Q1 was the busiest quarter for martech Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals on record. Private equity investment in adtech grows to 15% in Q2. Results International, specialist technology advisor on M&A and fundraising to the global marketing, technology and healthcare sectors, revealed figures for adtech and martech M&A for the first half of 2017. At 217 deals, the […]
Ad viewability levels in the UK rose for the first time in nine months to the highest level seen for over a year, according to the latest quarterly benchmark report from ad verification company Meetrics. In the second quarter of 2017, the proportion of banner ads served that met minimum viewability guidelines rose from 47% […]
Mobile advertisement firm Adplay has introduced a number of new features designed to improve the experience of advertising on mobile platforms. The company said that as mobile advertising becomes the main channel for digital ad spending, it is increasingly important to engage audiences in new ways, breaking away from the traditional banner ad. The new […]
YouTube’s ad-free subscription version, Red which enables people to pay to remove ads, is set to merge with Google Play Music to create a new music streaming service. The merger, which was revealed by YouTube’s head of music Lyor Cohen at a conference in New York, has long been on the cards since Google combined the […]
Ford is the first brand to take advantage of a combined offering between Primesight and RadiumOne that integrates out-of-home and mobile advertising so that advertisers can target people based on both their location and their content sharing behaviour. Ford is promoting its new Fiesta – the UK’s best-selling car – whereby whenever the target audience […]
Facebook’s profits climbed 71% to $3.9bn (£3bn) in the second quarter of 2017, boosted by an increase in sales of mobile video adverts, figures show. The social media giant exceeded market expectations, posting a 45% increase in revenue for the three months to June of this year to $9.3bn (£7.1bn), compared with $6.4bn (£4.9bn) for […]
UK advertising expenditure grew 1.3% year-on-year in Q1 2017 to reach £5,318m – the 15th consecutive quarter of growth but the slowest rate in almost four years, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on July 27. Overall market growth occurred despite a drop of -6.2% in total television advertising, its steepest fall since 2009. […]
Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) announced the evolution of its RADAR suite of Out-of-Home (OOH) advanced advertising platform with the addition of Cuebiq’s location intelligence and attribution solutions, which leverage the largest source of accurate location data in the US The new agreement enables CCO RADAR to tap into Cuebiq’s location insights and footfall attribution analysis, based on […]
Advertising is the lifeblood of the internet. Google parent company Alphabet makes more money from digital ads than any company on the planet — it’s expected to make $73.8 billion dollars in net digital ad sales in 2017 after subtracting for traffic acquisition costs, according to internet research firm eMarketer. Google represents 33 percent of the […]
Men are more responsive to online ads than women, according to an eye-tracking study by picture provider Shutterstock. The study, carried out by eye-tracking specialists Lumen, found that simple image-led online ads which mirror the demographic profile of their target audience perform best. Males looked at the ads for 0.4 seconds longer than females (0.9 […]