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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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: European Advertising Market Doubled Since 2012; Adobe Buys Magento Commerce for USD$1.68bn; PubMatic’s Quarterly Mobile Index Finds Continued Header Bidding Growth; Sonobi Launches Consent Management Platform; Mediarithmics Expands to UK; and Data Verification Provided by Ericsson Emodo. European Advertising Market Doubled Since 2012 IAB Europe presents new figures for the European advertising market. With social, mobile, and video pushing growth, the advertising market in [...]

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Today (22 May), PubMatic released its first Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI) report of 2018, providing insight into the mobile advertising industry for both publishers and advertisers during the first quarter of the year. Key highlights include mobile-fuelled header bidding growth; a mobile-web surge in APAC; and the volume of mobile impressions flowing through PMPs seeing continued growth, but not as quickly as the open exchanges. By analysing the flow of digital impressions through PubMatic’s platform, the report identified five key trends in [...]

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With the Nordic market set for huge growth in the near future, ad exchange Netric and video network PlayAd are teaming up for a new partnership aimed at providing monetisation opportunities for  premium publishers’ video content, ExchangeWire has learnt. Combining PlayAd’s stack with Netric’s platform was a logical step, says Daniel Ahlbert (pictured below), CEO, Netric, as video is becoming increasingly important in the Nordics. Netric’s platform registering video revenue increases of 55% between Q3 and Q4 2017 alone. We [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: IAB Releases GDPR Framework: Call for Feedback; OpenX Bans 300×250 Video; Improve Digital Offers First-Price Auction Option; New Custom Bid Algorithms at Amobee; and Rubicon Project Opens Its Exchange for Third-Party DSPs. IAB Releases GDPR Framework: Call for Feedback With the release of the draft technical specifications for its GDPR Transparency & Consent Framework, the IAB is now asking industry participants for feedback on their attempts at [...]

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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 place, in transparent [...]

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Today (20 February), PubMatic released its fourth Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI) report of 2017, providing insight into the mobile advertising industry for both publishers and advertisers during last year’s final quarter. Key highlights include the global opportunity represented for mobile video, and a robust premium on eCPMs from mobile PMPs versus the open marketplace. By analysing the flow of digital impressions through PubMatic’s platform, the report identified six key trends. Mobile web header bidding began to reach maturity, with mobile [...]

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