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 [...]

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Today (10 September) Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon, has announced the launch of Oath Ad Platforms, its simplified suite of intelligent advertising and publishing solutions globally. ExchangeWire spoke with Simon Halstead, head of open demand international; Lewis Sherlock, head of demand platforms EMEA; and Mick Loizou Michail, director of product marketing and demand strategy at Oath, about the new platform, and what it means for both marketers and publishers. “Oath is a business that’s come together in the past [...]

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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: New Ad Criteria from Acceptable Ads Committee on Eyeo; Pre-Bid Solution By Protected Media; AdsWizz Co-operates with Univision Audio Streaming Service; Exterion Media & Transport for London Announce Partnership with Euronews; and smart Launches Native In-App-CPM Solution. New Ad Criteria from Acceptable Ads Committee on Eyeo Adblock Plus makers Eyeo are releasing new criteria for their acceptable ads regulations. The independent Acceptable Ads Committee has [...]

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Demand for connected TV (CTV) is growing across Asia-Pacific, but the lack of audience verification standards and viewability metrics remain key challenges that need to be resolved. Furthermore, media buyers need to better understand audience behaviour so they can reach valuable and engaged audiences, according to Juliette Stead, Telaria’s Asia-Pacific vice president. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Stead notes that having strong demographic targeting options can address some concerns around accuracy and wastage, but urges the need for programmatic buyers to be [...]

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Ask any publisher and they’ll tell you ad nauseum just how valuable Facebook has been for third-party distribution over the years. But, due to changes to its News Feed that elevated content from friends and family over that from publishers and brands, its value has declined precipitously. As a result, many notable publishers have seen their traffic take a nosedive. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Chris Hogg (pictured below), EMEA Managing Director, Lotame explains why data science isn’t just for [...]

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Considering the rapid development of buy-side audience targeting technologies, publishers do, and will, continue to rely on programmatic as the primary way to generate advertising revenue for their business. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Alex Kharitoshin, marketing and product director, Roxot, explains that, in spite of this growth being set to continue, there is a misconception around the impact that header bidding is having on inventory competition. According to eMarketer, 82.5% of digital display ads will be bought [...]

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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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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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