Brands need to bring their focus back to the basics in 2017 and invest more effort in creating mobile ads that better engage consumers. While still behind other development markets, Asia-Pacific has been increasing adoption of mobile video ads and is [...]

Global programmatic ad spend is predicted to reach USD$37bn (£30bn) by 2019, up from USD$14.2bn (£11.5bn) in 2015. However, as programmatic budgets boom, so do the opportunities for fraudsters to take advantage. In 2016, fraud and viewability concerns ranked as [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Indonesia & India to drive APAC ad spend; Smaato eye China growth from Spearhead acquisition; Thai publishers [...]

Despite growing investment in programmatic and mobile advertising, anxiety still looms – 60% of agency professionals said inventory quality is one of their biggest fears, according to a recent eMarketer report; and they’re right to be worried. Despite many deploying [...]

For China's ad tech industry, the pressing new year resolution for 2017 appears to be building trust and transparency in a market where lines between the referee and players in the game have blurred. ExchangeWire spoke with three executives who identified [...]

Advertisers in India are unwilling to try new tools and set aside sufficient budget in programmatic, which may prevent them from getting the results the ad platform can provide. They also need to realise that programmatic is more than a trading [...]

2016 has truly shown how dynamic an ecosystem the digital advertising industry is. There have been highs and lows, but it has certainly been memorable. In a series of features reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to what [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Spotify APAC tune up programmatic campaigns; Dentsu buy Indian design studio; MEC unveil Wavemaker in China; WPP [...]

Data may be touted as the new oil, but marketers in Asia-Pacific have yet to even take the first step and instead prefer to continue investing their time on optimising traffic. To better understand and target their audience, brands would need [...]

Following the recent news that Opera Mediaworks would be rebranding as AdColony, ExchangeWire caught up with Ryan Griffin, SVP, Strategy, AdColony (formerly Opera Mediaworks), to discuss his perspective on mobile as the new primetime for today's generation. ExchangeWire: Is mobile consumption [...]