In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: the US government declares it’s ready to file a lawsuit against Google for anti-competitive behaviour; publisher Conde Nast has launched a new data offering for its advertising partners; Instagram announces House of Instagram in an effort to boost advertising on the platform; and McDonald’s replaces Omnicom Group’s OMD with Publicis Groupe to handle its Mainland China media planning.   US government prepared [...]

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In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Conde Nast launches a new data offering to help advertisers target their key audiences; SoftBank reports a loss of $9b, making last fiscal year their worst ever; and CTV sees ad impressions steady after Q1 fall.     Conde Nast launches new data offering to advertisers Publisher giant Conde Nast has released a new data offering to its advertiser partners. The new platform uses the first-party data of Conde Nast’s US and international users to divide its audience into [...]

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Ian Hocking (pictured below) VP, Digital at South China Morning Post, talks exclusively with ExchangeWire about what the demise of third-party cookies spells for the ad industry. The termination of third-party cookies will have a range of consequences for different parts of the industry. Which do you think will pose the greatest threat to digital advertising? There are many ad tech vendors that don’t have first-party relationships but require data at the core of their offering. Tightening privacy restrictions will mean it’s [...]

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In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: a study on programmatic carried out by the ISBA unearths flaws in supply chain; IPG’s Kinesso launches new solutions and advisory service, Matterkind; and Roku relaunches dataxu DSP as OneView.   ISBA programmatic study reveals flaws in supply chain A study released by the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) has revealed that 15% of advertising spend is currently disappearing into an “unknown delta”, and cannot be accounted for. The ISBA Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study was undertaken [...]

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Affinio, an augmented analytics company with the mission to democratise data science across all enterprises, has today [4 May 2020] announced a strategic partnership with cloud data platform Snowflake to provide AI-powered insights to joint customers on the Snowflake Data Marketplace in a privacy compliant, safe haven manner. Affinio’s ATON technology enables graph analytics on Snowflake’s data platform, empowering Snowflake customers with the ability to analyse and cluster massive sets of customer behavioural data and extract actionable insights. Behavioural data, such [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: the latest AA/WARC report forecasts a fall in UK ad spend; WPP braces itself as it sees Q1 revenues decline; Google sees its ad demand stabilise, sparking a spike in stock value; News Corp Australia partners with Flybuys to share first-party data; and Microsoft is rumoured to be looking to invest in Paytm. AA/WARC report forecasts ad spend to fall to [...]

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Essence, a global data and measurement-driven agency which is part of GroupM, today [29 April 2020] released a unique report on the future of advertising based on the predictions of experts across academia, business, marketing, technology, publishing, and advertising trade organisations around the world. The study evaluates the likelihood of 15 different scenarios occurring over the next decade and assesses the implications of each for the future of advertising. Each scenario tested explores the influence of a key dynamic or [...]

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Senior vice president of Merkle’s Data Solution in EMEA, Nick McCarthy (pictured below) writes exclusively for ExchangeWire about why businesses should not hesitate to embrace the newest version of the ICO Direct Marketing Code. Early March may feel like a different era, however in reality it was only just over a month ago that the ICO closed their consultation on its the draft of the revised Direct Marketing Code. The timeline for implementation remains slightly unclear and could even shift back further [...]

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Sebastian Gray (pictured below), co-founder and SVP at Dugout speaks exclusively to ExchangeWire about brand suitability, video advertising, and customer data protection. How can brand suitability best complement brand safety when displaying video content? Ideally, these two concepts should be the perfect team. Brand suitability positively targets advertising towards the most appropriate video placements and brand safety negatively targets away from potentially harmful associations. But the effectiveness of this partnership depends on all players in the digital advertising process laying the right [...]

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Oren Netzer (pictured below), co-founder and CEO, cClearly, writes exclusively for ExchangeWire about the benefits of geo targeting and why marketers should make it part of their arsenal now. Geo targeting is the most under-utilised targeting element available to marketers today, giving a huge opportunity to brands that invest time and money in smarter geo targeting. Most advertising platforms now allow for detailed geo targeting – often down to a zip code/postcode or even to GPS coordinates. Yet it is amazing [...]

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