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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You don’t need to be a devoted games industry observer to have noticed something of the recent rise of eSports. Organised competitive gaming has been around along time, of course. eSports’ nascent form was forged in the earliest arcade gaming tournaments in the 1970s, where players competed to win a patch declaring their prowess; presumably to be sewn onto an oversized distressed denim jacket. By the 1990s the notion of a ‘pro-gamer’ making money from prize winnings was established, but even then [...]

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In light of the GDPR coming into force in Europe on 25 May, 2018, ‘context’ is swiftly becoming the mot du jour, as many advertisers and publishers look for new ways to effectively reach their target audiences. ExchangeWire speaks with Benoit Sanchez, team leader, data division, Smart; Charlotte Fouquet, COO, Zebestof; and Céline Craipeau, product and solutions specialist, Tradelab, about the power of contextual targeting, and the increasing popularity of semantics.   ExchangeWire: What value does contextual targeting bring over behavioural [...]

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