Expert Predictions: Will 2019 Be the Year of the Single ID?
The year 2019 is almost upon us. ExchangeWire have invited hundreds of thought leaders to share their thoughts on what next year will hold, across a range of topics. The topic of identity management has been brought to the fore in numerous guises in 2018: from omnichannel marketing, to GDPR, unique IDs, to navigating user identity and measurement through walled gardens. Experts share their views on what will constitute ‘identity’ in 2019, and whether there will be a surge in [...]
How Do You Progress from Analytics to Action? Q&A with Katherine Munford, Data2Decisions
ExchangeWire speaks with Katherine Munford (pictured below), MD, Data2Decisions about marketers’ ongoing quest for transparency and the challenges of accurately measuring marketing effectiveness. ExchangeWire: The issue of transparency is something that has been discussed, at length, by the industry. What conversations should brands be having with their agency partners in order to ensure that campaign results are communicated effectively? Katherine Munford: The industry challenges surrounding transparency have led to a lack of faith in basic performance data, with brands concerned about issues including [...]
The Incremental Visit: The Opportunity to Measure What Matters
Thanks to the advances in location technologies, it is possible to know which visitors to a retailer’s store have seen the brand’s ad. However, simply measuring total in-store visits of consumers exposed to a digital campaign is not enough to know the effectiveness of a retailer’s advertising. In fact, this can lead to wasted ad spend or the application of inaccurate insights to future drive-to-store campaigns. In this piece for RetailTechNews, Andy McNab, UK managing director, S4M, explains the significance of measuring [...]
PreBid by OpenX; Adjust Expands to India
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 [...]
UK Q1 2018 Ad Spend Beats Forecast; FreeWheel & Integral Ad Science Partner
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: UK Q1 2018 Ad Spend Beats Forecast; Partnership Between FreeWheel & Integral Ad Science; New Footfall Tracking Capabilities by mediasmart; Cedato Introduces Contextual Lookalike Targeting; and Tapjoy & Winclap Partner. UK Q1 2018 Ad Spend Beats Forecast The first quarter of 2018 has been the strongest first quarter, in terms of ad spend in the UK, for three years. According to the latest Advertising Association/WARC [...]
APAC Publishers Should Tap Advanced Analytics to Get Due Returns
Publishers that assumed they closed on a great sale might find out otherwise if they had used advanced analytics to more accurately value their assets. In this industry byliner, Oath’s Asia-Pacific head of platforms Erin Chao discusses the merits of adopting advanced analytics tools and why standard data tools no longer are effective. Few industries have been disrupted as much as publishing in recent years, with industry players having to fight tooth and nail to secure revenues in a highly crowded [...]
AU Advertisers Still Focused on Ad Returns & Impact: Q&A with AANA CEO John Broome
With the year at its halfway mark, advertisers in Australia remain concerned about generating greater returns and impact from their media investments. In this regard, the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) continues to push the need for transparency and independent measurement of media effectiveness in the digital space, says its CEO John Broome. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Broome discusses the role of agencies and technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), as well as how advertisers’ increasing preference to buy [...]
Why Your Viewability Percentage Doesn't Matter
The topic of viewability in programmatic has been discussed ad nauseam in recent years, so why, you might ask, do we need another article on this subject? Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Joey Henderson, commercial director, Avocet, explains why the conversation needs to continue, but that it shouldn’t be about viewability percentages. I believe that, unfortunately, for much of that time we’ve been focusing on the wrong type of viewability measurement. While countless media dollars and development hours have been spent on measuring, targeting, and optimising [...]
ATS SG 2018 Talks up Role of Data in Customer Engagement & Transparency
The need for data – specifically, quality data – remains a key theme amongst Asian marketers and the region’s ad-tech community, who underscore its role in driving deeper customer engagement and transparency in the industry. Data, for instance, is a key enabler of almost every function within Carousell, a Singapore-based consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online marketplace. It offers valuable insights on who are likely buyers and sellers on the site and what the company needs to focus on when it launches in [...]
Recruitment Site Taps Traditional Ads to Better Connect with APAC Jobseekers
Digital may be the rage, but job search engine Indeed still depends heavily on traditional platforms to build awareness and connect with jobseekers, including those in Asia-Pacific. Because job search would not be something people needed to think of every day, it was important that Indeed was there at the right time and the first thing jobseekers turned to, said its CMO Paul D’Arcy, in an interview with ExchangeWire. The recruitment site boasts some 200 million unique visitors a month, of whom [...]
