Digital Marketing
China, Japan & Korea to Drive App Store Spend; News Corp AU Opens Content Marketing Agency
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 [...]
IPA Bellwether Report Shows Muted Ad Spend Ahead of GDPR: The Industry Reacts
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 [...]
Court Rules in Favour of Adblock Plus; WFA Calls Brands to Change to People-First Approach
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 [...]
APAC Marketers Need to Get Measurement Right First
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 [...]
Data Privacy & Transparency Is Giving Power Back to Consumers
As an internet user, you’ve doubtless felt as though you were being followed from site to site, haunted by the ghosts of shopping carts past. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of their data, and the invisible crumbs left behind via their internet trawls, being bought by companies and used for targeting purposes. From a company’s perspective, however, these crumbs represent valuable insights that can be used to make ads more relevant for consumers and, thus, more effective – [...]
Diamond Hedge Hopes AR Will Help It Sparkle in APAC
With consumers in the Asia-Pacific region already accustomed to augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, one company hopes this means they will be able to more quickly adapt to its own platform. Launched in 2015, Diamond Hedge touts itself as a price and product comparison site for diamonds, offering an inventory of more than one million from retailers such as Zales, Kay, and James Allen. It lets consumers filter through cut, clarity, size, colour, and shape as well as price. Wanting [...]
The Anatomy of the Modern Digital Advertiser: Outcomes-Based vs Enterprise
The service layer is a complicated space right now. Holding groups, consultancies, and vendors are all fighting to work directly with marketers. All are approaching it from a different angle. Holding groups are in a forced rationalisation process, as they to try to recalibrate a convoluted model in a complicated landscape. With their big-brand clients slashing spend, and the duopoly grabbing more digital spend, their need to evolve their model is more urgent than others. Consultancies (including auditors) seem to think they [...]
Why OOH Is the Answer for Digital Advertisers in a GDPR World
With GDPR set to significantly change digital advertising in the near future, it may be time to explore other channels of distributing ads where strict opt-ins are not an issue. Craig Mytton (pictured below), CRO, Bitposter, argues for OOH as an alternative that will reach the consumer, yet does not have to battle privacy and ad blocking issues. The looming GDPR regulations pose a huge threat to digital advertisers who are currently using data to target customers online. Without the stringent [...]
Fyber Partners with Tapjoy & AdColony; Digital's Share in OOH Rising
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Fyber Partners with AdColony & Tapjoy; 13% of Brands’ Media Budgets Goes to OOH; Triton Digital Integrates a2x with Platform 161; and Mobile eCPM Increase Strongest in EMEA Fyber Partners with AdColony & Tapjoy Tech provider Fyber is launching a new in-app header bidding solution. FairBid allows mobile in-app publishers to maximise their ad monetisation by enabling all types of demand to compete in one [...]
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 [...]
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