RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Contactless Adoption High Despite Concerns; Brands Need Clarity Around Consumer Data; Smart Speaker Ownership Doubles in 6 Months. Contactless Adoption High Despite Concerns Almost half [...]

Trust and transparency – two words that have kept the industry focused on developing a sustainable ecosystem that serves all players fairly. Stemming from brand-safety scandals, ad-fraud discoveries, and viewability concerns, ad tech has seen it all in the past [...]

Whether it’s in-store, on their laptops, or through their mobiles, consumers expect an increasingly personalised shopping experience. In this Q&A with Jens Vang Lauridsen, vice president EMEA sales, Monetate, he explains why personalisation is a necessity, whether retailers are paying [...]

M&A is a massive part of today’s retail landscape; and in the UK this hasn’t got much bigger than Sainsbury’s 2016 takeover of Argos’ parent company Home Retail Group. RetailTechNews caught up with George Goley, CTO, Sainsbury’s-Argos recently at FUTR2020, [...]

Blockchain's foothold in the digital advertising space is getting stronger. In this Q&A, ExchangeWire talks to Charles Manning (pictured below), CEO of mobile ad analytics company Kochava, whose independent blockchain platform XCHNG seeks to tokenise the insertion order and cut out [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: SPH Looks to Digital As 1H 2018 Falls Flat; M&C Saatchi Acquires India Creative Agency; Mediacorp Folds [...]

This week, the spotlight is on marketers and the need for them to work within Southeast Asia's expanding digital ecosystem, the growth of which is fuelled by Chinese investors and increasing use of e-commerce platforms and mobile payments. China's tech giants [...]

Marketers in China need to consider 'seamless' user experiences and ensure their ads are appropriately designed to meet local market conditions and demands. The fragmented Android app store environment, for instance, means developers need to spend more effort building apps [...]

The pace of change in retail is continuing to gather relentless momentum. RetailTechNews spoke to John Zealley (pictured below), senior managing director and industry lead, consumer goods and services, Accenture, during FUTR2020 to outline some of the biggest changes in retail and what retailers [...]

The London Media Exchange (LMX) announces it has entered into a partnership with Ternio, to provide verification and transparency into media costs. LMX, the first European forwards and options market, is partnering with the blockchain-based transparency solution for programmatic advertising to evaluate [...]