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 [...]

The direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model is something on most retailers' minds at the moment. Here, we talk with Liam Brennan, global director of innovation, MediaCom, to discuss how seriously traditional brands should be taking the DTC revolution, how best to incorporate it [...]

In this edition of Weekly Focus APAC: SEA E-Commerce Market to Hit £17.92bn; Mobile to Outpace Desktop Online Sales; Carousell Deploys Visa Sensory Payment Technology; and Global Trade Wars Threat to APAC Economic Growth. SEA E-Commerce Market to hit £17.92bn The [...]

This week UK monetisation outfit Admix revealed that it had secured an impressive USD$2.1m (£1.63m) in funding to further develop its AR and VR advertising platform. As reported by Tech.EU, Admix was only founded in 2017, with a focus on allowing [...]

You don't need to be a devoted games industry observer to have noticed something of the recent rise of eSports. Organised competitive gaming has been around along time, of course. eSports' nascent form was forged in the earliest arcade gaming tournaments [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – and in this edition: eBay Advertising Announces New Offer to Boost ‘Shopper Insights & Influence’; Travel Tech Company Sojern Announces Financing [...]

In this edition of Weekly Focus APAC: JD.com Flies with Tianjin Air into Cargo Air Freight; Razer Pay to Launch in Singapore with Nets Partnership; Shopee Basks in 11.11 Shopping Glow; Visa Brings 'Everywhere' to Singapore in Search of Commerce [...]

Alibaba Group has chalked up ¥213.5bn (£23.81bn) of gross merchandise volume (GMV) on its annual 11 November Singles Day Shopping Festival, crossing one billion in delivery orders for the first time this year. Also coined '11.11', the event marked its [...]