year; and Alibaba Expected to Grab 9.3% of Global Digital Ads. Mobile to Lead Online Retail in APAC Markets Mobile will lead online retail sales this year in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as in Australia and India next year, as Asia-Pacific consumers increasingly turn to e-wallets. Mobile-commerce already is [...]

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China may be the world’s biggest game market, with regard to user numbers and revenues, but for many months the nation’s Government had declined to approve a single new game. That all changed in recent days. As reported by the South China Morning Post, a new body, the State Administration of Radio and Television (SART), was formed in March 2018, with a view to monitoring media content intended for public consumption. From 28 March 2018, no new game titles were approved [...]

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