Header bidding has provided a new opportunity for publishers to take control over their programmatic advertising. While for brands and agencies, it promised to make a new whole range of quality inventory options available via real-time bidding, writes Moti Tal (pictured below), co-founder and CTO, Simplaex, in this piece for ExchangeWire. For every extra lane we add to the RTB motorway, it seems there’s an accompanying pile up somewhere further down the road. So it proves with header bidding, where leaping [...]

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The year 2019 is almost upon us. ExchangeWire have invited hundreds of thought leaders to share their thoughts on what next year will hold, across a range of topics. Ever a hot topic in the advertising industry, our experts reveal how they believe transparency across the supply chain will change next year. Shortening the supply chain “It’s no secret that a shorter supply chain tends to be a more efficient one and, next year, I expect we’ll see an uplift in companies cutting back [...]

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In this piece, Daniel Spears (pictured below), programmatic director, The Guardian, explains why achieving transparency is going to be tough, no matter how much marketers demand it, because of ‘opacity by design’. There is a solution, and it all starts with reporting. A healthy market is fuelled by investor confidence, and confidence is built on trust. If you’re an investor in the digital ad economy – whether a marketer seeking ROI or a publisher pursuing monetisation – opacity is undermining your interests. As [...]

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Today (17 October, 2018), six global ad exchanges have released an open letter to advertisers and publishers, outlining a set of industry principles that they are committing to, in a drive to “promote clarity and trust for every participant in the market”. OpenX, Sovrn, Rubicon Project, PubMatic, SpotX, and Telaria are forming a coalition to build a “lasting, high-quality, and trusted programmatic marketplace”, and “unleash the full potential of programmatic advertising”. ExchangeWire speaks with Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX, who led the [...]

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In this Q&A, Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX talks to ExchangeWire about the progress that has made in terms of transparency, the importance of an industry-wide standard to achieve further progress, and the areas of the industry that are seeing the most exciting developments.  ExchangeWire: Transparency has been under the spotlight over the last months. Has significant progress been made to increase quality and transparency since it hit the headlines? Tim Cadogan: Yes, there has been material progress in both quality and transparency [...]

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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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ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: UK Q1 2018 Ad Spend Beats Forecast; Partnership Between FreeWheel & Integral Ad Science; New Footfall Tracking Capabilities by mediasmart; Cedato Introduces Contextual Lookalike Targeting; and Tapjoy & Winclap Partner. UK Q1 2018 Ad Spend Beats Forecast The first quarter of 2018 has been the strongest first quarter, in terms of ad spend in the UK, for three years. According to the latest Advertising Association/WARC [...]

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With the year at its halfway mark, advertisers in Australia remain concerned about generating greater returns and impact from their media investments. In this regard, the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) continues to push the need for transparency and independent measurement of media effectiveness in the digital space, says its CEO John Broome. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Broome discusses the role of agencies and technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), as well as how advertisers’ increasing preference to buy [...]

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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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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may be up and running for over a month now, but businesses in Asia-Pacific will need to reassess their data strategy and ensure they can earn the trust of consumers who are increasingly wary of how their data is being used. Rajnesh Singh, Internet Society’s (ISOC) Asia-Pacific regional bureau director, noted that while many likely received requests to provide consent or update their notification and profile settings, it remains to be seen whether these or [...]

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