The IPA released its latest Bellwether report on 16 January, with headline news that the growth of UK marketing budget flatlined in Q4 2018, amidst heightened business uncertainty, following six years of consecutive growth. Is this being caused by Brexit [...]

In this edition of Weekly Focus APAC: Security Fear Drives APAC Retailers Away From Digital; Singapore Online Firms Find Globalisation Tougher Now; Alibaba Puts Genie in BMW Partnership; and Citi Partners with MoneyBack to Offer Retail Conversion Programme in HK. Security [...]

If you aren't bored of 2019 predictions by this point, here are some from Jay Friedman (pictured below), president, Goodway Group, for those on the ground, working within day-to-day campaign planning and operations.  I’ve seen all the big predictions pieces. “CX [...]

In his latest piece, exclusively for ExchangeWire, Dr Augustine Fou, cybersecurity and ad fraud researcher, explains the many reasons that mobile is such a cybersecurity headache that continues to fly under the radar. I woke up in a cold sweat, my [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – and in this edition: First Analysis of European Anti-fraud Efforts Shows 94% Fraud Reduction in Tag-Certified Channels; Akamai Acquires Janrain Inc.; RTL Group [...]

When it comes down to it, some things are done a certain way because it just makes sense – whether that’s because it’s simpler, or because it produces better results: socks before shoes. Dinner before dessert. Tea before milk – [...]

China may be the world's biggest game market, with regard to user numbers and revenues, but for many months the nation's Government had declined to approve a single new game. That all changed in recent days. As reported by the South [...]

In this edition of Weekly Focus APAC: E-Commerce Drives China Mobile Payments Services; JD.com Unveils Autonomous Delivery Stations; Didi Launches In-App Financial Services; and Singapore C2C Retail Platform Appoints Senior Execs. E-commerce Drives China Mobile Payments Services China's mobile payments services market [...]