Four out of five (82%) advertisers said mobile device identifiers, which are used to pinpoint specific smartphone users, are important for ad targeting, but 53% said privacy implications are an “urgent issue,” per a study by Advertiser Perceptions. In addition, 50% of advertisers said online fraud will significantly affect their mobile ad spending, per the […]
AdLedger, the non-profit research and development consortium, is joining forces with IBM and online news outlet Salon Media for a proof of concept blockchain project. The project leverages a shared ledger to deliver on blockchain’s promise to bring transparency to advertising. The ledger acts as a trailing audit, ensuring optimal yield management and ROI for […]
Five months after launching in the US, Bloomberg’s TicToc is ready for advertisers in the APAC region. With over 1 million daily active readers and seven founding advertisers, the platform aims to marry the real-time nature of Twitter with the quality journalism of Bloomberg. Over 2,000 journalists from Bloomberg supply journalism to the platform in […]
Snapchat is rolling out a new ‘shoppable’ augmented reality (AR) Lens feature for advertisers around the world. Shoppable AR Lenses serve as an extension of sorts to Snapchat’s existing shoppable ads that allow marketers to engage with potential customers natively through Snapchat. Back in 2015, Snap rolled out its machine learning-based Lenses feature that allowed […]
Video advertising marketplace Teads has announced that its reach across quality publishers in the UK has grown by 32% in the past three years. Now reaching 43.2 million people – 90% of the online UK population. This is now the broadest reach of consumers across the comScore 100, the official reach ranking of UK media […]
Mobile advertising firm InMobi has signed an exclusive monetization partnership with Airtel TV. This partnership comes nearly seven months after InMobi had announced a similar deal with Airtel’s music streaming app Wynk Music. InMobi said this partnership will enable brands to get access to premium ad inventory on the Airtel TV mobile app that offers […]
Fyber, a programmatic trading technology platform, announced that it has enriched its data-driven segmentation platform, Audience Vault, with demographic, interest and audience data from the Nielsen Marketing Cloud, location data for offline activities from PlaceIQ, and mobile app audience measurements from Mobilewalla. This information is automatically imported into Audience Vault, enabling publishers to create custom […]
Exchange Bidding, Google‘s header bidding platform, has exited beta. According to Google, publishers that use DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) will be able to use the platform to increase overall revenue by allowing multiple exchanges to bid on a placement while generating reports on demand channels, yield groups, and advertisers on the basis of impressions. A […]
Mobile-native ad tech company S4M has teamed up with Adsquare, a mobile data exchange, to enable targeting and measurement capabilities within physical stores. The integration will give advertisers access to hourly updates about incremental store visits generated by their mobile campaigns in S4M’s Fusio dashboard. In addition, retailers and trading desks are able to optimise […]
Native advertising platform TripleLift has debuted the first scalable, programmatic branded content solution – ContentDial. ContentDial informs and scales data-based content strategies for brands and advertisers who are working with multiple publishing partners across a variety of owned and operated sites, as well as social pages, by leveraging real-time data and technology. ”With ContentDial, marketers […]