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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The GDPR is finally upon us. For many, if not all of us, the date of 25 May 2018 was only the beginning. There’s still a lot of work to be done and still a lot to be understood, across the entire supply chain. For publishers, the process has been, and will continue to be, particularly challenging. But there are opportunities. ExchangeWire speaks exclusively with Romain Job (pictured below), chief product officer, Smart, about what the GDPR means for controllers [...]

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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 their house in [...]

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Fraud in the advertising sector is nothing new, but awareness is on the rise. According to a new study in the first quarter of 2018, mobile marketers were exposed to over USD$700m (£527.4m) in ad fraud, with another suggesting that advertisers are wasting up to USD$1.28m (£964k) per day. Despite it being on the rise, digital advertising is wide open to abuse. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Chris Liversidge (pictured below), Managing Director, QueryClick, explains that it’s not just advertisers [...]

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A growing demand from advertisers for brand-safe context and engaging content could herald a renaissance for the publishing industry, says Time Inc. UK’s Head of Marketing & Strategy, Paul Lowrey, in this piece for ExchangeWire. “Uncertainty was the only certainty” – this was how Campaign summed up 2017 for the ad industry. Ongoing Brexit uncertainty, a slowing economy giving rise to short-termism, and brand-safety issues begot by the terrorist online content scandal were key contributing factors to a very unsettled 12 months. So, [...]

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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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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) amplifies the reliance of advertisers in Europe on publishers’ consent and contextual data. After all, these factors are essential to the survival of the entire digital advertising ecosystem. In this piece for ExchangeWire, Eric Tucker co-founder & executive chair; and Nuno Jonet VP product (both pictured below) Pocketmath, aims to provide both discussion and practical suggestions for publishers. Targeting strategies that previously served advertisers will be crippled. Publishers will be compelled to evolve to survive. As the [...]

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When King launched its ad business nearly two years ago, you sensed a struggle within the company between the burgeoning ad business and its well-established in-app monetisation strategy. The company has nearly 400 million MAUs, and there was clearly an opportunity to monetise that user with an ad model. Video ads, with their high CPMs, was the logical option for King. The problem, as I saw it, was the length of the video ad on their mobile games. For any of [...]

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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: Resorts World Genting Taps Membership Card to Manage Omnichannel UX; Singapore Broadcaster to Establish Integrated Marketing Unit; Mediacorp Introduces Cross-Screen CPV Model; FreeWheel Rolls into Sydney; Lewis Looks to Expand APAC Footprint; and WPP AUNZ Unveils Government-Focused Engagement Practice. Resorts World Genting Taps Membership Card to Manage Omnichannel UX The integrated resort located in Malaysia’s Genting Highlands wants [...]

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