In today's ExchangeWire news digest: ECI analysis finds media inflation will recover more quickly in APAC than in any other region; S4 Capital releases an updated Q1 trading performance report; and Discovery reserves prediction as it sees Q1 revenues fall.   APAC [...]

Today (5 May 2020) Verve Group is formed, unifying recent Media and Games Invest acquisitions; Verve, the location-based mobile marketing platform based in New York and Carlsbad (CA), PubNative, a global mobile ad exchange, and Applift, a global mobile growth [...]

A collaboration between IBM and Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising company, and the UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach, heralds a major breakthrough for the news industry, as publishers struggle to monetise their content despite huge demand from readers for high [...]

MediaCom UK has announced the appointment of Richard Davies to the open role of chief digital officer, as it continues to drive the digital agenda for its clients. Davies moves into the role having joined MediaCom last year as head of [...]

89% of digital businesses invest in personalisation, according to Forrester’s study. Going forward with developing personalisation technology, OnAudience.com extends the scope for segment definition and adds a new attribute: a person’s personality. Correctly discovered user’s personality gives deep insights into [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Microsoft reportedly looks to invest in Paytm; traffic to pirate film sites rises by almost 60% in the UK; and Publicis Groupe has appointed Justin Billingsley as its new global chief marketing officer.   Microsoft reportedly seeks [...]

Global in-game advertising platform Anzu.io has announced a new collaboration with Nielsen Connectivity, which will bring advanced advertising effectiveness measurement, optimisation, and real-time brand-specific metrics to in-game ad campaigns, driving a new wave of investment in video game advertising. Through collaboration [...]

Niklas Bakos (pictured below), CEO of Adverty, writes exclusively for ExchangeWire about how the economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus is impacting out-of-home (OOH) advertising, and how gaming can help the sector weather the pandemic. When lockdown started in most places, [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the New Zealand government provides a $50m cash boost to media groups struggling amidst the Coronavirus; AT&T reports a loss of almost 90,000 subscribers from its paid TV services; and CVS is breaking into retail [...]

The IPA Bellwether Report for Q1 2020 has revealed that marketing budgets have receded at their fastest rate since the global financial crisis in 2009. The latest report, released yesterday [22 April 2020], attributed the fall to the ongoing Coronavirus [...]