DTC brands are usually digital-first in their nature and have ambitious growth targets – this means they need to acquire customers at speed and the best way to do this is through marketing, writes Lloyd Greenfield (pictured below), client partner at The Programmatic Advisory, in this piece exclusive to ExchangeWire. Given the importance of marketing for their growth, DTC brands typically start with running paid search and paid social marketing activity in-house from an early stage. These platforms offer them [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – and in this edition: Teads & Adform Join Forces to Guarantee Premium Programmatic Outstream; AppNexus Offers Buyers Fee-Transparent Supply-Side Platform; Adnuntius Enriches Geotargeting Capabilities with Digital Element’s IP Intelligence Solution; Pixability Launches First of its Kind Partner Programme to Enhance Cross-Channel Video Ad Campaigns; and Sovrn Holdings, Inc. Acquires VigLink to Expand Suite of Products & Services for Publishers. Teads & Adform [...]

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As spend in programmatic advertising continues to increase, so does the opportunity for cyber criminals to make more money out of it. How do publishers protect their assets and not jeopardise the experience of their users? ExchangeWire speaks with Amnon Siev, CEO, GeoEdge, about how to block the bad actors and how publishers can protect themselves from malicious activity. ExchangeWire: How does GeoEdge’s technology work? Amnon Siev: Our core focus is helping the publisher deliver an engaging user experience. When you talk [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – and in this edition: S4 Capital plc Appoints Michel de Rijk as CEO APAC; Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts; MightyHive Opens New Office in Stockholm; TimeOne – Mobile Enters Programmatic Audio Market with Trisonic as Exclusive Creative Partner; and Johnston Press acquired by newly formed company JPI Media. S4 Capital plc Appoints Michel de Rijk as CEO APAC S4 Capital plc (SFOR.L), a new era digital advertising and marketing services company, [...]

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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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Scripps to Acquire Triton; Major Ad Exchanges Create Shared Principles to Achieve a Better Programmatic Marketplace; Pangaea Alliance Expands Publishers, Products & Sales Team to Support Growth; eyeo Takes a Stand Against Circumvention Technologies with New Taskforce; Standard Media Index & Nielsen Establish Relationship to fuel SMI’s AccuTV with Nielsen Ad Intel Data Scripps to Acquire Triton The E.W. Scripps Company is acquiring Triton, the global leader in digital audio technology and measurement services, helping Scripps advance its strategies for near- and long-term value [...]

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At first glance, programmatic holds a dominant position in the advertising ecosystem, with escalating spend expected to reach £4.5 bn in the UK next year, representing almost 85% of digital display. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Tim Webster, CSO and co-founder, The Exchange Lab, explores why, despite programmatic investment consistently increasing, it’s still being held back from fully dominating ad spend. Taking into account digital advertising as a whole, programmatic plays a far less significant role, with just 28% of global digital budgets [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Brand Safety Study Reveals Carelessness of Marketers; Sublime Skinz Expands European operations; mediasmart & Brave Partner; Additional Funding for Drawbridge; and Partnership for Eyeota & TwentyCi. Brand Safety Study Reveals Carelessness of Marketers A new study by Sizmek on brand safety reveals that 38% of marketers are aware of having delivered adverts on harmful or unsafe web pages. At the same time, only 61% [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Prebid by OpenX Now Generally Available; Adjust Expands to India; Further Expansion for adsquare in U.S.; Triton Digital Integrates with Tru Optik; and U.S.: 75% of Brands Buy Ads Programmatically. Prebid by OpenX Now Generally Available OpenX has just announced the general availability its pre-bid video header bidding solution, providing another monetisation option to publishers. Prebid offers direct access to OpenX’s video exchange within [...]

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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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