Search advertising continues to account for a significant proportion of overall ad spend, with £6.7bn being spent in these channels last year according to AA/WARC figures. In such a developed market, opportunities for smaller brands can be harder to come by. In this interview with ExchangeWire, Mainline Menswear‘s Jonathan Patrick, head of marketing and Robert Charlton, PPC lead, discuss the challenges brands face when working in paid search channels, and how they have capitalised on opportunities during peak periods such as [...]

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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: Mobile ad fraud cost marketers over USD$2.3bn (£1.89bn) in H1 2019; 79% of UK marketers acknowledge cross-channel video advertising wave; Centro enforces app-ads.txt to automatically target authorised and validated sellers; Teads offers 100% viewability on VCPM and CPCV buys; and Merkle launches data-driven planning methodology, Pando Planning, in the UK. Mobile ad fraud cost marketers over USD$2.3bn (£1.89bn) in [...]

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Advertising: a truly global industry. Whether this is at a form comprising of hastily-scrawled posters attached to telephone poles, or the totality of links within the complex programmatic supply chain serving countless ads across the world each second. Despite this, it can be easy to adopt a national status quo bias by focusing only on what other companies are doing in your own market, thus accidentally negating the chance of identifying potential opportunities stemming from technology, innovations and ideas from [...]

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Following the announcement earlier in the year that Google Ad Exchange traffic will transition to a first-price auction model by late August to early September, the industry has been awash with queries as to how this will affect optimisation, and the effect of bid shading tactics. In this exclusive article for ExchangeWire, Benjamin Hansz (pictured below), vice president of strategy at Simplaex, dispels three of the myths surrounding first-price auctions, and what yield management will look like in these environments. There has [...]

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As we approach the 10th anniversary of ATS London, ExchangeWire hosted a preview of what will be discussed and debated on the day. Paul Gubbins (pictured below), global programmatic strategy lead at Unruly, covers the hot topics at the preview, and teases what is set to come at ATS itself. I have been to eight out of the ten ATS events in London and I think it’s safe to say, each year it gets bigger and the debate more informative and [...]

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With tracking becoming more restricted, advertisers are having to do more to extract as much value from their ad spend as possible, hence the rise of solutions mentioning “AI” at every turn. However more can also be done to measure audience response to advertising, beyond whether they have viewed and interacted with the ad. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, David Wharram (pictured below), CEO of Coast Digital, discusses the capabilities of modern biometric testing in assessing emotional response to adverts, along [...]

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In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia Pacific region – in this edition: OpenX expands into Australia; Essence wins integrated media agency of record duties for ZEE5 India; Verizon Media launches Yahoo Studio.   OpenX expands into Australia OpenX, an independent digital advertising exchange, has announced the official launch of operations in Australia. The company also announced the hiring of advertising veteran Mitchell Greenway as director of partner services for Australia and New [...]

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UK ad spend increased by 4.2% year on year to hit £6.0bn in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, released today Tuesday 30th July. Growth for the overall year is forecast to reach 4.6% to £24.6bn. Report HighlightsOverall growth for 2020 is predicted to reach 5.3%. Total online display, which includes broadcaster video-on-demand, saw growth of 16.6%. Online radio advertising expenditure grew by 26.5% year-on-year. Growth is predicted for the majority of advertising formats across 2019, with [...]

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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: Vungle expands advertiser offering; premium video growing stronger as it becomes more addressable and data-driven; intelligent flighting strategies maximise ROI on digital campaigns; RevLifter raises £2.3m in seed round; and campaign overexposure has negative impact on branding performance. Vungle expands advertiser offering Following its agreement to be acquired by Blackstone earlier in the month, Vungle, a performance marketing platform, has [...]

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Ad blocking, a scourge to online publishers, costing them an average of over £930,000 per year according to certain estimates. While uptake rates have declined slightly in the UK, the volume of impressions affected has grown within this period, and with both the US and APAC showing increased use of ad blockers, the antidote has by no means been found. Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Michael Korsunsky (pictured below), CEO at MGID North America profiles the average user of ad blocking software, [...]

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