In June this year, The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released its Update Report into Adtech and Real-Time Bidding, which highlighted “systemic concerns” surrounding the compliance of RTB in upholding consumer privacy. Ahead of the fact-finding briefing to be held today, Tuesday 19th November, as the six-month window of engagement with the DPA draws to a close, ExchangeWire spoke with Simon McDougall (pictured below), executive director for technology and innovation at the ICO, to discuss where progress has been made from the [...]

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Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Peter Wallace (pictured below), commercial director of GumGum Europe, details how vigilance is required in the ongoing battle against ad fraud, where progress has been made, and how the industry needs to collaborate to deal with the greater sophistication of fraudulent techniques. Of all aspects of the brand safety crisis, ad fraud is perhaps one of the biggest. The news often favours stories about negative adjacencies, and for good reason – headlines about YouTube scandals are great [...]

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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: Agencies join JICWEBS blockchain pilot; PubMatic releases Q3 2019 QMI report; Impact expands mobile partnership capabilities; The Trade Desk releases consumer streaming survey; and Jivox launches IQiD. Agencies join JICWEBS blockchain pilot JICWEBS, the cross-industry committee which defines standards and best practice for digital advertising, has confirmed additional participants in their pilot project which evaluates how blockchain, or Distributed Ledger [...]

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This week’s edition of The MadTech Podcast was recorded in front of a live audience in New York with special guests Joe Root, co-founder of Permutive; Nate Woodman, former CDO of Havas; and Jason Schmidt, VP data strategy & partnerships at Conde Nast discussing the future of programmatic advertising and identity in a privacy-first world. In this week’s episode: – The future of programmatic advertising as cookies crumble away. Does third-party data still hold the same weight of importance? Will ITP completely [...]

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Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Giovanni Stocchi (pictured below), CEO of ADmantX, dives into the ongoing trend for publishers closely managing their own first-party data, and how they can further refine their approach in creating detailed audience segments. GDPR has been the push publishers needed to take back control of their first-party data to offer advertisers custom-fit audiences and propensity modelling. Publishers know they have not always guarded their audience data closely enough to ensure that they profit from it, rather than third-parties. [...]

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Following the Prebid Leadership Summit in October, Dikshant Joshi (pictured below), director of product management at AdPushup, penned this exclusive article for ExchangeWire on the importance of Prebid for publishers, and how the technology is set to evolve. Why prebid is popular among publisher communities Header bidding is a response to the inefficient waterfall method of ad serving and the walled gardens of the duopoly. When header bidding first emerged, a lot of players started building proprietary tech—poor standards and lack of [...]

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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: DoubleVerify acquires Ad-Juster; Rubicon Project announces LiveRamp integration; IPA supports ISBA Origin; AudienceProject launches AudienceHub; and Innovid expanding in Europe. DoubleVerify acquires Ad-Juster DoubleVerify, a leading independent platform for digital media measurement and analytics, has announced the acquisition of Ad-Juster, a SaaS-based reporting and analytics platform for digital publishers. Ad-Juster services deliver the data transparency and insights publishers use to [...]

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