In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: the Competition and Markets Authority warns that Adevinta’s plan to buy eBay’s classified unit could stifle competition; the UK sees private marketplaces eclipse open exchanges for the first time; and streaming TV stays in the top spot in the US’s consumer subscription space.   CMA voices concern over Adevinta-eBay deal The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has expressed concern that a proposed deal for ecommerce firm Adevinta to acquire online marketplace Gumtree “could reduce consumer choice, increase fees, [...]

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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: IAS Threat Lab calls for industry to update ads.txt files; 24sata and Njuskalo select Permutive; Sojern offers new travel marketing solutions to attractions customers; Mindshare develops LGBTQ PMP; and Caters news agency partners with Primis for content syndication. IAS Threat Lab calls for industry to update ads.txt files Integral Ad Science (IAS), a global leader in digital ad verification, has [...]

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In this exclusive and wide-ranging interview with ExchangeWire, Janette Higginson (pictured below), buyer development director at Index Exchange, discusses a wide variety of industry topics focusing on APAC, ranging from the popularity of private marketplaces to the sell-side’s role in combating ad fraud. Why are private marketplaces so successful in APAC compared to other regions? Do you see their popularity being maintained in the coming year, or will alternative buying methods such as header bidding gain more of a foothold in [...]

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This Wednesday (12 September, 2018), at DMEXCO, IAB Europe launched two research reports: ‘European Attitudes to Programmatic Advertising Report’ and ‘European Programmatic Market Sizing Report’. With both showing unique insight into the programmatic advertising industry, this piece takes an exclusive look at some of their findings. Now in its fourth year, the ‘Attitudes to Programmatic Advertising’ report shows how opinions, adoption, and strategies are evolving. The report’s key findings show that: – Programmatic in-housing continues to increase and is now the favoured model for [...]

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PubMatic’s latest Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI) focuses on in-app advertising and what’s been happening in this space during the second quarter of 2018. Trends include the key role apps have had in driving mobile ad spend, the increasing use of private marketplaces (PMPs) by advertisers, and in-app fuelling mobile video, writes Roger Williams (pictured below), VP, international marketing, PubMatic, in this piece for ExchangeWire. Covering April to July 2018, the report straddled the pre- and post-General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) environment, [...]

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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: Mobile & Video Fuel AU Ad Spend; Sports PMP Opens Up in SEA Markets; IAS Acquisition Will See Continued APAC Investment; Data-Sharing Platform Opens in Singapore; and JWT Takes Verve to Indonesia. Mobile & Video Fuel AU Ad Spend Online ad revenue in Australia hit AUD$2.1bn (£1.19bn) in the first quarter, fuelled primarily by video and mobile. Mobile [...]

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Today (22 May), PubMatic released its first Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI) report of 2018, providing insight into the mobile advertising industry for both publishers and advertisers during the first quarter of the year. Key highlights include mobile-fuelled header bidding growth; a mobile-web surge in APAC; and the volume of mobile impressions flowing through PMPs seeing continued growth, but not as quickly as the open exchanges. By analysing the flow of digital impressions through PubMatic’s platform, the report identified five key trends in [...]

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Born out of the merger between AOL and Yahoo, Oath is now looking to reach two billion users by 2020 and betting on Asia-Pacific as a key growth engine. It also is touting its commitment to transparency as a market differentiator against competitors that have chosen to build walled gardens. In an interview with ExchangeWire, Tim Mahlman, Oath’s president of advertising and publisher strategy, discussed the importance of Asia-Pacific in driving the company’s further growth and why its pledge to [...]

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Speed or certainty – when programmatic first emerged, buyers had to choose between the two. They could opt for real-time bidding (RTB) and large-scale efficiency, or traditional direct deals and guarantees of inventory. It’s not surprising that the arrival of programmatic direct, which combines the efficiencies of programmatic with the certainty of buying from approved partners, has been enthusiastically embraced by buyers and publishers alike. In fact, OpenX has seen their programmatic direct revenue alone rise by 500% since 2016. One of [...]

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There’s one definitive way to address the issues surrounding brand safety and transparency, but the industry’s not set up to deliver it, says Simon Stone, commercial director, Collective. Unsurprisingly, with the issues surrounding Facebook and YouTube in recent months, there’s growing concern among advertisers over brand safety and a call for transparency in terms of exactly what kind of content their ads will appear next to. This is driving a shift in thinking about digital advertising. Years ago, when I started out [...]

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