81% of retail marketers wish to automate at least part of the creation and delivery of social advertisements in the New Year Smartly.io, the leading social advertising automation platform for designers and performance marketers,  announced new research outlining how retail organizations are spending their marketing dollars on social media advertising. Based on a survey of 300 senior marketing executives from retail organizations around the world, the report examines year-over-year findings while also exploring new topics to…

Brands must shift attention to RCS to avoid wasting a staggering $917.2 billion in digital media budget by 2028 Brands will waste 99.9% of digital advertising spend on digital banners, this is according to the findings of an independent report published by business messaging intelligence experts, Mobilesquared. This highlights the extremely poor return on investment achieved by digital banner advertising today—for every $1 million invested, just 0.1%, or $1,000 derives value for brands, resulting in $999,000 being wasted by…

Nielsen announced that it is augmenting the U.S. digital capabilities of Nielsen Ad Intel, a market-leading advertising intelligence solution. As part of the enhancements, Ad Intel is expanding its digital footprint by launching search data as a new media type and offering more robust, relevant, and richer digital advertising data first for existing mobile, desktop, display, and video placements and in the future, for social and in-app platforms. The breadth and depth of the solution enable an increased level of measurement…

Most Small Businesses Are Prioritizing Advertising This Year and Will Increase Spending on Social Media Advertising (56%) and Other Online Advertising Mediums Such as Google Search and Banner Ads (41%) Nearly all small businesses (91%) plan to invest more in advertising in 2019, according to a new survey from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website. Annually, more than half of small businesses (57%) spend less than $50,000 on advertising, the survey found. Increased spending on advertising will help small…

Most Small Businesses Are Prioritizing Advertising This Year and Will Increase Spending on Social Media Advertising (56%) and Other Online Advertising Mediums Such as Google Search and Banner Ads (41%) Nearly all small businesses (91%) plan to invest more in advertising in 2019, according to a new survey from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website. Annually, more than half of small businesses (57%) spend less than $50,000 on advertising, the survey found. Increased spending on advertising will help small…

Dosh, the fastest growing fintech app, announced it has closed a $40 million Series B financing round, including $20 million in equity and $20 million in venture debt. The financing was led by Goodwater Capital and Western Technology Investment (WTI), with participation from investors PayPal, BAM Capital and Anthem Venture Partners. In 2019, much of the $231 billion advertising spend will be wasted due to no attribution. Dosh brings a dramatic shift in how merchants spend advertising dollars by giving them a new way to…

Data from the Leading Global Ad Sales Platform Helps Media Companies Improve Bottom Line with Actionable Insights into Advertising Spend Matrix Solutions, the only global ad sales platform built for media, has announced its first annual Advertising Spend Report – providing insights derived from the activity of more than 10,000 active users within media ad sales teams from 2016 to 2017. Having managed more than $12.5 billion in media ad revenue in 2016, alone, Matrix Solutions is the only company exclusively focused on…

When total spending on Amazon Ads hit $10 billion in 2019, it wasn’t just a testament to the massive size of America’s largest online marketplace. Amazon Advertising - formerly known as AMS - allows businesses the tools they need to optimize their marketing strategy within the E-retailers' massive search engine. Yet there’s a gulf between marketers spending too much or too little on pay-per-click (PPC) ads, and those who’ve reaped the benefits for a strong ROI. Some of this knowledge is built on trial-and-error, finding…

The global internet advertising market size is expected to retain a high CAGR throughout the forecast period. Increase in online spending and budgeting for ad video production have resulted in a high market growth. Digital disruption is causing e-commerce companies to become more specialized in their domain as new market entrants are making moves to enhance their ad revenues by undertaking a strategic approach to leverage their market position. Widened scope of E-commerce and digital platforms with customized ad features…

Analysis from the UK's largest native advertising platform ADYOULIKE for the period March to mid-April reveals key ad spend trends during the COVID-19 crisis. The first in a regular series of COVID-19 Advertising Barometer data reports to be published by ADYOULIKE looking at the state of the UK ad market during the crisis. ADYOULIKE, which integrates directly with the UK's leading news publishers, including titles such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, The Sun, Daily Mail, The Telegraph & more – and has…

Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, today announced the release of its latest report, Programmatic Ad Spend in the Age of COVID-19: Mobile App Advertising, an analysis of how U.S. programmatic advertisers reallocated investments in March 2020 in response to the crisis. Marketing Technology News: Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19 at TrackMyTemp Key Findings: Programmatic mobile in-app ad spend drops 14% in March 2020 Mobile ad spend: Mobile in-app ad spend decreased 14% in March…

Video advertising platform Unruly today released a study that investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting consumer interests and behaviors. Unruly, which is part of Tremor International, surveyed a total of 2,556 consumers globally in late March 2020 for this study. Results revealed that overall time spent online has dramatically increased in the US -- with consumers spending a lot more time than before on their mobile phones (50%), connected TVs (42%) and laptops (35%). Additionally, consumers are spending more time…

Dynamic Audiences Enables Marketers to Automate Advertising and Marketing Campaigns, Saving Time and Money Demandbase, the leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), announced the availability of Dynamic Audiences feature to its flagship ABM Platform, enabling B2B marketers to automate their advertising and marketing campaigns. Dynamic Audiences empowers marketers to optimize their ABM strategy by automatically updating campaign audiences with the most relevant target accounts, based on CRM updates, recent offsite intent…

The Outlook for Data Driven Advertising & Marketing 2020 Sees “High Probability for Solid Growth”; Research Reviews the Trends Shaping the Landscape This Year Winterberry Group, a specialist management consultancy that supports growth initiatives in advertising, marketing, media, information and technology, today released new research: “The Outlook for Data Driven Advertising & Marketing 2020.” The annual research led by Bruce Biegel, senior managing partner of Winterberry Group, provides the spending forecasts…

New Technology Uses Multi-Touch Attribution to Predict and Maximize Conversions G5, the leader in real estate marketing optimization, is launching Cross-Channel Spend Optimizer that improves digital advertising performance up to 25% and reduces cost-per-click by as much as 15%. An integral part of G5 Smart Digital Advertising, Cross-Channel Spend Optimizer uses advanced multi-touch attribution (MTA) to predict best advertising outcomes and automatically allocate daily ad investments across the campaigns, networks and…

Smartphone Accounts for More Than Half of All Digital Ad Spend 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 the first time ever, ad spend on smartphones has exceeded desktop accounting for 51 percent of the…

As stated in a 2019 Forrester report, advertising is facing an “existential need for change,” having unwillingly surrendered its once leading role in understanding consumer culture to Big Tech. With third-party cookies crumbling and first-party data becoming more important again, now, advertisers and their agencies have a unique opportunity to regain some control and more effectively market to prospective and existing customers. Unfortunately, most of the industry concerns revolve around the following questions, or…

The platform allows advertisers to identify media inventory suppliers that meet their quality standards for consumer privacy Sourcepoint, the data privacy software company of record for the digital marketing ecosystem, today announces the launch of Privacy Lens to provide compliance and data ethics visibility for advertisers. The first privacy measurement and analytics platform in the market, Privacy Lens allows advertisers to set their own unique data privacy parameters and evaluate inventory sources to…

Penguin Random House is the First Brand to Join Multicultural Publisher Marketplace with Nearly 1,000 Publishers MediaMath, acclaimed independent advertising technology company for leading brands and agencies, announced the expansion of its Purpose-Driven Advertising initiative via its Multicultural Marketplace. The Marketplace is designed to activate advertising spends on nearly 1,000 multicultural publishers that are either owned by or focused on building content for People of Color. The Marketplace has enabled brands and…

Strengthens Robotic Process Automation in Basis, Centro’s Omnichannel Ad Management Platform Centro, a global provider of enterprise automation technology, announced the acquisition of QuanticMind, a developer of predictive advertising technology for digital channels. QuanticMind’s martech platform utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to unify and analyze data, which powers its software for search, keyword bid management, and marketing intelligence visualization. Basis, Centro’s flagship automation…