Google has made its move on gaming with the announcement of streaming platform Stadia.  The news came on the second day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; and it surely stands as one of the most significant gaming reveals in the industry’s history. Such a major player moving in with such an ambitious platform could radically impact the broad ecosystem of the industry, the makeup of audiences playing games, and the way the medium is consumed and designed. However, Stadia’s [...]

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Following the launch of their latest whitepaper on the state of programmatic inventory in the UK in the fourth quarter of 2018, James Diba, senior client partner, The Programmatic Advisory, shares the key insights from the report, and what these mean for marketers. The programmatic inventory landscape has seen a rapid rate of change over the last few years and, incredibly, we’ve seen another huge period of change over the course of the last year. How have these changes impacted the [...]

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This week UK monetisation outfit Admix revealed that it had secured an impressive USD$2.1m (£1.63m) in funding to further develop its AR and VR advertising platform. As reported by Tech.EU, Admix was only founded in 2017, with a focus on allowing developers to place advertisements programatically that sit contextually inside content. A simple, hypothetical example would a be a VR game set in a sprawling city. Admix’s platform could allow a developer to assure that programmatic ads appeared only as billboards on [...]

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Following the release of PubMatic’s report, ‘Understanding Inventory Quality: Thinking Beyond Bots’, ExchangeWire speaks with Eric Bozinny (pictured below), director, inventory quality, PubMatic, about the company’s efforts to improve quality within the programmatic landscape. Bozinny explains the different elements of inventory quality, and why it’s more than just fraud. ExchangeWire: What do we mean by ‘inventory quality’? Eric Bozinny: Historically, the concept of inventory quality has been closely associated with ad fraud. The rise of third-party fraud-detection companies reinforced that thought, as [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Brand Safety Study Reveals Carelessness of Marketers; Sublime Skinz Expands European operations; mediasmart & Brave Partner; Additional Funding for Drawbridge; and Partnership for Eyeota & TwentyCi. Brand Safety Study Reveals Carelessness of Marketers A new study by Sizmek on brand safety reveals that 38% of marketers are aware of having delivered adverts on harmful or unsafe web pages. At the same time, only 61% [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: New Ad Criteria from Acceptable Ads Committee on Eyeo; Pre-Bid Solution By Protected Media; AdsWizz Co-operates with Univision Audio Streaming Service; Exterion Media & Transport for London Announce Partnership with Euronews; and smart Launches Native In-App-CPM Solution. New Ad Criteria from Acceptable Ads Committee on Eyeo Adblock Plus makers Eyeo are releasing new criteria for their acceptable ads regulations. The independent Acceptable Ads Committee has [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Google Introduces Audio Ads to DoubleClick Bid Manager; Location Sciences Launches Location Data Authentification; Strategic Partnership Between HubSpot & Taboola; AddApptr Expands to U.S. Market; and Leanplum Enters European Market. Google Introduces Audio Ads to DoubleClick Bid Manager DoubleClick goes audio. The Google programmatic bid manager has just announced support for digital audio ads. Providing access to audio platforms, DoubleClick Bid Manager lets marketers purchase [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Quantcast Implements IAB Framework in Newly Launched ‘Choice’ Platform; Tealium Enhances Privacy & Consent Functionalities; New Inventory for mediasmart; Telaria Launches VMP; and Grapeshot Offers Contextual Data for Video. Quantcast Implements IAB Framework in Newly Launched ‘Choice’ Platform After beta-testing since February this year, audience insights provider Quantcast is launching its platform Quantcast Choice, implementing the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework. Thus, Quantcast [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Significant Increase of Mobile Fraud; Mobile App Video Exchange by OpenX; Media iQ Rebrands to ‘MiQ’; Cheetah Mobile Co-operates with Protected Media for Ad Fraud Detection & Prevention; and Access to Amazon Publisher Services for Smaato Partners. Significant Increase of Mobile Fraud Measuring 3.43 billion app installs and 350+ billion events, as well as processing and analysing 125 terabytes of data per day from [...]

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Commodity Marketers are a critical component to much of the world’s economy. The model is used to trade a wide range of assets – from a barrel of oil and a pound of coffee, to the value of an Apple stock and even future weather patterns. In this piece by Mariano Saenz, CEO and co-founder, Winclap, Saenz discusses what he believes is a key issue faced by mobile app developers: throwing a lot of money at user-acquisition campaigns, paying higher and [...]

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