This week UK monetisation outfit Admix revealed that it had secured an impressive USD$2.1m (£1.63m) in funding to further develop its AR and VR advertising platform. As reported by Tech.EU, Admix was only founded in 2017, with a focus on allowing developers to place advertisements programatically that sit contextually inside content. A simple, hypothetical example would a be a VR game set in a sprawling city. Admix’s platform could allow a developer to assure that programmatic ads appeared only as billboards on [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: AU Broadcasters Looking to Build Centralised Briefing Portal; APAC Luxury Online Ad Spend Grows 25%, Though Print Remains Primary Channel; Alibaba Buys Stake in Digital Marketing Firm; Amobee Outbids Auction Competitors to Acquire Videology Assets; and Tencent Leads China Subscription OTT Video.  AU Broadcasters Looking to Build Centralised Briefing Portal A group of free-to-air and pay TV broadcasters in [...]

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With the year at its halfway mark, advertisers in Australia remain concerned about generating greater returns and impact from their media investments. In this regard, the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) continues to push the need for transparency and independent measurement of media effectiveness in the digital space, says its CEO John Broome. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Broome discusses the role of agencies and technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), as well as how advertisers’ increasing preference to buy [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Singapore Publisher Merges Content Marketing Units to Create ‘Sweet’; Japanese Agency Spins Up Creative Unit; AU Investment Group Buys E-commerce Marketing Agency; Singapore Insider Paves Way into Japan; Programmatic Trading Desk Switches On in Malaysia; and Eff in Singapore. Singapore Publisher Merges Content Marketing Units to Create ‘Sweet’ Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has unveiled plans to merge its content [...]

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may be up and running for over a month now, but businesses in Asia-Pacific will need to reassess their data strategy and ensure they can earn the trust of consumers who are increasingly wary of how their data is being used. Rajnesh Singh, Internet Society’s (ISOC) Asia-Pacific regional bureau director, noted that while many likely received requests to provide consent or update their notification and profile settings, it remains to be seen whether these or [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: AANA Forms Alliance with PwC’s CMO Advisory; Forsman & Bodenfors Goes to Singapore; Majority of Australians Read News Online; New Appointments at IAB AU & SG; and Consulting Firm Buys Chinese Marketing Agency. AANA Forms Alliance with PwC’s CMO Advisory The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) says it has brought in PwC’s CMO Advisory to share its [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: China, Japan & Korea to Drive App Store Spend; News Corp AU Opens Content Marketing Agency; WPP & Dentsu Exchange Swap Shares in APAC Agencies; FTChinese Moves to Subscription Model Seeking New Revenue; and Innovid Opens Up in Singapore. China, Japan & Korea to Drive App Store Spend Consumer spending in app stores is projected to climb 92% from last year [...]

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Market budget growth lost further momentum during the first quarter of 2018, according to the IPA Bellwether report published last Wednesday (18 April). In fact, budgets are growing at the slowest rate since recordings began in 2016. Report highlights – Internet continues to perform best, but main media slips into contraction – Ad spend set to rise by just 0.8% in 2018 – Muted ad spend growth predicted for 2018 and 2019 In line with the trend seen since the end of 2012, UK [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Adblock Plus Victorious Again; Manifesto by the World Federation of Advertisers; Dataxu Announces New Programmatic TV Solution; Slow Growth of UK Marketing Budgets; and SpotX Cooperates with XITE Networks for Programmatic TV. Adblock Plus Victorious Again Another landmark ruling settles against German publishers: following a number of legal actions by German publishers such as ProSiebenSat1, Spiegel, and Süddeutsche, Berlin-based Axel Springer Verlag had brought [...]

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Measurement is the important piece of the puzzle Asia-Pacific marketers need to get right in order to fix what may be wrong with their programmatic campaigns. “I would always start with measurement”, Attila Jakab, Infectious Media’s managing director, said in an interview with ExchangeWire. “What is the measure of success? What are you trying to achieve? And how can you come up with a better way of measuring that business goal?” Jakab said. “Once you have that [established] and the right measurement [...]

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