69% of digital media will be programmatic in 2020 – Zenith’ Programmatic Marketing Forecasts

Programmatic adspend to exceed US$100bn for the first time in 2019

69% of digital media will be programmatic in 2020 – Zenith’ Programmatic Marketing Forecasts

  While programmatic continues to rise, its adspend growth is slowing due to industry challenges of privacy and supply-chain that must be addressed to resume faster growth   Brands need to develop new targeting techniques using first-party data and customer data platforms in response to the ongoing death of the cookieUK-specific:   We forecast continued […]

New IAB UK / PwC Adspend study reveals total UK digital ad market worth £13.44BN in 2018

New IAB UK / PwC Adspend study reveals total UK digital ad market worth £13.44BN in 2018

IAB UK, the trade association for digital advertising, has announced the results of the latest IAB UK and PwC Digital Adspend study, which reveals UK advertisers spent £13.44billion on digital advertising in 2018. The total ad spend figure is a 15 percent year-on-year increase and demonstrates continued confidence in the power of digital advertising. For […]

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, […]

Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent set to dominate programmatic ad spend in China

Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent set to dominate programmatic ad spend in China

Chinese Internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) will account for the lion share of programmatic expenditures in China as advertisers are predicted to invest $22.81 billion on programmatic digital display ads this year in the Asian country, with mobile accounting for 83.7% of that total. This is according to eMarketer’s latest forecast of programmatic […]

Teads, Viant, Verve comment on the IAB ad spend report

Teads, Viant, Verve comment on the IAB ad spend report

The latest Internet Advertising Bureau UK / PwC Digital Adspend report was released today! Lovely Mobile News ( LMN)  has the expert opinion of Adtech Leaders: Ian James, GM International, Verve “With the release of the latest IAB ad spend results, there is no doubt that mobile is the fastest growing area of digital spend. Location based […]

Mobile driving UK digital ad spend past the £10bn threshold

Mobile driving UK digital ad spend past the £10bn threshold

Digital ad spend in the UK increased by 17% in 2016 to reach £10.3bn – the fastest growth rate in the industry in nine years. The reason attributed to this? Mobile. As we become a constantly connected society, mobile is becoming consumers’ default and often primary, gateway to the internet. According to the Internet Advertising […]

Unilever: syncing mobile ads to corresponding TV campaigns increases awareness

Unilever: syncing mobile ads to corresponding TV campaigns increases awareness

Unilever has teamed up with InMobi and Mindshare to unveil research that shows how mobile adverts targeting consumers that have seen the corresponding TV ad is more likely to result in post awareness metrics. Using the Pond brand, the experiment discovered that TV is still top when it comes to reaching consumers and boosting awareness. […]

With consumers glued to their smartphones, mobile ad budgets are soaring

With consumers glued to their smartphones, mobile ad budgets are soaring

Reading this on your smartphone? Company advertising departments will be pleasantly unsurprised. Consumers’ obsession with their smartphones meant that firms increased their mobile advertising budgets by 56 per cent year-on-year to £1.7bn in the first half of 2016. This means that 36p in every £1 spent on internet advertising now goes on phones, up from […]

Mobile video jumps 39% to become dominant viewing platform

Mobile video jumps 39% to become dominant viewing platform

Mobile devices will become the main platform globally for viewing online video in 2016, according to the latest forecast from ZenithOptimedia. The Publicis Groupe media agency’s Online Video Forecasts 2016, says consumers around the world will spend an average of 19.7 minutes a day viewing online videos on smartphones and tablet computers. This compares to […]