SpotX Releases New ‘Global TV and Video Trends’ White Paper

SpotX Releases New ‘Global TV and Video Trends’ White Paper

SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, released a new white paper exploring the evolution of TV and digital video. Based on intelligence from select industry reports, the white paper entitled, “Global TV and Video: Five Trends Contributing To The Continued Rise of Digital” concludes that traditional methods of TV viewing remain popular due […]

Tencent Video crowned as market leader in China, beating out Youku and iQiyi

Tencent Video crowned as market leader in China, beating out Youku and iQiyi

Tencent Video has been named the leader in China’s subscription over-the-top (OTT) video market, beating out rivals like Baidu’s iQiyi and Alibaba’s Youku. According to figures released by eMarketer, 24% of digital video viewers in China will subscribe to Tencent Video in 2018, and is set to surpass 29% by 2020. Meanwhile, Youku’s subscriber base […]

OTT video numbers rising as consumers cut the cord, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast

OTT video numbers rising as consumers cut the cord, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast

Almost 765m people worldwide will use a subscription over-the-top (OTT) video service at least once per month in 2018, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast. This total will represent 10.2 per cent of the global population and 32.1 per cent of digital video viewers worldwide. The analyst estimates the global subscription OTT market will grow by 24 per […]

Tremor Video DSP and Cuebiq exclusively partner for industry’s first geo-behavioral targeting on Connected TV

Tremor Video DSP and Cuebiq exclusively partner for industry’s first geo-behavioral targeting on Connected TV

Tremor Video DSP, a leading programmatic video platform, and Cuebiq, a next generation location intelligence and measurement company, have announced their exclusive partnership to deliver the industry’s first geo-behavioral targeting solution on over-the-top (OTT) devices. As part of a preferred partnership, MullenLowe Mediahub will be the first agency to execute this innovative audience hyper-targeting for […]

SpotX will now use Nielsen connected TV data to measure campaigns

SpotX will now use Nielsen connected TV data to measure campaigns

Supply side ad platform SpotX said it will be using Nielsen audience data for connected TV to evaluate ad campaigns that buy spots in programming on both traditional TV and over-the-top programming. With viewing through connected devices rising, SpotX said it is increasingly important for advertisers to understand their total campaign audience. SpotX will take […]

Middle East and Africa see growth in average monthly mobile minutes of use per subscriber, says GlobalData

Middle East and Africa see growth in average monthly mobile minutes of use per subscriber, says GlobalData

The average monthly mobile voice usage per subscriber in the Middle East and Africa will remain stable in 2018, despite the growing adoption of over-the-top (OTT) voice applications such as Skype, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. OTT voice applications can have a negative impact on telecom operators’ […]

IAB sees blockchain as a ‘natural fit’ for digital video advertising

IAB sees blockchain as a ‘natural fit’ for digital video advertising

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released a white paper stating that blockchain technology is a “natural fit” for the video advertising supply chain, saying that it sees strong use cases for blockchain in digital video advertising. IAB acknowledged that cryptocurrencies have generated a lot of hype around the tech, but concluded that blockchain could […]