In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Fox to buy Tubi TV; S4 Capital sees strong organic growth; AnyMind Group acquires POKKT Mobile Ads; PubMatic releases Audience Encore; and Dentsu Data Labs & Adverty reveal mobile users prefer non-intrusive in-game ads. Fox to buy Tubi TV Fox has reached an agreement to purchase Tubi TV for USD$440m in cash. To help pay for the acquisition, the company [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Broadsign partners with AdMobilize; TVSquared launches always-on attribution platform; 64% increase in mobile adblocking; PubMatic releases video monetisation trends report; and IPA releases commercial media habits study. Broadsign partners with AdMobilize AdMobilize, a world-leading audience intelligence company powering DOOH networks with real time, fully-anonymous AI, and Broadsign, a leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing technology platform, have announced a partnership to [...]

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As the decade draws to a close, ExchangeWire has invited thought leaders from across the industry to share their predictions and insight into what 2020 will hold for the ad tech and martech industries. Under the spotlight today is publisher monetisation, which is facing ever-greater challenges in the privacy-first era, though this in turn leads to opportunities which could not previously be realised. Solving the holy trinity for publishersThe holy trinity of advertising in 2019 was trust, transparency and brand safety. [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: InfoSum launches first-party data platform; Smart expands to UK market; VIOOH research: 2020 to be year programmatic digital OOH goes mainstream; ConversionWorks and Datalicious Korea to merge with MightyHive; and The Ozone Project signs The Stylist Group as its newest publisher. InfoSum launches first-party data platform InfoSum has announced the launch of its Discovery platform, which enables media owners to [...]

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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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ExchangeWire has been doing ‘proper’ European events for over ten years. All our events are done predominantly through the native language of the country in which we host events: French, Spanish, Swedish, or German. I have even given two French monologues to an audience of over 500 French men and women. It must have been laughable to hear me blunder my way through a ten-minute overview of the programmatic landscape. I thank those attendees for not walking out on both those [...]

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China may be the world’s biggest game market, with regard to user numbers and revenues, but for many months the nation’s Government had declined to approve a single new game. That all changed in recent days. As reported by the South China Morning Post, a new body, the State Administration of Radio and Television (SART), was formed in March 2018, with a view to monitoring media content intended for public consumption. From 28 March 2018, no new game titles were approved [...]

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ExchangeWire have invited hundreds of thought leaders to share their thoughts on what next year will hold, across a range of topics. Today, publisher monetisation takes centre stage. Will 2019 be about publisher diversification, improved technology to fuel better monetisation, or a shift of focus towards quality content? Uniformity, trust, simplicity “The WFA global media charter was a significant development of 2018; one that was music to the ears of reputable publishers. The first decade of the programmatic era brought wonders to marketing, albeit [...]

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Reality Clash is an in-development mobile AR shooter that integrates blockchain, cryptocurrencies, dynamic in-game advertising, and geo-mapping technology into the gameplay experience it offers. Yes… there are a lot of tech buzzwords in that opening line. We’d only need to throw in AI and VR and it might seem like a parody of contemporary marketing parlance. But in truth, there’s often a meaningful reality hidden somewhere behind the hype of headline-grabbing tech trends. And it just so happens that Reality Clash [...]

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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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