This article was originally published in The Wall Street Journal. Ad-tech company MediaMath has raised $225 million from investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners. New York-based MediaMath has raised more than $500 million to date. The latest round values the company at north of $1 billion. MediaMath operates a demand-side platform, or DSP — technology that lets… Read More News: MediaMath raises $225 million
IAB’s #Blockchain for #Video Advertising Whitepaper details how this new technology will revolutionize the digital advertising supply chain. Read more in this Forbes article. The whitepaper can be downloaded from here.
Amobee – a leading global digital marketing technology company serving brands, agencies and trading desks – and AMNET France today announced the influential trading desk has become the first in Europe to seamlessly activate programmatic media buying over Amobee’s self-service DSP with integrated audience buying across programmatic and social. Through the strategic collaboration with Amobee,… Read More Amobee and AMNET France Announce Strategic Collaboration on Programmatic Buying
Denstu Aegis Network (DAN) and Index Exchange have penned an agreement that will see holding group target up to 242 million US internet users on premium websites using the programmatic outfit’s technology. The partnership means DAN’s clients can plan, buy and measure campaigns via private marketplaces (PMP) using its proprietary people-based IDs via its M1… Read More Dentsu Aegis Network and Index Exchange tie-up for ‘people-based marketing’
IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report 2017: Digital Ad Spend Reaches an all-time High of $88 Billion in 2017 with Mobile accounting for 57% of Revenue Total U.S. digital ad spend reached a record-setting $88 billion last year, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and… Read More Digital Ad Spend Reaches an All-Time High of $88 Billion in 2017 – IAB Ad Revenue Report 2017
According to eMarketer, video viewing, including both linear TV & Digital Video accounted for an average of 5 hours a day among U.S. adults in 2017. Here is how to take advantage of Digital Video in a new IAB Video Creative Innovation Whitepaper: https://www.iab.com/news/video-creative-innovation/ IAB’s Video Ad Innovation Survey 2018 finds 88% of publishers, 77% of brands/agencies, and 76%… Read More Video Creative Innovation for 21st Century Brand Building – A new Whitepaper by IAB
Drawbridge, one of the last major cross-device indies, is selling its US media business to location data platform Gimbal, shutting down its self-serve ad platform and getting out of the advertising biz, as published by AdExchanger here: https://adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/drawbridge-sells-its-media-arm-and-exits-ad-tech/
The World Economic Forum recently published a whitepaper: Blockchain Beyond the Hype, a practical framework for business leaders. These 11 questions will help you make a quick initial assessment of whether blockchain is the right solution for the problem you are facing. Great decision making model and framework by The World Economic Forum. The below… Read More Is Blockchain the right solution for the problem you’re facing? Find out…
As published by IAB UK: https://www.iabuk.com/press-release/smartphone-video-fastest-growing-online-ad-format Smartphone video is fastest growing online ad format Near half-billion £ rise on smartphone video ads a key factor as phones overtake computers for internet time. Advertisers spent £476 million more on smartphone video ads in 2017, making it the fastest-growing online ad format, according to the latest Digital… Read More Smartphone video is fastest growing online ad format
Scott Brinker unveils his most populous Marketing Technology Landscape yet. At this rate, we’re soon going to need microscopes to keep up with the evolution of the martech ecosystem 🙂 The 2017 ‘Martech 5000’ Marketing Technology Landscape. Almost 5,000 companies are now part of the marketing technology landscape, a huge leap from the 150 itemized… Read More Most populous Marketing Technology Landscape yet – 2017 MarTech 5000
This helps implementing GDPR. IAB Europe and IAB Technology Laboratory released the market-ready technical specifications for the Transparency & Consent Framework (“Framework”) following a 30-day public consultation in March and April 2018. The official release version of the standard reflects extensive feedback from publishers, agencies, and ad tech companies collected during the consultation period. As with all… Read More IAB Europe and IAB Tech Lab Release Cross-Industry Transparency & Consent Framework For Adoption
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