It’s tough being a publisher. Challenges around quality, transparency, and monetisation, to name but a few, mean that publishers have a lot to deal with. ExchangeWire speaks with Pressian Karakostov, CEO, PubGalaxy about some of these challenges, and how the industry is working to overcome them. ExchangeWire: PubGalaxy started life as a publisher before creating its own solution, which puts you in the unique position of seeing the industry from both sides. How does this enhance your offering? Pressian Karakostov: PubGalaxy holds [...]

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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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Awareness campaigns are a critical tool for new and established brands alike. The focus of these campaigns isn’t immediate click throughs and conversions; instead, it is on building brand recognition and consumer retention. Traditional awareness campaigns might include TV advertising or print media. While these avenues put information in front of thousands, it can be nearly impossible to track direct ROI, writes Sandor Jones (pictured below), product marketing manager, YouAppi, exclusively for TheGamingEconomy. The same can be said of rewarded video; [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: On Trend with Location-Based Campaigns; QuanticMind Introduces New Bidding Optimisation Capabilities; Tremor Video DSP Partners with Dstillery; Live Video Ad Views Continue to Increase; and Exponential Launches VDX Video Solution. On Trend with Location-Based Campaigns Location-based advertising has recently become popular, thanks to the ability to provide insights into consumer behaviour. According to a survey of 120 UK digital marketers conducted by GroundTruth in April 2018, [...]

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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 [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Consumers Want Benefits from Data Sharing; Video Is Key to App Install Success; Seven West Media Integrates Lotame DMP & Telaria SSP; New Server-Side & Mobile In-App Solution by PubNative; and Cedato Launches Instream Video Format ‘IntentView’. Consumers Want Benefits from Data Sharing ‘Global data privacy: What the consumer really thinks’ is a report commissioned by the GDMA, DMA UK, and Acxiom. According to [...]

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TheGamingEconomy visited Casual Connect Europe this week, where we interviewed Simon Spaull, managing director, EMEA, AppLovin, about the challenges and opportunities of in-app monetisation for gaming developers both big and small. TheGamingEconomy: How do independent mobile gaming developers gain traction in such a competitive environment? Simon Spaull: Financially, it’s a challenge. If you want to get to the top of an app chart, the predominant way is to buy users; and when you’re competing against the larger companies, it’s difficult, as [...]

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Fortnite is the break-out gaming success of the year. It has currently got 45 million users playing the game (across platforms) and has a run rate of around USD$3bn (£2.3bn) per year. The game has barely touched the sides in terms of growth; and with its Android launch next month, a huge spike in user growth is expected. The freemium gaming model perfected Fortnite’s success has been built on a freemium model. Its ‘Battle Royale’ version is free-to-play [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: European Advertising Market Doubled Since 2012; Adobe Buys Magento Commerce for USD$1.68bn; PubMatic’s Quarterly Mobile Index Finds Continued Header Bidding Growth; Sonobi Launches Consent Management Platform; Mediarithmics Expands to UK; and Data Verification Provided by Ericsson Emodo. European Advertising Market Doubled Since 2012 IAB Europe presents new figures for the European advertising market. With social, mobile, and video pushing growth, the advertising market in [...]

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When King launched its ad business nearly two years ago, you sensed a struggle within the company between the burgeoning ad business and its well-established in-app monetisation strategy. The company has nearly 400 million MAUs, and there was clearly an opportunity to monetise that user with an ad model. Video ads, with their high CPMs, was the logical option for King. The problem, as I saw it, was the length of the video ad on their mobile games.

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