The IPA Bellwether Q4 2019 Report, released today 15th January 2020, has revealed a 4% overall increase in marketing budgets, the first such increase since the first quarter of the year. Growth is anticipated to accelerate through 2020 as the business cycle recovers from its current soft spell. Report highlights – Bullish expectations for marketing in 2020-2021 as a result of diminishing political and business uncertainties. – Internet advertising again cited as the primary driver of overall growth in marketing spend, with budgets [...]

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We will be hosting our first event in the Nordics in over eight years on Tuesday, 19th February. ATS Stockholm will focus on the key areas affecting the industry as we head into an uncertain decade for digital marketing. Are we pivoting from precision to predictive marketing? Is the industry ready to look beyond the cookie? And what future can digital media buyers and sellers expect. With all that in mind I have outlined seven key reasons to come this year’s [...]

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As we enter 2020, ExchangeWire speaks to Reprise to discuss their predictions for the digital landscape for the year ahead. The future of 5GA key technology for 2020 is the much-anticipated 5G network, which will be particularly impactful on the Internet of Things and consumer-facing technology. Promises of connection speeds at least 20 times quicker than 4G, reduced latency and the ability to connect more devices will mean a shift to a more mobile, more connected world. Coupled with advances in AI, [...]

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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: Tremor International acquires Unruly; IAB UK sets out actions to address ICO’s RTB concerns; PubMatic launches Identity Hub; S4Capital merges with Circus Marketing; Ebiquity acquires Digital Decisions. Tremor International acquires Unruly Tremor International Ltd has announced that it has reached an agreement with News Corp to acquire Unruly, News Corp’s programmatic video marketplace. The transaction is expected to be financially beneficial [...]

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Dan Larden (pictured below), managing partner, product and partnerships, Infectious Media, exclusively covers the latest browser initiative set to take a bite out of the third-party cookie: Chrome’s enforcement of the SameSite cookie attribute. The February 2020 enforcement of the SameSite cookie attribute on Chrome has the potential to break adtech in the short term, as many companies are not prepared for this change. But as it allows Google to give users the power to cleanly block tracking cookies, it may [...]

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In this exclusive article written for ExchangeWire, Alistair MacCallum (pictured below), CEO of Kinetic UK, discusses the reasons for optimism in the out-of-home (OOH) sector through 2020, how traditional platforms are set to integrate with OOH channels, and how programmatic technology can further enhance effectiveness and relevance within the medium. There are so many reasons for optimism in the OOH industry it’s hard to know where to start. Despite the dominance of the global tech companies across huge swathes of the [...]

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Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire in response to Ciaran O’Kane’s twenty predictions for 2020, Robert Webster (pictured below), founder of Canton Marketing Solutions, delves further into the Programmatic is Everything (PIE) theory, which is poised to dominate marketing over the coming decade. My favourite of Ciaran’s 2020 predictions was the statement that programmatic is everything. This is partly because I think it was over a pint with him that the phrase finally took hold. Not that I am trying to claim ownership, [...]

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