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Austrian News Site Die Presse Registers 100x Increase in Pre-roll Video
styria digital one (sd one), Austria’s leading digital online marketing association, today revealed that the Austrian news site Die Presse, which is part of sd one’s portfolio, has increased its pre-roll instream video inventory across its site from 300,000 advertising impressions in 2016, to over 31m in 2018. Die Presse integrated the technology platform ‘vi stories’ to automatically deliver contextual video content that matches page content. Die Presse then delivers pre-roll instream advertising before the video content. The content delivered by [...]
Copyright Law & Global Data Policies: Q&A with Finn Raben, ESOMAR
2019, thus far, has been a tumultuous year within the European advertising ecosystem with wide-reaching copyright directives and the looming, yet turgid, prospect of Brexit. There are also uncertain times ahead within global data policy, with the upcoming EU ePrivacy Regulation coupled with remaining uncertainty within organisations as to who is responsible for data protection. ExchangeWire speaks with Finn Raben (pictured below), director general of ESOMAR, for insight into how organisations can navigate through these turbulent waters. ExchangeWire: As alluded to in [...]
lastminute.com Set to Disrupt Marketing Industry with Launch of Playbook; Tappx Launches App-ads-txt.com to Drive Adoption for App-ads.txt
lastminute.com Set to Disrupt Marketing Industry with Launch of Playbook; Tappx Launches App-ads-txt.com to Drive Adoption for App-ads.txt; Lotame Unveils Unstacked Approach to Data Solutions for Publishers, Marketers & Agencies; Jivox Launches Program to Help Migrate Brands Using Ad Servers to a Personalised Dynamic Creative Optimisation Platform (DCO); Flashtalking Expands Global Footprint to Support Worldwide Growth; and Adform Secures Investment Highlighting Positive Future for Ad Tech. lastminute.com Set to Disrupt Marketing Industry with Launch of Playbook lastminute.com launched ‘Playbook’ on Wednesday (10 [...]
The Trade Desk's Anna Forbes Discusses IBM Offloading Martech, Lastminute.com Launching Consultancy & Sizmek
On this week’s episode of The MadTech Podcast, ExchangeWire’s Ciaran O’Kane and Lindsay Rowntree are joined by Anna Forbes, UK General Manager, The Trade Desk, to discuss the latest madtech news and trends. In this week’s episode: – IBM selling their marketing software and e-commerce platform to private equity firm Centerbridge. What are the implications for other areas of their business and for the ad tech-martech relationship as a whole? – lastminute.com launching their own in-housing consultancy Playbook, to sit aside their existing [...]
Ad Tech: Keep Calm & Carry On
Sizmek’s downfall seems to have triggered panic in ad-tech circles. We all love a bit of drama – but we truly have reached new heights of hyperbole when we get comparisons between the fall of a mid-sized ad-tech firm and the 2007 multibillion dollar financial meltdown. Drama, indeed. Maybe there are unseen debt-bergs submerged in the murky waters of media ready to sink ad tech. But then this is always the case. Intermediaries always carried debt – and always will. When [...]
Fraternité Is the Main Message of ATS Paris 2019
On Wednesday 3 April, ExchangeWire presented ATS Paris 2019 in front of some of the finest minds within the French digital advertising industry. Whilst the range of vendors, agencies, and publishers was highly diverse, a few core themes began to make themselves present over the course of the day. The proposal for a single, or at least a select few, standard(s) for user identification was suggested throughout several of the panels. Whilst this raises obvious questions surrounding privacy, the context of [...]
Nearly Half of Global Travel Marketers Are Not Planning to Advertise on Snapchat This Year
Snapchat burst onto the scene earlier in the decade, and has remained an independent social media platform, despite several competitors being absorbed by Facebook or fizzling out into obscurity. Yet, as discussed below, it remains a lesser-picked platform by travel marketers, despite increasing digital ad spending in the industry. Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Chris Blaine (pictured below), VP EMEA at Sojern discusses the reasons why travel marketers are unconvinced by Snapchat’s offering, eschewing it in favour of alternative platforms. It’s been [...]
Collaboration Can Make 2019 the Year of the Unified ID
The dominance of Facebook & Google is well documented and is in part due to their ability to use a single user ID. The 20% do not experience the benefit of this and instead have to rely on an inconsistent mess of mismatched cookie data. Dave Castell (pictured below), general manager EMEA – inventory & partnerships, The Trade Desk, explores the problem caused by low ID match rates and the feasibility of using unified solutions to solve this issue. The problem [...]
As Programmatic Moves from Adolescence to Adulthood, What’s the Role of Private Marketplaces?
Private marketplaces (PMPs) have played a key role in the programmatic industry thus far, ensuring brand safety for publishers whilst taking advantage of the growing market. However, with increasing trust in the open market and regulatory maturity, will PMPs retain their status going forward? In this piece for ExchangeWire, Moti Tal (pictured below), CTO & co-founder at Simplaex, discusses the position of private marketplaces in today’s programmatic environment and how the ad-tech market of the future may be shaped. PMPs in [...]
5 Parallels Between Brexit & Business Transformation
Brexit: the sluggish juggernaut of ongoing news, parliamentary faff, and constant debate. However, there is a general consensus on both sides of the leave/remain argument that something needed to change in terms of the relationship between the UK and the EU. Digital transformation echos these traits in that businesses are aware that changes need to be made, but are uncertain of how to proceed. In this exclusive piece for ExchangeWire, Shula Sinclair (pictured below), global head of strategy at Spark Foundry [...]
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