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Mobile Soars in Eastern Europe; AppNexus Acquired by AT&T
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Eastern Europe Is Biggest Growth Market for Mobile Advertising; AppNexus Acquired by AT&T; Eyeo Launches AI-Powered Ad Block Detector; Ligatus Has Entered UK Market; Merkle Expands to MENA; and Sublime Skinz Launches Programmatic Guaranteed. Eastern Europe Is Biggest Growth Market for Mobile Advertising The IAB’s AdEx Benchmark 2017 Report forecasts the value of the mobile ad market at €48bn (£42bn) this year. Mobile continues [...]
IAB Releases GDPR Framework; OpenX Removes Video Ad Format
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: IAB Releases GDPR Framework: Call for Feedback; OpenX Bans 300×250 Video; Improve Digital Offers First-Price Auction Option; New Custom Bid Algorithms at Amobee; and Rubicon Project Opens Its Exchange for Third-Party DSPs. IAB Releases GDPR Framework: Call for Feedback With the release of the draft technical specifications for its GDPR Transparency & Consent Framework, the IAB is now asking industry participants for feedback on their attempts at [...]
Mobile Dominates Video Views Worldwide; Next Phase of SpotX-Smartclip Merger
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Mobile Drives Video-Viewing Figures; Next Phase in SpotX & smartclip Merger; PulsePoint Buys Ad Vitality Lab; Taboola Partners with Bauer Media UK; and ClearChannel & Posterscope Integrate. Video Viewing Dominated by Mobile According to eMarketer’s first mobile digital video forecast, 2.38 billion people will watch streamed or downloaded video content in 2018. More than three-quarters (78.4%) of the total views are accessed via mobile [...]
Programmatic Direct Proves Relationships Are Still at the Heart of Advertising
More control, more transparency – more ROI. Programmatic direct has everything going for itself. In this op-ed for ExchangeWire, Richard Kidd (pictured below), VP, head of business development, OpenX, looks at the reason for programmatic direct’s meteoric rise and its potential for the future. Programmatic is changing digital advertising once again; and this time it’s taking the industry back to a more personal form of trading. Last year, ad spend for programmatic direct grew to match investment in real-time bidding (RTB); [...]
A Powerful Ad Buying Tool: Maximising Programmatic Direct Performance
Speed or certainty – when programmatic first emerged, buyers had to choose between the two. They could opt for real-time bidding (RTB) and large-scale efficiency, or traditional direct deals and guarantees of inventory. It’s not surprising that the arrival of programmatic direct, which combines the efficiencies of programmatic with the certainty of buying from approved partners, has been enthusiastically embraced by buyers and publishers alike. In fact, OpenX has seen their programmatic direct revenue alone rise by 500% since 2016. One [...]
Programmatic Direct is Taking Over
Programmatic display advertising was tipped to generate ad spends of £2.5bn in the UK this year. Compared to 2013, the market will have grown by nearly 500%. Similarly aggressive trends are predicted pretty much all over the world. The single biggest driver of this lately has been programmatic direct. In the latest chapter of the serialisation of The Programmatic Handbook, published by the IAB UB, Alexander Reinhold, head of solutions, Sociomantic Labs, takes a closer look why. An abbreviated [...]
Facebook Updates Metrics & Reporting; LiveRamp Buys Arbor and Circulate
ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Facebook updates metrics and reporting; LiveRamp buys Arbor and Circulate; IAB and ISBA cooperate on mobile buying handbook; Snapchat IPO is coming; More lift with Rich Media; Spotify and WPP announce partnership; Widespace’s new ad platform; Protected Media’s anti-ad-fraud solution; and European viewable completion rates analysed by TubeMogul. Facebook update on metrics and reporting Criticism on Facebook’s lack of transparency has prompted the company to [...]
Publishers on Programmatic in Finland
According to statistics from earlier this year, programmatic advertising is really taking off in Finland. Looking at ad sales from December 2015, the Association of Finnish Advertisers found that 75% of advertisers engaged in programmatic buying of ads. Sounds like good news for Finnish publishers, who have eventually come together to form an alliance to expand their reach and take control of programmatic transactions: Sanoma Corporation, Alma Media Corporation, Otavamedia, Aller Media Oy, A-lehdet Oy, MTV Oy, KSF Media, Kaleva365 [...]
Algorithms Can Teach Us About Ourselves: The Power of Automation
3 November, 2016 marks the third year of the Xaxies Awards in the UK – the annual awards held by Xaxis to celebrate the best of programmatic technology and advertisers’ campaigns. This year, Simone Giertz, 25-year-old inventor, robotics enthusiast, and YouTube star from Stockholm, Sweden, who has been featured in Mashable, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and in the New Scientist, has been invited to judge the ‘Most Creative Use of Data’ category. Ahead of this, [...]
AT&T Buys Time Warner; Criteo Launch Predictive Search
ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: AT&T acquire Time Warner; Predictive search by Criteo; Support for DigiTrust; MediaMath integrat with AdX; DAX Listener ID; Vertical video by Teads; Visual IQ buys Refined Labs; and Neustar focuses on European expansion. AT&T buy Time Warner for USD$85bn Massive take-over in the media sector: telecommunications provider AT&T buy Time Warner, securing content that includes the the famous Hollywood studio, as well as news station [...]
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