In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: digital publishers in Australia express fears that the ACCC’s News Media Bargaining Code could damage diversity within the industry; YouTube announces that it is trialling a new short-form video feature, “Shorts”, in India; and Prebid.org marks its third birthday by expanding to CTV and OTT.   Digital publishers voice concerns over ACCC code   10 of Australia’s largest digital publishers have come together to express their fear that the ACCC’s News Media Bargaining Code may damage the diversity of [...]

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Following the Prebid Leadership Summit in October, Dikshant Joshi (pictured below), director of product management at AdPushup, penned this exclusive article for ExchangeWire on the importance of Prebid for publishers, and how the technology is set to evolve. Why prebid is popular among publisher communities Header bidding is a response to the inefficient waterfall method of ad serving and the walled gardens of the duopoly. When header bidding first emerged, a lot of players started building proprietary tech—poor standards and lack of [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: IAB & IAB Tech Lab release CCPA Compliance Framework for public comment; Rubicon Project acquires RTK.io; Broadsign and AdQuick announce partnership; Merkle combines digital and customer analytics; and CMO Council publishes customer loyalty study. IAB & IAB Tech Lab release CCPA Compliance Framework for public comment IAB, the trade association for the digital media and marketing industries, and its affiliated [...]

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Writing on an exclusive basis for ExchangeWire, Deepti Phatak (pictured below), sales project and program lead at Verizon Media, explains how both publishers and advertisers can benefit through the promotion of unambiguous bidding via the transition to first-price auctions. Ever since the creation of programmatic advertising, there has been the need to improve transparency to benefit all players in the market. After all, according to the Boston Consulting Group, this is now a USD$7bn (£5.62bn) industry in APAC alone, while eMarketer [...]

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The impact of header bidding on desktop-based advertising has been well documented, giving an increased level of fairness within ad auctions which was not present under waterfall systems. However, a number of barriers, such as a lack of SDK development and poor adoption of first-price auctions, have until now prevented header bidding from being as effective a system on mobile environments. Following on from vibrant discussion at ATS Singapore, Freddy Friedman, chief product officer at Smaato, discusses with ExchangeWire on why [...]

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While header bidding has transformed the programmatic industry in desktop and mobile web environments, in-app advertising has not yet capitalised on this method of ad purchasing. Given the high pace of development in the APAC region, especially in the mobile sector with the upcoming roll-out of 5G services, it stands to reason that in-app header bidding will give the APAC programmatic industry a strong boost. Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Alex Khan (pictured below), Managing Director, APAC at Smaato discusses the importance [...]

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Header bidding has provided a new opportunity for publishers to take control over their programmatic advertising. While for brands and agencies, it promised to make a new whole range of quality inventory options available via real-time bidding, writes Moti Tal (pictured below), co-founder and CTO, Simplaex, in this piece for ExchangeWire. For every extra lane we add to the RTB motorway, it seems there’s an accompanying pile up somewhere further down the road. So it proves with header bidding, where leaping [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Prebid by OpenX Now Generally Available; Adjust Expands to India; Further Expansion for adsquare in U.S.; Triton Digital Integrates with Tru Optik; and U.S.: 75% of Brands Buy Ads Programmatically. Prebid by OpenX Now Generally Available OpenX has just announced the general availability its pre-bid video header bidding solution, providing another monetisation option to publishers. Prebid offers direct access to OpenX’s video exchange within [...]

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Considering the rapid development of buy-side audience targeting technologies, publishers do, and will, continue to rely on programmatic as the primary way to generate advertising revenue for their business. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Alex Kharitoshin, marketing and product director, Roxot, explains that, in spite of this growth being set to continue, there is a misconception around the impact that header bidding is having on inventory competition. According to eMarketer, 82.5% of digital display ads will be bought programmatically in 2018. That [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Ad Blocking Rates on the Decrease Since 2016; New Majority Stakeholder for Integral Ad Science; Outbrain Acquires AdNgin; Fyber Supplies FairBid Mechanism to Facebook Audience Network; Video Study: Longform Video Ads Keep Users Engaged; and Amobee Integrates with ownerIQ. Ad Blocking Rates on the Decrease Since 2016 Monitoring ad blocking activities for the past two years, a two-year ad blocking audit among the members [...]

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