The IPA Bellwether Q4 2019 Report, released today 15th January 2020, has revealed a 4% overall increase in marketing budgets, the first such increase since the first quarter of the year. Growth is anticipated to accelerate through 2020 as the business cycle recovers from its current soft spell. Report highlights – Bullish expectations for marketing in 2020-2021 as a result of diminishing political and business uncertainties. – Internet advertising again cited as the primary driver of overall growth in marketing spend, with budgets [...]

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Ahead of ATS London 2019, Tiffany Kelly (pictured below), digital product manager at Lineup, reveals five key strategies which media companies can employ to further their effectiveness, diversify their offering, and increase revenue. Between industry blogs, podcasts and vendor outreach, there is no shortage of content highlighting the latest digital trends. But which trends have been proven to work well for leading media companies today? We review five recent strategies our customers have adopted to successfully drive digital revenue. 1. They are [...]

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As part of a drive to modernise its marketing spend, US FMCG giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) recently announced a shift in priority, moving away from traditional mass marketing methods towards performance marketing channels, as well as reducing ‘agency compensation’ through automation. In this exclusive analysis for ExchangeWire, Hannah King (pictured below), media planning director at agenda21, discusses the potential advantages, and pitfalls, of brands moving to targeted marketing approaches, alongside how existing agency relationships should be maintained. Procter & Gamble’s bold [...]

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The IPA Bellwether Report of Q2 2019, released today Wednesday 17th July, has revealed overall marketing budgets in the United Kingdom have flatlined, with 0% growth observed over the next three months. Confidence in own-company financial prospects has also plummeted to the lowest levels observed since 2011, largely attributed to political uncertainty. However, internet marketing budgets are set to increase by 11.5%, driven by continued technological innovation. Report highlights – Net UK marketing budgets flatline, with 0% growth/decline forecast following +8.7% increase [...]

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The latest ad expenditure report by the Advertising Association and WARC, published on 8 November, shows record investment, with overall ad spend up 7.2% year-on-year, during the first half of 2018, hitting a total of £11.4bn. ExchangeWire asks industry thought leaders to share their views on the report, and the state of the UK digital advertising market. The overall market growth was driven by online advertising, with full-year projection figures being upgraded to 13.3% growth, resulting in a prospective £13bn being [...]

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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 [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: AU Broadcasters Looking to Build Centralised Briefing Portal; APAC Luxury Online Ad Spend Grows 25%, Though Print Remains Primary Channel; Alibaba Buys Stake in Digital Marketing Firm; Amobee Outbids Auction Competitors to Acquire Videology Assets; and Tencent Leads China Subscription OTT Video.  AU Broadcasters Looking to Build Centralised Briefing Portal A group of free-to-air and pay TV broadcasters in [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: AU Consumers Slow to Act on Privacy Concerns; Singapore Programmatic Ad Spend for Travel Audiences Grows 280%; Alibaba Builds AI Copywriter for Marketers; Addressable TV Will Better Arm AU Broadcasters; MCN Launches TV Ad Management Platform; and iProspect & Ashoka Ink APAC Partnership to ‘Drive Change’. AU Consumers Slow to Act on Privacy Concerns A large majority of Australians [...]

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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 [...]

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Sharing an office building with Cambridge Analytica, the Radiocentre team rapidly came to understand what it feels like to be at the centre of a data privacy scandal, writes Mark Barber, planning director, Radiocentre, exclusively for ExchangeWire. Just to get through the front doors of 55 New Oxford Street in Central London, the Radiocentre team had to weave through a swarm of paparazzi camped outside the building desperate to capture the best snap of the culpable Cambridge Analytica managers who had [...]

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