In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Singapore Publisher Merges Content Marketing Units to Create ‘Sweet’; Japanese Agency Spins Up Creative Unit; AU Investment Group Buys E-commerce Marketing Agency; Singapore Insider Paves Way into Japan; Programmatic Trading Desk Switches On in Malaysia; and Eff in Singapore. Singapore Publisher Merges Content Marketing Units to Create ‘Sweet’ Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has unveiled plans to merge its content [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Eastern Europe Is Biggest Growth Market for Mobile Advertising; AppNexus Acquired by AT&T; Eyeo Launches AI-Powered Ad Block Detector; Ligatus Has Entered UK Market; Merkle Expands to MENA; and Sublime Skinz Launches Programmatic Guaranteed. Eastern Europe Is Biggest Growth Market for Mobile Advertising The IAB’s AdEx Benchmark 2017 Report forecasts the value of the mobile ad market at €48bn (£42bn) this year. Mobile continues [...]

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We now know that programmatic is mainstream, as more than half of display ad spend in Europe is traded programmatically, writes Simon Halstead, chair, IAB Europe Programmatic Trading Committee and head of open demand international, Oath. With many different factors at play in the digital advertising industry – GDPR, brand safety, and measurement, to name a few – how will programmatic trading evolve and develop? What attitudes, trends, and technologies will shape its future? The IAB Europe Programmatic Trading [...]

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Mobile continues to drive programmatic growth, reaching record highs in 2017 – and promising outlooks for the future. That makes it more important than ever to get attribution and measurement right, says Itamar Benedy (pictured below), CEO, Glispa. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, he talks about GDPR as an opportunity for mobile, how to create more transparency in the supply chain, and why MNOs and OEMs are the sleeping giants of mobile advertising. ExchangeWire: What are the challenges in mobile ad measurement [...]

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After months of speculation about how GDPR will change programmatic, the deadline for compliance has finally come (and gone). The Media and Marketing Privacy summit, which took place just before the deadline (22 May) made a few final predictions about the how the regulation will affect the buy- and sell-side, how to build a consenting audience, and how programmatic businesses will have to adapt in a GDPR world. Has GDPR killed programmatic? Even though not everyone has [...]

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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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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Google Introduces Audio Ads to DoubleClick Bid Manager; Location Sciences Launches Location Data Authentification; Strategic Partnership Between HubSpot & Taboola; AddApptr Expands to U.S. Market; and Leanplum Enters European Market. Google Introduces Audio Ads to DoubleClick Bid Manager DoubleClick goes audio. The Google programmatic bid manager has just announced support for digital audio ads. Providing access to audio platforms, DoubleClick Bid Manager lets marketers purchase [...]

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Marketers and publishers need to better arm themselves to tap opportunities from the growing adoption of mobile in Asia-Pacific, or risk being left behind. This means, amongst other things, ensuring support for various ad formats such as interstitials and rewarded video, urges OpenX’s co-founder Jason Fairchild, who believes many publishers and advertisers in the region remain unprepared for mobile. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Fairchild adds that campaign strategies need to be tweaked and marketers must assess elements, such as user [...]

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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Quantcast Implements IAB Framework in Newly Launched ‘Choice’ Platform; Tealium Enhances Privacy & Consent Functionalities; New Inventory for mediasmart; Telaria Launches VMP; and Grapeshot Offers Contextual Data for Video. Quantcast Implements IAB Framework in Newly Launched ‘Choice’ Platform After beta-testing since February this year, audience insights provider Quantcast is launching its platform Quantcast Choice, implementing the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent [...]

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Following his appointment as VP Europe, partner services, at OpenX, ExchangeWire took the opportunity to ask Gavin Stirrat (pictured below) about OpenX’s potential expansion plans, the quality and transparency issues in the programmatic industry, and the trends to be expected as a consequence of new privacy and data regulations.  ExchangeWire: With OpenX experiencing its 10th consecutive year of growth, what areas will the company expand into going forward? Gavin Stirrat: Mobile and video have delivered phenomenal growth for our business over the [...]

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