In this article, vice president of digital at South China Morning Post, Ian Hocking (pictured below), sets out the potential impact that the much discussed (and somewhat controversial) termination of third-party cookies. By considering the affect the impending change will have on different parts of the industry, Hocking provides a picture of how a post-cookie landscape may look to advertisers and publishers. The Chrome team within Google have announced a plan to block third-party cookies along with other privacy measures in [...]

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Richard Lloyd, Chief Data Officer of GroupM UK, writes exclusively for ExchangeWire about how identity will survive the impending termination of the third-party cookie. It’s hardly new news that a combination of browser restrictions and data privacy regulations have sealed the fate of the third-party cookie, but the advertising industry’s continued obsession with its demise is misplaced. Third-party cookies are already ineffective in today’s fragmented ecosystem of diverse platforms and devices, and they have been for some time. From smart speakers to [...]

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Carlos Santiago (pictured below), co-founder of the Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM), the cultural branch of the Association of National Advertiser (ANA), speaks exclusively to ExchangeWire about the purpose and benefits behind the organisation’s new CIIM metric. 1. What are the main objectives for the introduction of the CIIM metric? CIIM intends to prove the value of multicultural and inclusive advertising from a subjective conversation to an objective, empirical fact, demonstrating that culture enhances consumer connections while adding substantial incremental [...]

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In a climate of ever-increasing regulatory pressure, and with the impending future of a cookie-less world, it is important that we in the digital advertising industry review our relationship with data and evaluate how we can improve on our understanding of this deep and complicated resource. The introduction of GDPR and the ICO’s recent focus on data compliance has made the processing of data in digital advertising an extremely important and increasingly complex operation. As we move away from the intricacies [...]

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Ahead of the panel discussion on solving the identity challenge at ATS Stockholm 2020, Kelly Jacobson Collins (pictured below), global product compliance director at Unruly, discusses what opportunities have been opened up post-ITP, and how providers can collaborate with publishers for the benefit of the industry. What opportunities have been opened up in the privacy-compliant post-ITP landscape, and how are independent providers outside of GAFA set to capitalise on these? It would be very easy to dwell on the negative side of [...]

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We will be hosting our first event in the Nordics in over eight years on Tuesday, 19th February. ATS Stockholm will focus on the key areas affecting the industry as we head into an uncertain decade for digital marketing. Are we pivoting from precision to predictive marketing? Is the industry ready to look beyond the cookie? And what future can digital media buyers and sellers expect. With all that in mind I have outlined seven key reasons to come this year’s [...]

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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: Tremor International acquires Unruly; IAB UK sets out actions to address ICO’s RTB concerns; PubMatic launches Identity Hub; S4Capital merges with Circus Marketing; Ebiquity acquires Digital Decisions. Tremor International acquires Unruly Tremor International Ltd has announced that it has reached an agreement with News Corp to acquire Unruly, News Corp’s programmatic video marketplace. The transaction is expected to be financially beneficial [...]

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2019’s coming to a close, and with it ends a decade of innovation. In 2010, the iPhone outsold Blackberry for the first time, changing the way people accessed the internet and revolutionising the advertising industry. Since then we’ve seen Facebook become more than a social network, as it established its dominance on the advertising industry alongside Google. We’ve seen changes in the way personal data is used, with the GDPR and CCPA setting the rules for how advertisers engage with [...]

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While the growing number of consumer touch points presents an opportunity to engage with viewers in ways we were never able to before, it also brings new levels of uncertainty to the advertising industry. How can we effectively engage viewers across various devices? Is there a consistent way to measure success, and what exactly does success look like? How can we justify our ever-growing media spend? Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Danny Clayman, VP, Northern Europe, Xandr (pictured below) answers these [...]

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As the decade draws to a close, ExchangeWire has invited thought leaders from across the industry to share their predictions and insight into what 2020 will hold for the ad tech and martech industries. Under the spotlight today is identity, which has seen renewed focus through 2019 following the implementation of privacy-first mechanisms by browsers and looming action from regulators. The decline of addressable audiences2020 will be the year when the proportion of users identifiable through third-party cookies drops below 50%. [...]

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