A real change is at hand when it comes to understanding mobile audiences, and we’re only really beginning to understand the effect that mobile devices are having on consumer buying habits. This is what Forrester recently named “The Mobile Mind [...]

The consumer journey is no longer a single pathway from awareness through consideration to conversion. In this piece, Ben Sidebottom, director, solution architecture, Visual IQ (pictured) discusses how modern-day consumers draw information about brands from a greater number of sources than ever before, [...]

An insufficient ad budget for a vast region, inadequate support from industry players, and a media buying system that has yet to resolve key issues its predecessor also had failed to address. These are the main challenges facing Starwood Hotels [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Marketers drowning in whirlpool of data; BuzzFeed inks joint venture with Yahoo Japan; APAC mobile users most [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Self-serve Instagram campaigns roll out in AU; China online ad spend climbs 42%; Malaysia's Axiata buys out [...]

Private marketplaces are fuelling programmatic media buying and this preference for dedicated, defined inventory trading is increasingly apparent in the Asia-Pacific region. According to SpotXchange, more than 40% of impressions sold through its programmatic platform were traded through private marketplaces; [...]

No one can deny that ad tech has transformed the way brands conduct media buying. Gone are the days of sales calls and signed IOs. Today's automated world sees media transactions happening in milliseconds across a variety of devices and [...]

Rocket Fuel, yesterday (August 5), reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. Rocket Fuel posted 30% growth in revenue. In comparison, two days ago, Criteo reported a 64% increase in revenue. Is there really more money to be [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Effective ad metrics sorely lacking in Singapore; Zeotap raises Series A for global expansion, Indian centre; China's [...]

Most brands in Asia are simply taking campaign methodologies for traditional media, and slapping them onto mobile platforms, without first assessing new possibilities the latter can offer. This results in much inefficiency that otherwise can be improved with the deployment [...]