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  • Online Video Spend Overtakes Banner Ads for First Time

    Mobile now accounts for 43% of digital advertising, finds results from the IAB’s latest Digital Adspend report. Mobile’s year-on-year growth was 38% and now accounts for 57% of all display ad spend, 70% of video spend, and 83% of social [...]

  • Programmatic: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same?

    In the latest column from the IAB's Display Trading Council, council members give their views on what has changed in the programmatic space over the last two years. To borrow from John Hughes’ 1986 American teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – [...]

  • Mobile Overtakes Desktop for the First Time in Latest IAB UK Ad Spend Report

    Wednesday (12 October), PwC and IAB UK released the latest digital ad spend study, with the long-awaited news that mobile ad spend (£802m) has taken over desktop spend (£762m) for the first time. In fact, it is mobile that has driven [...]

  • ISBA Not Collaborative in Call for Transparency with Latest Agency Contract Launch

    On 28 April ISBA (Incorporated Society of British Advertisers) weighed in on the advertiser/agency relationship with the launch of new contract terms for media agency services to promote transparency and update the previous template that was launched almost ten years [...]

  • Digital Ad Spend Fastest Growth in 7 Years: Experts Comment

    The latest IAB UK digital ad spend report found that a record £8.61bn was spent on UK digital advertising in 2015, with all aspects of digital media seeing a growth and 60% of display ad spend being traded programmatically. The report, [...]

  • What Changes When Programmatic Goes Mainstream?

    In our latest piece from the IAB's Display Trading Council, council members provide their views on programmatic as a dominant trading mechanism. The last few days have been like research Christmas at the IAB with our flagship Ad spend report showing continued [...]

  • Helping to Dispel the Misnomer of the Ad Tech Tax

    On 24 March the IAB announced the release of the IAB Programmatic Free Transparency Calculator to allow for charges of programmatic ad technology services during a bid request or response to be broken down, providing greater transparency. Transparency is a sore [...]

  • IAB UK's Latest Report Shows Ad Blocking on the Rise

    Yesterday (1 March), the IAB UK released the latest ad blocking report, conducted online by YouGov, which revealed that 22% of British adults online are currently using ad blocking software – up from 18% in October 2015. The report also [...]

  • The Technology is There to Deliver Programmatic Across More Channels Than Currently Use It

    In our latest piece from the IAB’s Display Trading Council, Lewis Sherlock (pictured below), head of enterprise strategy, AOL International, discusses the broader applications of programmatic. Originally, when trading of digital display inventory began through ad networks, it was a way [...]