UK Advertising Delivers 21st Consecutive Quarter of Growth in Strongest Q3 Since 2015; Facebook Ad Placements Down 15% as Instagram Grows; and Bloomberg Media Launches TRIGR TV. UK Advertising Delivers 21st Consecutive Quarter of Growth in Strongest Q3 Since 2015 UK ad spend rose 5.1% year-on-year to reach £5.6bn in Q3 2018, marking the 21st consecutive quarter of market growth and the industry’s strongest third quarter of the year since 2015. This record investment highlighted in Monday’s (28 January) Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure [...]

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Recently Jay Friedman, president, Goodway Group, shared his 2019 predictions, as they apply to those with ‘boots on the ground’, arguing that many predictions do not impact the day-to-day of most people working within the digital advertising industry. Robert Webster, founder of branding consultancy, Canton Marketing Solutions, and digital strategy director of retail intent data company, Sub2 Technologies, found himself disagreeing with some of Friedman’s predictions. Here, Webster shares his reasons why. Over recent years, I have read a number of [...]

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If you aren’t bored of 2019 predictions by this point, here are some from Jay Friedman (pictured below), president, Goodway Group, for those on the ground, working within day-to-day campaign planning and operations.  I’ve seen all the big predictions pieces. “CX will be in!” “AI will dominate!” Yeah, yeah. Tell that to the media trader who has 57 ad groups to create for the new Valentine’s Day campaign about to launch. These are boots-on-the-ground predictions. These are predictions that deal with [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the EMEA region – and in this edition: European Commission Writes ‘Code of Practice’ to Combat Fake News; AT&T Launches New Advertising Company Xandr; Facebook’s Clashes with Instagram Prompted Co-Founders’ Departure; Will Chinese Censorship Cause Internet to Split in Two? VPNs Keep Providing Access to Free Internet in China; and Adobe Unveils Virtual Analyst & New Audio Analytics Capabilities in Adobe Analytics. European Commission Writes ‘Code of Practice’ [...]

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The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal has thrown issues like trust and transparency in the programmatic industry into sharp relief. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Adrian Newby (pictured below), CTO, Crownpeak, talks about the appropriate consent and ePrivacy measures going forward, and how the GDPR is going to impact user experiences. ExchangeWire: Does the publicity around Cambridge Analytica reflect long-term trust issues in the advertising ecosystem? If so, what should the industry do about this? Adrian Newby: The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data [...]

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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 Marketers Unable to Deliver Cross-Channel Personalised CX; Data Breach Affected 1M Facebook Users in PH & INDO; Publicis Media Launches Commerce Practice; AU Consumers Listen Over Breakfast & Watch Over Dinner; Screen Media Sets Up in SEA; and Dentsu Makes Acquisition & Investment in U.S. AU Marketers Unable to Deliver Cross-Channel Personalised CX Some 67% of Australian marketers [...]

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It’s been quite a month for Facebook, Cambridge Anayltica, and a previously unknown Cambridge researcher named Aleksandre Kogan, writes Kirsty Cameron, digital planning director, Starcom, exclusively for ExchangeWire. The facts, as most people know them by now, are that some 270,000 people opted in to answer some questions through an app called MyDigitalLife, which gave the researcher some pretty rich data sets. What a lot of people didn’t know, was that at that time, it was standard practice for apps [...]

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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’s BAT amongst five platforms to grab ad spend growth; More AU consumers tuning into radio; Japan firm first to complete IAB audit verification programme; Dentsu opens new APAC HQ in Singapore; and Quantcast expands into APAC markets. China’s BAT Amongst 5 Platforms to Grab Ad Spend Growth China’s three biggest internet players (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent [BAT])are [...]

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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 publishers to set up audience data co-op; News Corp inks data-sharing partnership; AdParlor APAC offers online-offline Facebook tracking; Tencent certifies metrics firm for social ads platform; and Most AU marketers use guesswork to determine revenue contribution. AU publishers to set up audience data co-op Fairfax Media, News Corp Australia, and Nine have banded together to create a local [...]

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Born out of the merger between AOL and Yahoo, Oath is now looking to reach two billion users by 2020 and betting on Asia-Pacific as a key growth engine. It also is touting its commitment to transparency as a market differentiator against competitors that have chosen to build walled gardens. In an interview with ExchangeWire, Tim Mahlman, Oath’s president of advertising and publisher strategy, discussed the importance of Asia-Pacific in driving the company’s further growth and why its pledge to [...]

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