Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report: Video ad engagement rises in the UK

Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report: Video ad engagement rises in the UK

UK desktop video ad viewability rose by 7.9 percentage points during 2017, driven by a narrowing performance gap between programmatic and publisher direct trading, according to new research. The latest Integral Ad Science Media Quality Report highlights the state of viewability, brand safety, and ad fraud within the UK digital advertising industry The H2 2017 report highlights […]

UK marketers will spend more than £3bn on social network ads in 2018, according to eMarketer

UK marketers will spend more than £3bn on social network ads in 2018, according to eMarketer

One-fourth of all UK digital ad spending is set to go to social networks this year as marketers increase their spending on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat to over £3bn. According to eMarketer, UK marketers will spend £3.3bn on social network advertising this year, up 24 per cent from 2017. This forecast has been […]

Google buys GIF-sharing app Tenor

Google buys GIF-sharing app Tenor

Google agreed to buy Tenor, a four-year old startup that helps advertisers run mobile ad campaigns that feature GIFs, or short video clips that run on a loop, per a blog post. About 300 million people a month use Tenor’s platform for Android, iOS and desktop to find GIFs to copy into messages or to […]

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune in to the World Cup, according to GlobalWebIndex

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune in to the World Cup, according to GlobalWebIndex

Almost half the world’s online population plans to tune into the Fifa World Cup in Russia according to research from GlobalWebIndex. The company surveyed 80,267 people from more than 40 leading markets, finding numerous insights for marketers to capitalise on. Notably, 47% of the online population plans to watch the Fifa World Cup this summer. […]

Advertisers invest $63bn in programmatic buying but industry concerns loom large, according to WARC

Advertisers invest $63bn in programmatic buying but industry concerns loom large, according to WARC

WARC, the international authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report, digesting up-to-date insights and evidenced thinking from the worldwide advertising industry. Threats to the digital advertising ecosystem is the focus of the latest report. WARC estimates that $63.4bn was spent on programmatic advertising worldwide last year, but […]

Almost 40% of video ads were viewed to completion in the second half of 2017, according to Integral Ad Science

Almost 40% of video ads were viewed to completion in the second half of 2017, according to Integral Ad Science

37.9 per cent of all video ad inventory across all channels was viewed until completion in the second half of 2017, according to the latest report from measurement and analytics company Integral Ad Science (IAS). On mobile web video, viewability increased across all quartiles, improving from 31.6 per cent in H1 2017 to 41.4 per […]

Advertisers invest more in digital to drive brand growth, according to Zenith

Advertisers invest more in digital to drive brand growth, according to Zenith

Amid growing industry speculation about cuts to digital advertising budgets, Zenith has found no evidence that advertisers as a whole are shifting budgets away from online advertising – in fact, its share of global advertising expenditure continues to rise rapidly. Zenith forecasts that advertisers will spend 40.2% of their budgets on online advertising this year, […]

Alibaba-backed Lazada extends its eCommerce lead in Malaysia, according to iPrice Group

Alibaba-backed Lazada extends its eCommerce lead in Malaysia, according to iPrice Group

Latest figures by the Department of Statistics Malaysia indicate the digital economy has contributed 18.2% to the Malaysia’s GDP, amounting as much as RM290.9b in 2016. Since then, eCommerce has continued to grow at a rapid rate as both government and private sectors continued to heavily invest into the digital industry. To keep track of […]

Mobile creative powered by location drives double the consumer engagement, according to Verve

Mobile creative powered by location drives double the consumer engagement, according to Verve

Research undertaken by Verve, a location based mobile marketing platform, finds that consumers are twice as likely to interact with mobile ads informed by location insights than with generic ads. The findings also reveal that a mobile ad related to consumers’ hobbies and interests drives more than twice as much engagement than with a generic […]

1 35 36 37 38 39 71